Good morning. It is 7 00. Welcome to wusa9s extended winter storm coverage. Right now the powerful noreaster is making its way up the coast in a and a big mess is at hand in many places this morning. Yeah, snow, sleet, rain, we have seen it all. Its been falling all through the night and for some people the worst is yet to come so when you step outside you think where is it . Whats going on, its not over, folks. , plenty of it. Rain on the right side of your screen. The rainsnow mix is right over d. C. And then frederick and areas out west are pretty excited about getting some of the snow since we havent really had a lot of it this year. Im im dan zucker. Weve got all kinds of teams and neighborhoods showing you what its like in your area. Look at our big team right there. Topper shutt and melissa nord talking weather right now. We want to start with topper with an update on this forecast. Ive been here the whole time. I havent moved, really. [ laughter ] i widened this out. The storm
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That is obviously a story that broke overnight and one that we will stay on top of as the morning progresses. First off, hope youre having a good start to your sunday morning. Im adam tuss. And im angie goff. A story that everybody is talking about it seems is the weather outside. How nice it was. When you had the saturday that we had, people want to know if well have a repeat on sunday. Unfortunately, no. A lot of clouds around, so that will shut down much heating from the sun. In addition, rain will be moving in later today. So if you have a plan maybe to get in a run or a hike or a bike ride, do it before 1 00. Thats likely when the rain will be arriving right in washington. A few sprinkles along the 81 corridor. Maybe moving in to frederick. But elsewhere, were generally all t t out into kentucky and West Virginia. This is all moving due east. Well be tracking it right into the metro area about 1 00 thats ch afternoon. And then in addition with the rain falling on saturated ground,
Crash, stephanie . Tkep ra, we heard from the ntsb awhile ago. They are saying little at the moment as to why there wassa a backhoe on live tracks and one of amtraks busiest corridors. We know they are taking evidence back to d. C. The incident happened further down the tracks in this direction. People ran for safety here. This is where the police and red cross set up their mobile command units. They were running across the field and people were coming from everywhere. Members from chester, pennsylvania opened their doors to the dozens of people injured or stranded after train 89 collided with a backhoe on its tracks. Ambulances rushed more than 30 people to the hospital and the rest of the passengers bussed back to philadelphia. But for northwest dcs terry dixon who lives out of the church. She suffered a leg inju then then the seat i was sitting in there was a big fireball that came up on the side of the window and then the train got smokey. We started coughing, they asked us to go t
Was involved the spelling bee. Its a shame we are in a city that we continue to lose kids, to be victims of senseless violent crimes. We have to do something about it. Sam that was the c. E. O. From the school that young evans attended last year. So, again, we are going to be going back inside the court here to find out the latest. I think we are going to get the charging documents so well have a lot more on what the police are saying happened coming up for you on abc7 news at 5 00. Reporting live from d. C. Superior court, im sam ford, abc7 news. Jonathan just so sad. Sam, thank you. Two protests, two calls for change on capitol hill today. Michelle one group is focusing on Campaign Finance and election reform. The second on stopping gun violence. Jonathan our Team Coverage begins with mike carterconneen. He is live with the democracy spring protesters. This is their second day of demonstrating, right, mike . Mike 400 were arrested yesterday on the steps of the capitol building, anoth