is the safest out. the safety of every community is our highest priority. for thousands of commuters that take amtrak into or out of the city, the derailment make an unscheduled transfer to silver spring. it is challenging and only monday. you can see the work going on. they are pulling a big section of rail. i m not sure if that is going in or out. they are rushing to move a lot of the rail cars out of here and got most of them out already. they want to get the track reopened. but they are going to need to removal of the soil that was contaminated with that ethyanol and put in clean soil before they get the train going. all of that could take time. c sx sa air around that site. it hasn t found any problems so far but again it is just not clear how much longer it will take to get the line reopened. more problems here. a yellow weather alert again. first alert meteorologist topper shutt with us. what can we expect. between 11 and 3:00 a.m. will be the critical ti
keystone pipeline. the white house sent notice of the veto to the gnatsenate shortly after it was received today. they may try to override the president s veto but unlikely they ll get the 2/3 majority in both chambers that they need to do that. it s getting cold when we re looking forward to temperatures in the 30 s or near 30 s. chief meteorologist doug hill now in the storm watch weather center. when can we get a warmup here? we ll get it tomorrow. one day deal. one day warmup and then back to the cold weather by thursday. we re on our potomac river ice watch again today and it hasn t changed much. we have single day here and there that gets above freezing for the bulk of the day. that hasn t changed much. overnight temperatures are so cold. that trend will continue. 27 in gaithersburg. 26 for quantico. average high this time of the day this time of the year is 49. a good 20 degrees colder below that. we ll continue to drop through the 20 s with partly cloudy skies and
of marijuana in d.c. the council chairman insists there s no violation. people need to realize it s not a cost involved in this. it s not an operational program here. it may ultimately be decided by the courts. in the meantime it is popular in d.c. i think it was voted for and we should go ahead. would you use more if it s legal? i smoke it but i don t drink. mayor bowser says she has directed the chief of police and the director of the health department to form a task force to monitor the implementation of legal marijuana in d.c. reporting live from northwest washington, sam ford abc 7 news. thank you sam. legislation allowing lawmakers to regulate marijuana like alcohol is advancing in maryland maryland s house of delegates. today, the house judiciary committee held a public hearing on the issue and it s not clear when the committee would vote. the legislation would allow residents to grow marijuana plants and prevent up to one ounce of the drug in maryland.
afternoon outside of an apartment in colesville. the questions, who committed the brutal murder and why? leon: roz plater is on the scene. reporter: they arrest stunned as everyone else, and asking what everyone else is asking, who would want to murder a world war ii veteran, especially at a place they thought he would be safe. montgomery county outside of the randolph village senior complex the site where a 95-year-old man was found murdered. investigators have identified him as retired naval officer dan belvin. an extremely nice person. reporter: she has been his neighbor for decades. we feed the deer, and he was a sweet person. i m sort of taken aback by it. reporter: a friend had not heard from dan belvin for several days. the apartment manager found him dead in his apartment, stabbed multiple times. i cannot understand it. reporter: online documents show that he was a licensed pilot and flight instructor with his most recent certificate in 2010. he was a good pil
lifted northward as more guidance comes out this afternoon. but based on what we know right now, this developing storm system spreading snow with winter storm warnings in effect through the mid south and tennessee valley. whole thing will move off to the east. it may push northward enough to give us some snow. timing is the issue because it will be coming through the morning rush hour tomorrow. advisory is south of washington couple of inches possible. timing for most of the snow 4:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. delays and cancellations possible for areas with the snow. take a quick look at the computer model here and the futurecast and notice as we get through the evening and close to 4:00, 5:00 in the morning, the snow is moving and advancing north of the metro area. heaviest amounts south and east and looks like it will quickly move off to the east. by 7:00 heaviest snow tidewater. that will be that. cloudy skies remaining for the afternoon. how much? jacqui had this snowfall map u