Lets talk about the weather. Prepare for what could be the first freeze for the entire d. C. Region. Chief meteorologist doug hill is here to show us what kind of weather to expect as we make our weekend plans. Hi, doug. Weather temperatures are dropping quickly. 37 outside our studios in arlington. Not that far to go to freezing. Down to 33 already at washington dulles. Still 40 at Reagan National airport. 37 now in manassas. The overnight, as these winds diminish and skies clear, well see overnight readings between 23 and 31 degrees by early tomorrow morning, probably making it the coldest overnight period weve had this season to date. Tomorrow, i mean, it looks beautiful. Sunshine. But temperatures way below our average high of 59. Only 41 to 46. Well check out sunday with hail. Next seven days as we go searching for warmer temperatures in just a few minutes. Of Appeals Court here in washington has rejected a new challenge to the Affordable Care act. Of catholic nonprofit organizations argued the optout contraceptionhe mandate is inadequate. A threejudge panel disagreed in decision. S earlier this year, the u. S. Supreme court ruled certain thenesses are entitled to same accommodations as religiously affiliated groups. And a note to anyone trying to Purchase Health insurance ebb. Gh heb the through healthcare. Gov. The Obama Administration says of the website will be shut down overnight as it transitions to the start of signup season tomorrow. Health officials hope to avoid a years botched rollout which was plagued with technical glitches. The department of health and Human Services expects about nine Million People to sign up this year. Now, breaking news from woodbridge. A suspect wanted in connection murder of a teenager is in custody. Prince georges county police say dion moses surrendered to policeithout incident. As Funeral Services are taking place right now for wilson. Old brendan police say wilson was killed woodbridgeug deal at high on monday. Aboutturbing new details two lawyers who are husband and wife, accused of attacking a mclain couple. Today,a Court Hearing prosecutors revealed the bizarre information, including the fact wearingrew schmuhl was just a diaper when he and his wife, Alecia Schmuhl, were arrested. Is live in mclain to tell us what else is going on in this case. Horace . Well, prosecutors say what with thisn this house couple was a torture session. With andrew schmuhl, as he was leaving, saying im coming back here to this. Prosecutors allege this strange night of whoa they call a a torturecall session, planned by andrew and all overhmuhl was severance. Alecia schmuhl was recently fired from this arlington law she and her husband, police say, drove to her bosss home. Andrew, posing as a Police Officer p gained entrance and handcuffed, beat and stabbed the man, using a stun gun on him. They say he locked the homeowners wife in a bathroom fired the gun through a wall, barely missing her. Two people have been stabbed, bleeding now. They seem to have clearly lost their minds. That the couple seemed almost the couple seen almost daily with their cute dog, disbelief they could do anything like this. Im just stunned. What would cause two people to do that. Thats just beyond belief. Alecia schmuhls lawyers was all her husbands idea, that she was afraid of him and had no idea what he was up to when he drove to her former bosss home and had no idea what inside. Oing while but when Police Caught them in their suv 30 minutes after the found ahey say they mountain of evidence. That mountain of evidence, prosecutors say, that was found in the car, a bloody knife, bloody clothing, and handcuffs. They also say they have Surveillance Video of Alecia Schmuhl buying a stun gun. Reporting live in mclain, horace news. , abc 7 the man accused of abducting uva student Hannah Graham court in Fairfax County today for an unrelated Sexual Assault case. Jesse matthew was charged with attempted capital murder and other counts stemming from a attack on a woman in fairfax city. Matthew entered a not guilty and a judge set a march 9 trial date. He is due in charlottesville in month on abduction charges in the Hannah Graham case. Heldorial service will be tomorrow in alexandria for Hannah Graham. The Fairfax County native will at west Potomac High School where she was a student a few years ago. The Service Begins at 11 a. M. U. S. Major shakeup in the Postal Service. How the struggling agency is about to make history. Learn which local city is offering healthier foods in vending machines. Arctic air, up. Ingtonians are bundled coming up, details on new features on this youre watching abc 7 news at peterson, gordon maureen bunyan, chief meteorologist doug hill, sports. And tim brant, this is abc 7 news at 6 00, on your side. The Iraqi Military is claiming a major victory tonight in the fight against isil. The military says its driven theterrorist group out of city that is the location of the refinery. L soldiers removed roadway bombs buildings. The senate is expected to authorizing the keystone pipeline. Today the house approved the pipelines construction for the ninth time. Environmental reviews and legal aallenges have delayed decision on the project for nearly a decade. The white house insists vetodentbama will likely it if it gets to his desk. Postmaster general Patrick Donahoe is retiring after 40 years. Announcement today at a meeting. U. S. Oe has been with the Postal Service for 39 years. Megan brennan will take over in firstry, making her the woman postmaster general. Patrick donahoes announcement dozens of postal workers protested outside the agencys headquarters in southwest washington. The Postal Service will make a number of changes, including post Office Closures that they feel will forever change the agency. Noahoe says the agency has choice but to make cuts. Theres been a substantial change in the way people communicate. A lot more digital communication. Unfortunately, a lot less mail. When you lose 30 of your mail volume, you have to make changes. The future of the post office can be bright if we have leadership in the post office it can be andthat should be vibrant for generations to come. The u. S. Postal service whene overall loss for the last fiscal year of 5. 5 billion. Still ahead, preparing for the upcoming winter season. The new features one city plans use to make the roads safer for drivers. And if you think its cold yourself. Doug will tell us when another expected to hit the area. Whooming up, tonight, theyre counting on to take us to the promised i thought itd be bigger. dad theres nothing i cant reach in my subaru. vo introducing the allnew subaru outback. Love. Its what makes a subaru,a subaru. The university of virginias early Application Program continues to grow in popularity. To the Daily Progress newspaper, uva received a record applications before the november 1st deadline. Applications mark a 7. 5 increase over last year. Early action allows students to apply early and receive an answer by the end of january. The deadline for regular is january 1. Get ready to see healthier machines in city facilities in alexandria. Its part of an initiative called healthy alexandria. The citys Health Director says foods with high fats, high sugar little to no nutritional value will be replaced with healthier options. Will notew snacks contain more than 200 calories sodium. Illigrams of oh,ell, tranc transportation thanksgiving isnt here yet, but thats not stopping metro from the christmas spirit. Well, maybe ho o ho Merry Christmas ho ho ho rode the silver train at the Tysons Corner station today. Was part of silver saturdays, a special holiday promotion to encourage metro riders to shop at Tysons Corner session and the galleria. Several bid businesses have offd discounts for metro riders who show their card on silver this Holiday Season. Santa has lost a few pounds, i think. Heartwarmings story. A nearly frozen kitten rescued in colorado. Kitten was found covered in snow. A denver Animal Rescue group blankets, up with heating pads, mittens and a hair dryer. The kitten, named elsa, based on the character in frozen, is thriving. Cute . She darling she looks a little like doug hill. Your heart to see a story like that, doesnt it . Really does. All right. About our weather here. Its going to get colder tonight. Numbers. Rt with im a numbers guy. They call me kind of the weather rainman. I just love numbers here. Atwas the low this morning the Reagan National airport. The average is 59 and 42 degrees. Were well below average here. The chilly temperatures will continue a bit longer. Coming next . Well, the cold air is in place. Skies are clearing. Andrews. Already 33 at washington dulles. And with clearing skies out there, the temperatures will fall quickly. We still have a bit of a breeze out of the northwest. 13 miles per hour. 13 at andrews, also at Reagan National airport. Thats putting an additional in the air at this hour. Were going to see the line trend down in a hurry with clear skies. 23 to 31 degrees for the overnight temperatures. Thats clear skies, and light well. As now, as we get through the day tomorrow, were going to see weperatures similar to what experienced today. At the moment, were 40 at Reagan National. In charleston. 25 in indianapolis. Well entrenched. The cold air is coming with lots of sunshine tomorrow. Pressure overhead. And a sunny, cold day tomorrow. As we get into the day on sunday, things are going to start to change a little bit. Partly sunnyave skies. By sunday night, well be watching a developing area of spineessure moving up the of the appalachians. The strongest cold front of the be coming to the southeast. Looks like this is going to amount to a very rainy day for the day on monday. And breezy. Enough cold air gets in late on it couldening and change to a few flakes before it ends. Sunshine, 44, on saturday. Partly sunny, 49 on sunday. Rain moving in here, a cold rain move through the day on monday. 70 probability of rain. The upperatures in 40s. By the time we get to tuesday, the cold last will be here. It will be bright and breezy on tuesday. Temperatures only in the 30s. Near 40 on wednesday. Of next week, looks like highs will probably be somewhere, im thinking, in the upper 40s. Quite to 50 but in the upper 40s. Maureen and gordon . Can live with that. Thank you very much. Transportation leaders detailed their plan today, including new on snowplows. Metal is out. Ceramic is in. I dont want to get any colder woo winter is on its way. I want to go back to at least 60 degrees. Not ready for snow. This is about the limit of the cold that i like. Im not really enjoying it. Have to dig my Winter Clothes out still. Whether or not residents are ready, the d. C. Government has its prepared for its prepared for winter. They set to work to better preserve the salt supply, aboveaverage snow totals like last year. About a third of the fleet has been equipped with new heavyduty ceramic blades, replacing metal blades that tend potholes. This has the benefit of saving the roads and having the strength of steel. Old blades begin to wear out, we are replacing them with the ceramic blades. Council member who chaired this meeting is also to rewrite d. C. Laws, requiring Property Owners to sidewalks. R in the first goround, youll get a warning. Limited theweve fine to 25. You know, you have to have something. Severe forll be more Business Owners who fail to clear their sidewalks. 250for the first offense, for the second, 500 for a third. Take out the shovel and shovel it yourself. The bill includes exemptions for seniors and the disabled. It barely passed. If it becomes law, it wont go no effect until next winter. Thanks, mike. Want to talk about maryland basketball . Lets talk hoops. You can sete that the tone for the season if you come out with wins. Also, were talking football. Barry cofield says his young that. Re looking like that and more, coming up next in sports the Holiday Season is here, which means it time r the volkswagen signthendrive event. N is here, for practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a germanengineered volkswagen. Like the sporty, advanced new jetta. And the 2015 motor trend car of the year allnew golf. 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You cant switch on those screens all the time. Lessons learned. The skins welcome back barry the injured reserve list. You can tell he was excited to there. During his welcome back press, he was asked about the young squad. This years he says some of those guys are starting to look like vets. Honestly, ive seen a lot of and ive seen those guys make a lot of plays and really play up in big moments and like vets. Speaks well for the future. They experienced enough that we week. On them every i feel like they can meet the challenge. And the caps will try to winning streak to four straight when they host the new jersey devils. 7 00. Rops at looks like those guys are starting to get a clue. Hope so. Please, about, whats going to happen. Looking ahead, looking at some of the longerrange because its so cold, it does appear that as we get to or wednesday, before thanksgiving, at that point, a week and a half away, we may point wereto the back in the mid to upper 50s. But until then, very chilly. Toight well be dropping about 23 to 31. An early riser tomorrow, thats what you expect. Very cold air. Check out our forecast for the weekend. Mostly sunny. Highs about 44. Areas the metro temperature. A little bit colder north and west of town. 15 degrees below average. Sunday with partly sunny skies. Looking ahead to next monday or monday,a few days, on it will be a rainy, breezy and chilly day, with a storm system colderhing, turning much with a powerful cold front monday night. Some areas could see a snow shower or two. Be that when it ends. Tuesday and wednesday, just very cold air. Steve will have more on the temperature extremes we expect in the morning. Tonight, david muir coming up next. Have a good night and a good welcome to world news tonight. Breaking now, the response. Spying on americans . The Justice Department explaining why. And the rescues playing out, and the new freeze warnings as and Police Officers doing this, and your tax dollars paying for it afterward. Its your money. And Sarah Jessica parker, the american treasure shes fighting for tonight. Good evenings on this friday