. >> and i am derek mcginty. we are not expecting lot of snow but harsh experience taught us when it comes in the early morning, it doesn't take much. that is why tomorrow the yellow alert day, right? top? >> yes. as cold as it will be by morning, it will be slippery quickly. to that fact weather advisories have been issued for the entire metro area between 4:00 and noon tomorrow. montgomery county and the southern half of louden county east of 15 toward fairfax, arlington and southern halloween into charles county and prince georges county and extended to calvert and st. marys before all is said and done. how much will fall? well, south of 50 and east and south of 95 will be the bull's eye. flurries toward frederick and leesburg and hagerstown. we will talk about how cold it will be and how long the snow will stay and what that means for the commute home tomorrow. >> thank you, top. we want to remind you our team of meteorologists and reporters are staying ahead of the nsa irweather. we will be tuning in a half

. >> and i'm derek mcginty. >> the family living inside a home tried to escape in their car but ha that had to be quickly bainded scott broom explains why. >> reporter: why the survivors said what looked like a puddle turned out to be a nearly bottomless pit this is the mendoza family waiting away after their car sank in to a sinkhole this morning at 4:00 a.m. while they were trying to flee the flood caused by a water main break here. 7-year-old may nor mom saying in spanish the family was trying to get out of the driveway after their basement apartment was flood. seven homes badly damaged by the flood, basements underwater, backyards, eroded like canyons. >> i couldn't believe it. i thought it was going to stop soon but it didn't, it kept coming. >> it's that time of year, we've had over 300 breaks in the system and climbing so it's probably attributed to the cold breaks any weakness. >> reporter: spokesman jerry irvine says this pipe, more than 90 years old it's been repaired and filled in. >> the water main break fixed around 1:00 and service restored to all 77 customers affected by

. >> i'm derek mcginty. let's get right to meteorologist topper shutt. folks having a wet ride home? >> especially east of town. thankfully the showers to the west are gone and moving through very quickly. we do have winter weather advisories in effect for the immediate metro area until 7 p.m. if you're in montgomery or fairfax or loudoun county, your rain, snow and sleet showers are over. in fact, here is the radar the past couple hours. you can see between 4:00 it was back toward leesburg and by 6:00 it's essentially through prince george's county headed to anne arundel and into the bay. we'll zoom in a bit. mainly rain down into southern maryland, a little sleet on either side of route 50 on your way to annapolis down toward shadyside and down toward upper marlboro a little sleet mixed in. still a wet commute in southern maryland, shadyside, north beat into huntingtown hundreding down route 2 leftover showers, but those will be gone in about end 20 minutes. 35 downtown, 34 in leesburg. we don't see any flash freezing tonight. wind chills tomorrow nigh

. >> i'm derek mcginty. loudoun, fairfax, prince william county schools operating on a two-hour delay tomorrow. >> let's get right to first alert chief meteorologist topper shutt. >> any flurries on forecast overnight, top? >> i think so, maybe even a snow shower. the good news, current temperatures, 26 downtown, that's as warm as it's been all day. temps have been steady or rising in the last few hours, up to 21 in gaithersburg, 23 in leesburg and manassas. on the futurecast by 6:00 temperatures in the 20s with clouds and then by 8:00 we're still 27 downtown with low to mid-20s in the burbs, not seeing any flecks of blues. there could be a couple flurries or a snow shower as the front goes through. 10:00 temperatures still in the 20s and by noon look at that. we're finally above freezing down town for the first four days. so wakeup weather looks like this, maybe a flurry at 5:00 and at 7:00. by 9:00 very cold but temperatures back into the 20s. we'll come back, talk about how cold it will be behind this fro

i'm derek mcginty. >> i'm jan jeffcoat. a 69-year-old gaithersburg woman is safe and in police custody tonight right where she's been for the past month. all the while police were helping to search for her. our mola lenghi is live in montgomery county with how they discovered where she was. >> reporter: police searched for a month before they finally found this missing woman sort of. turns out she was in their custody the entire time. this elizabeth betty jean queen. she was found this afternoon after being missing for nearly a month. we use found and missing loosely because queen was only thought to have been missing. while her family and police searched for her over the last month, it remember its out she was actually in police custody the entire time. >> some people may have known her as betty jean and others as betty. >> reporter: but for the last month montgomery county police knew her as jane smith. this seems to be where the problem began. police say queen, a diagnosed schizophrenic, was arrested for trespassing in s

. >> i'm derek mcginty. another burst of snow is expected tonight across our area. that's what could make for a really slippery morning commute. top is here to tell us exactly what to expect. >> temperatures in the 20s in the suburbs already. consequential we've extended our yellow alert and national weather service has issued a winter weather advisory until 10 a.m. on tuesday for just about the entire metro area. doesn't include our friends in culpeper and shenendoa valley. 1 to 2 inches in the immediate metro area between the beltway between now and 7 a.m. tomorrow morning. across the bay and on the western sliver of the bay maybe 2 to 4 inches. a little bit of moisture can wrap around the system. here's the radar. you can see it's beginning to fill in a little bit as the system begins to crank off the virginia beach coast and pushing moisture from the northwest northeast to the southwest and some of the snowfall showers and squalls are actually a little bit on the heavy side. the brighter the white you see the heavier activity the snow s. silver springs a little

. >> i'm derek mcginty. the man's name, christopher cornell, from ohio arrested for the attempted killing of a u.s. government officer and possession of a firearm in the further answer of attempted violence. the plot was to attack the u.s. capitol and it include guns and bombs and was stopped early on. according to this criminal complaint, cornell went on twitter last summer and posted statements, videos and other content supporting isis. in the fall a confidential fbi source made contact with cornell and they began going back and forth about this. when they met in november, cornell said he considered members of congress enemies and he was planning an attack on the capitol in d.c. he wanted himself and the source to detonate pipe bombs and then use guns to shoot officials and employees at the capitol. cornell also felt he had the authority from isis leaders to carry this out. he made his initial court appearance today in ohio. he's due back in court friday. we'll have live reaction from the capitol coming up

. >> i'm derek mcginty. >>> we begin with tense times at a big high school on the eastern shore. that is where racially charged hate images the instagram timelines to a lot of students there and we've learned of two vicious attacks caught on video. >> we are working with our colleagues to get to the bottom of these events. scott broom is live at the salisbury daily times to tell us what our team has learned. we must warn you some of the videos and language is disturbing. scott, what have you learned? >> reporter: well, it is disturbing. the videos you're about to see and the graphic instagram posts that were made that added fuel to the fire appear to show that there are racially motivated conflicts going on among at least some students at the steven decatur high school near ocean city, but not all students and administrators arrive at the same conclusion. again these images are graphic. this cell phone video captured a white student being attacked by two african american students in the hallway of steven decatur high school in berlin, maryland, january 21st. the n word is clearly

. >> and i'm derek mcginty. >>> the man under arrest for allegedly plotting a terror attack on the u.s. capitol. the suspect is a sympathizer with the islamic terrorist group isis. >> jims onman is live on capital -- jim osman is live on capitol hill with more on how the agents learned of his plot. >> reporter: here's the criminal complaint, seven pages in all we went through tonight and what we found is quite alarming. 20-year-old christopher cornell, the alleged plotter to pipe bombing the capitol and kill lawmakers, never made it out of ohio. >> when he came out the door, he was about halfway across here to where the cars are parked. by that time the agents had come across the parking lot and two agents were on top of him, two or three. >> reporter: cornell had exited a gun shop buying ammunition when the fbi apprehended him. the governor alleges cornell crafted an isis inspired plot. >> in a lot of these cases where a sting is used, you look at the perpetrator and they look like a juan in bee. that's probably -- a wannabe. that's probably, that. , true. >> reporter: -- that's proba

. >> i'm derek mcginty. the ntsb investigating the source of the smoke at l'enfant metro that sent the evening commute into chaos. look at this cell phone video. a smoke filled train coming your way courtesy of jonathan rogers here. he said he performed cpr for 20 minutes on the woman who died. several other passengers remain in critical condition tonight. >> we have live team coverage tonight with mola lenghi outside the l'enfant plaza tonight with a firsthand account from passengers. >> reporter: the green and yellow lines remain suspended tonight from l'enfant plaza. orange, silver and blue lines have been restored. the ntsb is investigating the smoke evacuation that left one person dead and scores of passengers injured. >> i was on the train and it just stopped and almost instantaneously just got full of smoke. >> reporter: as smoke filled the metro train and tunnel, passengers say the conductor urged them to remain calm. >> please stay calm. get off the platform at the fall plaza right now. >> people we

i'm derek mcginty. >> i'm jan jeffcoat. a tragic accident that happened at the worst possible time, those words tonight from an atf agent on the cause of the fire that claimed the life of an annapolis couple and their four grandchildren. >> our mola lenghi spoke with experts about how such a christmas tree could do such damage. >> reporter: oh, yeah. it can be difficult to imagine that the fire that torched a sex teen thousand square foot house and -- 16,000 square foot house and killed six people began with a christmas tree, but experts we spoke with tonight say they aren't surprised, that christmas trees can be extremely combustible. >> this was an accidental fire that's very tragic. >> reporter: accidental, tragic and fast. fire need two things, an ignition source and fuel. there was an electrical spark and a christmas tree to fuel the fire. >> doesn't take much ignition source, especially if the tree is very dry. >> the fuel from the christmas tree itself is what created the significant amount of fire and heat to cause

i'm derek mcginty. >> i'm jan jeffcoat. we hard from the correctional officer who solved the mysterious disappearance of an elderly gaithersburg woman. 69-year-old betty jean queen was in police custody the whole time. andrea mccarren is live in clarkbsurg to explain for us. good evening. andrea. >> reporter: good evening, jan. betty jean queen wasn't missing.and it was a montgomery county correctional officer who was first to figure that out. >> i was like i know her. she's been housed in my facility. >> reporter: corporal davidson was surprised to see the familiar face of betty jean queen during yesterday's public plea for help from queen's sister. >> we want you back home. please get in touch with us. >> reporter: the gaithersburg woman disappeared a month ago without a trace. >> she wasn't combative, but she wasn't responsive. >> reporter: turns out queen had been booked in the jail as jane smith because she had no identification, no fingerprints on file and she refused to give her name. a diagnosed schizophrenic she'd

. >> i'm derek mcginty. temperatures below freezing, so it won't take a lot of snow to cause you problems in the morning commute. our first alert meteorologist topper shutt is here with a look at what doppler 9000 has even as we speak. >> we've got some pretty good snow bands pushing through the metro area. even here the last couple minutes the ground is coated again. let's start with live doppler. over the past two hours you can see some pretty good snow bands moving essentially now from north. [ audio difficulties ] maryland checked in with 6 inches. we'll come back, talk about when temps get above freezing tomorrow, look ahead to a clipper thursday and a potentially bigger storm for super bowl sunday. >>> you just heard the man. snow is falling and so is the mercury. already the conditions are getting pretty rough on the roads tonight. >> mola lenghi is live in rockville with a look at how crews are trying to keep the roads clear for your morning commute. >> reporter: as topper just mentioned, snowfall te

. >> i'm derek mcginty. >>> some very gusty winds are causing more problems than just bad hair days tonight. 40-mile an hour winds whipping around the tourists at the monument and even brought down a few tree branches. virginia power says a tree branch falling on power lines in springfield left about 500 people in the dark. they expect to get the lights back on there soon. >> they'll need heat because the strong winds will make the air outside feel like it's below 0 tonight. >>> chief meteorologist topper shutt is tracking where it's going to be. >> we just saw some folks jogging around the mall. tomorrow morning will be below 0. our wind advisory continues for the entire area till midnight. winds could gust miles per hour. 38 mile-per-hour wind gust at leesburg at 7:00, 37 in manassas and a 41 mile-per-hour wind gust at national. so far we've had a 43 mile-per- hour wind gust at dulles today. temperatures in the 20s across the board falling like a stone. 22 in hagerstown, 21 in cumberland, 27 leesburg and manassas. factor in the winds it feel like 10 in gaithersburg -- feels like 10 in gai

. >> i'm derek mcginty. security has been ramped up in belgium following a deadly anti- terror raid outside the capital city of brussels. >> two suspected terrorists were killed. authorities interrupted what they thought was a suspected terrorist attack. a firefight erupted about 75 miles outside brussels belgium. the anti-terror raid turned deadly when men with ties to syria opened fire on police. two suspects were killed. a third was injured and arrested. >> during the investigation we found that this group was about to commit terrorist attacks in belgium. >> authorities say the planned attacks were aimed at police buildings and personnel. belgium police had watched the group for weeks. local media reports investigators found automatic weapons, police uniforms and bomb making equipment at the suspect's location. investigators say there appears to be no link to last week's attacks in paris. amedy coulibaly who prosecutors say killed four people in a kosher supermarket is said to have bought automatic weapon

. >> i'm derek mcginty. well, another night and another morning of bitter cold andschools are already changing their schedules for tomorrow. there are two-hour delays in fairfax county, prince william county, loudoun county, winchester county schools. >>> we're in for another chilly night as well. chief meteorologist topper shutt is tracking how cold it's going to get. top? >> reporter: there are some flurries and perhaps even more arctic air tomorrow night and in to saturday. here are the clouds. clouds are overspreading most of the metro area looking back to the west as we have some snow breaking out in parts of columbus all the way down to lexington, kentucky, all the way to cincinnati. for the most part it will peel off to the north of us, but we could squeeze out a snowflake or two late tonight, early tomorrow morning. this is 10:00 with the temperatures in the upper teens, low 20s. they won't fall much because of the cloud cover and the southwesterly winds. even by 8:00 in the morning we're still looki

. >> i'm derek mcginty. arlington, prince george's, fairfax, loudoun county schools and many more making the call for a two-hour delay tomorrow. i guess it's once burned twice shy thanks to this nasty helping of winter weather. >> as you head out tomorrow brace for a refreeze, slick roads and the potential for lake effect snow showers. let's get right to first alert meteorologist erica grow. >> i think it was a smart move to issue delays first thing because we have the potential for black ice and lots of slick spots. it's going to cause tough travel early in the morning. tonight partial clearing and refreezing on untreated surfaces, but also some of the areas that got the initial treatment, it's either going to be too diluted or maybe got washed away during the snow melt that we had during the day today. so there is high potential for lots of black ice out there tomorrow morning and once that sun angle gets up there and helps to warm up the road surfaces, then the kids will be able to safely get to school af

. >> i'm derek mcginty. in the past 15 minutes we learned a 7-year-old pulled from the icy waters by two prince george's county officers this evening has died. >> it happened at a pond in the 1500 block of south view drive and oxon hill. that's where jim osman has more on the dramatic rescue, certainly not the outcome any of us were hoping for, devastating. >> reporter: what a all right breaker. it looked like -- what a heartbreaker. it looked like it was going to end up the story of two hero cops, but tonight a sad ending. a 7-year-old struggled for his life in the 1500 block of south view drive in oxon hill. >> one of our officers was flagged down by a mother who said her child fell into the pond. >> reporter: a frigid friday night didn't make conditions great for the responding officers. >> those two officers immediately took action, jumped into the pond in an attempt to rescue the child. they successfully pulled the child out of the pond, performed cpr and waited for paramedics. >> reporter: the 7-year-o

. >> and i'm derek mcginty. >> the family living inside a home tried to escape in their car but ha that had to be quickly bainded scott broom explains why. >> reporter: why the survivors said what looked like a puddle turned out to be a nearly bottomless pit this is the mendoza family waiting away after their car sank in to a sinkhole this morning at 4:00 a.m. while they were trying to flee the flood caused by a water main break here. 7-year-old may nor mom saying in spanish the family was trying to get out of the driveway after their basement apartment was flood. seven homes badly damaged by the flood, basements underwater, backyards, eroded like canyons. >> i couldn't believe it. i thought it was going to stop soon but it didn't, it kept coming. >> it's that time of year, we've had over 300 breaks

. >> and i'm derek mcginty. >>> we now have more information on what happened with the metro tunnel filling with smoke earlier this week. the time line shows the first response for that smoke was at gallery place, not l'enfant plaza, and we also learned people were calling for help nearly half an hour after the smoke was first reported. 3:24 metro requests medical and fire units reporting some people can barely breathe. the first rescue unit arrives at the station seven minutes later. 3:33 a caller on the stalled yellow line train reports the tunnel is filled with smoke. that same caller is back nine minutes later asking is help on the way. a metro transit official told him stay on world because those tracks are still live. at -- on board because those tracks are still live. at 4:09 there's report of a person suffering a seizure on the pain and an adult woman receiving cpr. >>> metro is facing its first lawsuit as some of the passengers on that trapped train demanded answers. >> reporter: i'm bruce leshan at

. >> i'm derek mcginty. the crews are already on the roads prepping for what's to come and meteorologist erica grow is here to explain. >> it's the timing that makes this a significant event for our area. you can see the winter weather advisory has been posted for the counties highlighted in purple. that includes the entire metro areas, the surrounding counties of the beltway and the national weather service criteria for an advisory are if you get an inch or snow or more during one of the rush hours. so that is the reason for the winter weather advisory being issued in the first place. your timing here, the snow arriving before dawn, most of the snow will be during that morning commute. so we will have reduced visible because of those snowflakes, but it will be a powdery snow. it will be easy to clean off the car is really the only good news that we have here. the snow showers could continue into early afternoon. how much will you get north and west of the beltway? 1 to 2 inches. even through the i-81 corrid

. >> i'm derek mcginty. another burst of snow is expected tonight across our area. that's what could make for a really slippery morning commute. top is here to tell us exactly what to expect. >> temperatures in the 20s in the suburbs already. consequential we've extended our yellow alert and national weather service has issued a winter weather advisory until 10 a.m. on tuesday for just about the entire metro area. doesn't include our friends in culpeper and shenendoa valley. 1 to 2 inches in the immediate metro area between the beltway between now and 7 a.m. tomorrow morning. across the bay and on the western sliver of the bay maybe 2 to 4 inches. a little bit of moisture can wrap around the system. here's the radar. you can see it's beginning to fill in a little bit as the system begins to crank off the virginia beach coast and pushing moisture from the northwest northeast to the southwest and

. >> i'm derek mcginty. by this time tomorrow we'll be experiencing at least an inch or 2 of snow and bitter cold temperatures. >> let's get right to first alert meteorologist erica grow who has been tracking the system all day. >> we are going to be done with the snow by this time tomorrow. this is a morning event which is why the impact will be so great. the winter weather advisories are in effect for the counties in purple from 4 a.m. until 1 p.m. the national weather service issues these advisories partially based on how much snow we'll get and partially based on the timing of the system. for this one it is because of the time. before dawn the snow will start to make its way into the belt way. most of the snow will fall during the morning commute, so that timing could not be worse and the snow will reduce the visibility at times as you're driving to work tomorrow, but the good news is that it will be easy to clean up. it's light powdery snow. a snow shower is possible in the afternoon, but most of the sn

. >> and i'm derek mcginty. fairfax, prince william county and arlington counties say classes will start two hours late tomorrow. >> we expect more districts will follow suit especially because the snow is not going anywhere soon. meteorologist erica grow is tracking very cold temps on the way. >> that's right. now that the snow is gone we generally have very cold nights after that because the fresh snowpack allows temperatures to dip quickly. we got 4-inch of snow at the capitol building, 2.8 in montgomery village, maryland. so it was less snow to the north. we had that one persistent heavy band that happened to set up in possibly the worst area, glenarden 3 1/2 inches. we got plenty of snow up and down the 66 corridor and route 7 corridor, herndon got 3.9, ashburn 4.3 inches, baileys crossroads 3.1-inch and about the same in both leesburg and alexandria shy of 3 inches. this is what you need to know now that the snow is gone. it's going to be awfully cold tonight and the potential is very high there will be re

. >> and i'm derek mcginty. >>> another wet drive home tonight. the rain and snow are gone, but now you got something else to worry about. >> chief meteorologist topper shutt is tracking the cold and the spot -- possibility of slick spots tonight. >> we're not looking at a mass refreezing. temps won't fall much behind the clipper, but doppler radar over the past couple hours, everything has moved across the bay into the delmarva. we'll see leftover mixed bag out toward cumberland west of hagerstown maybe up toward chambersburg, but for the most part precipitation is over in the metro area. 32 in leesburg, 34 in manassas, frederick, 32 in hagerstown. we have cold air on the way. it's going to lag behind a bit. maybe 34 tonight in bethesda and rockville, maybe toward laytonsville and olney 32, maybe 32 in sterling and leesburg, but for the most part d.c. south temperatures remaining above freezing. not to say you can't come across slick spots with your little car thermometer saying 34 or 35. tonight wind chills -- tomorrow night rather wind chills 5

we have more with derek mcginty. >> we will dell you, sometimes a little bit makes a big difference when you are talking about complicated weather symptoms. the storm -- weather systems is. turned out the storm tracked 50 to 75-miles further east than expected, and it spared the big apple, but unfortunately boston is still being hammered. >> three coastal town it is to be evacuated this morning, fleeing the flood water that is came with high tide. first responders helped this elderly couple get out safely. nantucket island is completely in the dark after ice build-up a substation. and in fox grove, massachusetts, the snow fell all night long and through the morning with snow totals approaching 3 feet, not exactly easy shoveling for people like fred schultz. >> it has been hard. >> reporter: the long island area in new york had more than a foot of snow falling but in new york city forecasts of 20- plus inches fell short. city kids did get a treat, just their 12th snow day since 1978. >> we got to miss school so it is all right. >> reporter: new york is back in business today after the gov

. >> and i'm derek mcginty and it is all because of the freezing temps. we are hearing about school changes for tomorrow. prince george's county of maryland opening two hours late. in virginia, fairfax, prince williams, warren, page county, all are opening two hours late. our updated list is at the bottom of your screen and on the wusa9 app. the question of the night, how strong will those winds get and how low will the windchills go? topper shutt is back just in time to tell us the story. >> i think winds will be over 30 miles an hour at wind night. that will drive windchills to 15 below. these are straight temperatures. 21 downtown. in the teens in the suburbs. down to 14 in hagerstown. the winds are just starting to appear. feels like 5 in dc, feels 3 below in hagerstown town. down to the south, it feels like it is only 6 degrees. you have to dress for the windchills over the next 12 to 24 hours. by 10:00 tonight, here is our wind gust tracker. now, this is just a forecast. each number represents miles an hour wind gusts at that time. that snapshot in

. >> and i am derek mcginty. we are not expecting lot of snow but harsh experience taught us when it comes in the early morning, it doesn't take much. that is why tomorrow the yellow alert day, right? top? >> yes. as cold as it will be by morning, it will be slippery quickly. to that fact weather advisories have been issued for the entire metro area between 4:00 and noon tomorrow. montgomery county and the southern half of louden county east of 15 toward fairfax, arlington and southern halloween into charles county and prince georges county and extended to calvert and st. marys before all is said and done. how much will fall? well, south of 50 and east and south of 95 will be the bull's eye.

. >> i'm derek mcginty. let's get right to meteorologist topper shutt. folks having a wet ride home? >> especially east of town. thankfully the showers to the west are gone and moving through very quickly. we do have winter weather advisories in effect for the immediate metro area until 7 p.m. if you're in montgomery or fairfax or loudoun county, your rain, snow and sleet showers are over. in fact, here is the radar the past couple hours. you can see between 4:00 it was back toward leesburg and by

i'm derek mcginty. while the snow scene wasn't as bad as perhaps advertised, you can see from this video in frederick the roads up there are wet and a little bit snowy and could get pretty slick a little bit later on. chief meteorologist topper shutt tracking cold temperatures and the a.m. commute could be in some jeopardy. >> it certainly could be. i'm a little depressed the snow is going to go north of us but just not our storm. we have winter weather advisories in effect for much of the area until tomorrow. for the backside, coastal storm and icy spots. we're concerned a little bit about refreezing tonight everywhere. out of the west you won't see much snow if at all. inside the beltway an inch or two. right along the west side of the bay and across the bay 2 to 4 inches of snow is possible by tomorrow morning. you can see the precipitation working its way from east to west as that system begins to wind up off the northeastern coast of north carolina. you can see also some bands little banding settin

. >> i'm derek mcginty. scott broom is live at anne arundel mills to explain all this stuff. >> reporter: you know who would be, of course, we the people who in maryland voted for slot machine gambling on the promise that machine would be heavily taxed and that money used all for education. fast forward now, a new governor talks about cuts to education at the same time that yesterday casinos got approval to shift a lot of their business over to games where they get to keep a lot more of money for themselves. >> well, i think that's what they're doing, bait and switch. i mean they make one promise and turn around and do something else. >> reporter: that something else is table games which make maryland's casinos a lot more money, but leave some taxpayers wondering what hit them. >> they tricked us. >> reporter: gambling opponents say marylanders have been fooled. thursday maryland's gaming commission voted to allow maryland live! and the new horseshoe casino in baltimore to get rid of 300 slot machines each w

. >> i'm derek mcginty. the man's name, christopher cornell, from ohio arrested for the attempted killing of a u.s. government officer and possession of a firearm in the further answer of attempted violence. the plot was to attack the u.s. capitol and it include guns and bombs and was stopped

i'm derek mcginty. >> i'm lesli foster. of course, federal authorities portray 20-year-old christopher cornell as an islamic terrorist sympathizer determined to kill. 20-year-old christopher lee cornell is scheduled to appear at a federal courthouse in cincinnati friday. the fbi says he plotted to attack the u.s. capitol building and kill as many people as possible in the name of the islamic terrorist group isis. his parents say their son is a good person and a home body. >> he was like a big kid. his best friend is his cat mikey and his mom. >> reporter: the fbi's joint terrorism task force arrested cornell wednesday after he purchased two semiautomatic rifles and approximately 600 rounds of ammunition at the point blank firing range and gun shop. >> there wasn't really anything about him that would have suggested he was involved in something like this. >> reporter: agents first learned about cornell from an informant who told them cornell was posting pro isis comments on twitter under another name. in august cornell repor

i'm derek mcginty. >> i'm lesli foster. three alleged terrorists are dead tonight, one remaining at large and four hostages are dead. al-qaeda in yemen is claiming responsibility for ordering this attack on the newspaper on wednesday. bruce leshan has been keeping an eye on the latest developments and joins us live with more. >> this three-day terror rampage seems to be over but for the one woman suspect who seems to have slipped out of the supermarket. homeland security experts say this kind of homegrown terrorist attack is exactly what they have been worrying about for years. gunfire and stun grenades, french authorities say said and cherif kouachi wanted to die martyrs. cornered at a printing plant near degaulle airport, police say they came out shooting heavily armed police fired back killing the brothers and rescued their hostage unharmed, but in another paris neighborhood an associate of the brothers had also taken hostages in what the french president says was anti-semitic attack on a kosher supermarket. amedy coulib

>>> thanks for being here, i'm derek mcginty. >> i'm lesli foster. we are already hearing about school delays tomorrow. fairfax county schools will open two hours late as will prince william, warren counties, along with winchester public schools. paige county opens just one hour late. if we hear anymore delays you will too. it'll be at the bottom of our screen. so the big question is if this cold front will bring us anymore flakes or arctic air. chief meteorologist topper shutt has the answers. >> reporter: yes on both counts. a couple of flakes late tonight, flurries, maybe a snow shower and then the arctic air tomorrow night on saturday. right now 23 downtown. 16 in gaithersburg. 21 leesburg. 18 in manassas and frederick and martinsburg. these are not windchills, but the actual temperatures. the good news is that those temp wills not fall much tonight as clouds begin to move in. by 8:00 the upper teens and the lower 20s with some clouds and then by 10:00 the clouds will thicken up a little bit. you're not seeing any blue, but a couple of flurries w

. >> i'm derek mcginty. it's been a rough evening rush on some parts of the subway. injuries reported and service along the green and yellow lines have been suspended just as a whole lot of you are trying to get home. >> scene finally starting to calm down a little bit after several hours. it was a tough several hours. smoke pouring in to passenger trains filling the metro tunnels. people being evacuated. people having to be treated for smoke inhalation. officially six injuries in all. one we're told was a serious injury. all six people taken to the hospital. there were scores of passengers who were stuck on the train in the tunnels. there were many who were standing outside the metro station after being evacuated covered in black soot. they were out there coughing. while metro and fire officials have not yet determined a cause the passengers on the train that had to be evacuated tell me conductors announced there was an electrical malfunction that led to the smoke. that is still being investigated. those passengers describe a pretty scary scene. some stuck in a smok

i'm derek mcginty. >> i'm lesli foster. let's get right to meteorologist erica grow with more on tonight's big drop in the temperatures. >> that's right. we're looking at temperatures dropping to the 20s overnight tonight. that will allow the snow that turned a little slushy to refreeze overnight. we picked up 4 inches of snow at the capitol building. montgomery village got 2.8, almost 4 inches in glenarden and chevy chase. silver spring picked up about 3 1/2 inches of snow. in ashburn you got 4.3, baileys crossroads 3.1, almost 4 inches in herndon, leesburg picked up 3.2 inches of snow officially and alexandria 2.8 inches. this is what you need to know moving forward. we will see partial clearing tonight and temperatures dipping to the 20s. that is going to allow for refreezing on any of those surfaces, he is is the ones that haven't been treat -- especially the ones that haven't been treated at all. if there has been a treatment that doesn't account for those really cold temperatures, there could be problems again. wednes

. >> i'm derek mcginty. the wusa9 first alert weather team is calling tomorrow a yellow alert day and erica grow with more on when and where it's expected to hit. >> the when is the main problem. the snow will fall during that morning commute. in fact, it's going to start further west of us before sunrise. this system will head toward us west to east. you can see the winter weather advisory is in effect for the entire immediate metro area and all points north and northwest of that going into effect at 4 a.m. and be with us until 1 p.m. tomorrow. the snow arriving before dawn even in the peltway it will get here before sunrise. most of the snow will fall during that morning commute and we'll see snow taper off to just flurries and a quick snow shower in the afternoon. the good news is that it's powdery snow and very easy to dust off the car, but the reduced visibility is the main concern. a snow shower possible in the afternoon, but by then we will already have our accumulations, 1 to 2 inches north and west