County board chair who has supported the street car project all along. It would have affected businesses here along columbia pike at the county Government Office today. He announced that he will make it official today at the county Board Meeting and they just voted on it, 41, by offering a motion to discontinue the street car motion after seeing what happened on november 4 he he cant ignore the election and the fact that voters supported the candidate who made opposition to the street cars central part of his campaign. Now that they plan scrapping the project he and b. W. I. , thurgood marshall, those could be tied or broken. Were not suffering in says the will instead focus on improving the bus systems in the area. I believe that debating the street car issue further would continue discord and dueling facts will not serve our community and will distract us from addressing other pressing issues. And coming up all new at 5 00 well hear from Business Owners in the community that would have been impacted by the project and hear why some say they didnt feel it would have helped bring more customers into their businesses. In arlington, abc 7 news. Okay. Thank you. Decision by the county board is our question of the day for you. Do you think it was the right call . Go to the wjla Facebook Page and join the conversation. Were going to share some of your responses a little bit later in our newscast. Leon . This just in to the abc 7 newsroom. Officials in missouri making plans to keep the peace when the grand jury in the death of Michael Brown wraps up its work. The potential at fallout from ferguson. Scott . Leon, there is a sweeping effort right now to try and head off any sort of violence that might occur when the decision is the potential fallout announced. Of course the great fear being that if officer Darren Wilson isnt indicted there could be and around ferguson the country. As we are speaking governor jay nixon is talking to the media and announced a commission to make recommendations on how to make ferguson a safer, more fair place for everyone to live. Its made up of regular citizens, civic and church leaders. The big discussion in the meantime is the hope for the fact if there are protests that theyre peaceful. Just yesterday the governor declared a state of emergency and put the National Guard on stand by. Weve got a very strong team in place working around the clock to make sure we are prepared to keep people safe and protect Constitutional Rights no matter what the grand jury decides or ultimately the department of justice. You know, as governor it is my responsibility to keep people safe. Thats a responsibility take very seriously. Keep in mind we still dont know when this announcement will come. We talksd today with the director of the d. C. Police foundation and the former head of the f. B. I. s Washington Field office about exactly what to expect. Youll hear from him. Also well take a look at whats being posed to Law Enforcement in the form of threats all that tonight at 6 00. Leon, alison, back to you. Thank you, scott. Part of the fallout in ferguson includes a push for officers to wear body cameras. Baltimore city police may be the next force to do so. In a 131 vote the Council Passed a bill last night that would make the Charm City Police officers wear body cameras. However, the mayor says she will veto it. She says the bill does not address privacy concerns, how the data would be stored, or including an estimated cost for the maintenance. President ernoon obama is strongly condemning the terror attack at a synagogue in jerusalem. That attack killed four people including three americans. Of the horrific attack were allayed to rest just hours after their deaths per tradition. Three american citizens were included. All came out to mourn. This man said, you went to pray to synagogue and you were murdered by terrorists. The attack was stunning, two palestinian men armed with knives, axes, and guns storming a synagogue in jerusalem. Coming into the synagogue and we heard gunshots from downstairs. At least six more people were injured, many from direct ax blows to the head. Shot and killed the two terrorists. This was the first time in the longstanding israelipalestinian conflict that worshipers inside of synagogue were targeted. It took place in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood that has a Large Population of English Speaking immigrants. Palestinian leader abbas condemned the attack. No Palestinian Group has claimed responsibility but hamas applauded the violence. Tensions in jerusalem are at their highest point in years. Centered around the mosque on a site that is one of the holiest places to both jews and muslims. Tragically, this is not the first loss of life that we have seen in recent months. Too many israelis have died. Too many palestinians have died. The israeli Prime Minister said today the homes of the two attackers would be demolished as punishment. Reporting from northwest, karen travers, abc 7 news. After the attack Police Stepped up patrols in jewish communities in at least two parts of our area today. While multiple places of worship are now on special police, by area coming up ill explain why and tell you where on abc 7 news at 5 00. The husband accused in a brutal attack in virginia will remain behind bars for now. Andrew schmuhl and his wife alecia are accused of attacking alecias former boss and his wife inside their virginia will remain behind bars for now. Andrew schmuhl and his wife alecia are accused of attacking alecias former boss and his wife inside their mclean home allegedly torturing them for hours. Heres a look at why the judge denied schmuhls bond. Inside this fairfax courthouse this morning prosecutors told a judge 31yearold andrew schmuhl, a former j. A. G. Member, terrorized a mclean couple inside their home for nearly three hours. Schmuhl and his wife alecia are accused of assaulting alecias former boss, arlington lawyer leo fischer, and his wife, back on november 9. Prosecutors say andrew and alecia drove the fischers home where alecia waited in the car as andrew posed as police. Once inside the house, Authorities Say andrew tased mr. Fischer then tied him up and his wife, stabbing them both. The prosecution today said andrew pressured mr. Fischer on information about other people at his law firm. Prosecutors today revealed fischers wife sounded the fire alarm while laying still, pretending to be dead. Authorities say thats when andrew told the couple hed, the be back to finish job and ran the job and ran out. This morning his attorney argued andrew wasnt a flight risk and should be released. The judge denied bond. Alecia schmuhl had her day in court last week. Her lawyer argued it was all andrews idea but she was also denied bond. Andrew schmuhl is expected to be back here in court in fairfax for a preliminary hearing january 6th. In fairfax, abc 7 news. A court of law sentenced drian peterson to he was paid during that time so he says hell pay a fine if the suspension stands the earliest he could be back would be april 15, 2015. Goodell didnt even call peterson to notify him. He was paid during that instead the commissioner sent a letter to the 2012 nfl m. V. P. In that letter the commissioner said, and i quote, we are repared to put a farro gram in place that can help you succeed but no program can succeed without your genuine and continuing engagement. Now, peterson has been paid for those days when he was not in the league. Right. Where he was in exemption. W, he says he wants to pay that. The next sixgame suspension which he gets here at least six games will cost him more than 41 million. Peterson says hell pay that. Gets me is g that the inconsistency by the nfl commissioners. Weve seen it in re rice and peterson. You see no parallel . I definitely see a parallel. He came out initially with ray rice and said twogame suspension. The video went public and he said youre indefinite. Exactly. He is doing something similar here. It was proposed, look, el a he pa i for the time he missed. Fine him. Him come back because he served his time. Roger goodell said no. There has to be counseling. You have to be fully engaged. Then well decide if you can come back next year. Served his time. Roger goodell said no. There has to be counseling. You have to be fully engaged. Then well decide if you can come back next year. All right. Well see you in a little bit. Thank you. Still to come here at 4 00, half a peterson. Dozen people have already been indicted on federal crimes relating to the 2010 campaign. A look at what could be next for d. C. s mayor now that he has allegedly turned down a deal. A little later guess what part of our area has paid the groceries in for the entire country. But need it going to tonight, horace. Thank you. You know what . Airly easy. Parts of new york are digging snow right eet of counting. The lake effect snow blanketed the buffalo region overnight s an g about 2 to 4 inche hour. Winds that with gusty and theyre dealing with near whiteout conditions. Its not over yet. Totals could reach 5 or 6 feet by the time it lets up tomorrow. You were talking about that last night. Yes. Ess. , my goodn crazy. Alked to wpop es t who earlier did traffic and weather. Storm up to see the first hand and we talked live is unbelievable. Lets set you up here. Ther story. Own wea 34 at Reagan National. Looking live at the bell haven alexandria. In beautiful from the window but definitely a little winter too now. Or many people right wind chill at 22 degrees with a northwesterly wind at 22 miles per hour. 31 at andrews. Our afternoon temperatures n rage for this time i november upper 50s. Hello. Way below the mark. Hills are the wind c the map. 12 degrees in martinsburg and cumberland. Stown. Ager s capital. Ation hours the overnight well see this diminish with s overhead ir mas emperatures are going to plummet. Ere looking for rains generally between 14 and 23 degrees across the area. Definitely one of the coldest november mornings weve had for our way e coming early tomorrow morning and if umbers reach below 20 degrees at b. W. I. And washington dulles would be records. Were forecasting lows there to 17. 9, low manassas a low of 23 at Reagan National. This is that snow band we talked about. Moving across the erie. You get three or four miles to and rth of the snow band he sun is out. Crazy stuff. Heres what we have. Of this. Out egrees by the time we roll through thursday. Cold one tomorrow in the mid 30s. Another cold front will drop us s with upper 30 sunshine on friday and then we start to warm it up. Saturday. Sunday a front comes and pushes but o the upper 50s brings rain with it. 0 in ld be close to 7 spots here by monday. Imagine that. Nice rain. Be a thats why i love the weather. Well, as for the thatll be great. A nice thought. Oug. Ank you, d see if there is a nice thought for those driving home evening. Ads this well go to the wtop traffic center. Not looking too good northwest portion of the beltway. This nty of volume on both unny afternoon but directions quite slow. Of tysons out into the sun and the inner loop silver ethesda, road , a crash on canal outbound just before the chain bridge. Its going to need a tow truck and that usually takes a while in the district. We go. 66, bright sunshine and plenty of volume there. Lets see 395 headed south from he pentagon. Duke of volume down to treet. Coming from the pentagon on 395 south. Beltway at k at the ver road where you can see traffic is moving very slowly between rection here tysons and 270. Well check in with you a little later. Thank you. N abc 7 news at the money to make improvements at local schools. P well give you a closeup view of some work being elected han 60 newly members of the house and senate are on capitol hill today eeklong ff a w freshman orientation. Kers posed ew lawma for this class picture right steps of capitol hill. Democrats hill reelected representative nancy woyear term ther t s House Minority leader. Her victory in a private democrats ouse comes two weeks after elections of course in which the party dozen seats. A pelosi has been house nce 2003, leader si including four years as the first female house speaker. Well, now outside the capitol take a look. Weve been watching the scaffolding go up around the weeks r the last few now. Thats right. And kind of eerie looking but gorgeous at the same time. Its all part of the project to fix up the cracks and other problems over the next seven dome. On the today we got a chance to get a glimpse inside. Saw show you what we there. Leon and alison, of course its off limits to visitors and one can only wonder from afar what is going on way up there. Ere as you mentioned we w iew of the seup v work that is taking place some 28 stories above the ground there on the dome. Workers have been getting the dome repaired. Job in first repair dome. 0 years to the now, it is entering a new phase. Crews have completed the scaffolding now that will encase the dome while theyre some heir hands and fancy new methods to repair the 1500 cracks to the dome, itself. This is the first time that the layers of leadbased paint will be completely removed and remediated. The first time were using tablets to document every crack and every defect in the dome. And all that work is expected to last for about a exterior st for the ork is n all of the w expected to be completed by the next inauguration in 20162017 rather. Reporting live from capitol s. L, abc 7 new thanks, kennedy is. Had to be cold up there. Montgomery county public hools is looking for another 223 million for an expansion project being planned right now. He board of education approved r ndments to the sixyea Capital Improvements program last night. Would increase the School Construction budget e owing 36 projects to b completed sooner and adding thousands of classroom seats as well. Amendments now go on for consideration and the state final say. All right. E could add om lin up quickly for you when you re. D to the grocery sto still to come, which part of ops the list of the most expensive groceries in the country . Debate over whether sed es should be open or clo thanksgiving. Hole new level. Why some may tell the future is looking a bit different across area. Had his hands in his own pockets. Here is our 29 degrees right now in arlington. Is crazy cold for the time of the year. The average high still the upper 50s. Lets get started with numbers around the area right now. Temperatures in the 20s and 30s. 31 at andrews. Dulles. Gton gaithersburg says 27. 29 in baltimore. Lows tonight, he lets tell you about the records. E record low temperature for tomorrow morning is 18 degrees at Reagan National. Out 23 for a be ab low there so no record. B. W. I. , thurgood marshall, e shington dulles both hav record lows of 20 degrees. Were forecasting lows at 19. Those would set new records. Low, how average ell be for rage w the temperatures. Gh the get throu efinitely rs were d ut. Ng to bottom o in many of the teens climb only to tomorrow afternoon h spite another day filled wit sunshine. 32 to 37 degrees will be the range. There is a bit of a warmup headed for the weekend but with mup will come some rain. In about 10 minutes well go new york, and localized n a very lake effect snow blizzard in right now. Thats it, leon. Thanks. Look forward to it. Eral e meantime fed investigators are on the scene rash in al plane c chicago. Fficials say a cargo plane went down early this morning shortly after takeoff from midway airport. Nto a nearby home an elderly couple by inches. He pilot was killed. The faa says the pilot reported some engine problems just after takeoff and was trying to eturn to midway. There was no fire or explosion. In new jersey a man there allegedly left a path of destruction after a night of drinking led him to steal a bulldozer. 30yearold kristoffer russell hile arged with driving w intoxicated, criminal mischief, leaving the scene of an cident, and theft of the bulldozer. Bulldozer he leveled signs, three benches, a tree, a drinking fountain, and left a maze of tracks in the grass. Home, a ere at pharmaciest is in some trouble aling some powerful pills. Within 7,000 tablets of a pain killer and controlled substance go missing from this in bethesda, et the man responsible for the crime was a staff pharmaciest assigned to this floor. Xclusive story coming up at 6 00. All right. That. Ou for now its looking more likely d. C. Mayor vincent gray could on federal charges. That that after reports a plea deal cted with federal prosecutors over ign. 2010 campa d. C. Bureau chief sam ford is live outside the building with nvestigation and where it all stands now. Sam . Yes, alison. Well, the feds say that the mayor in the 2010 election had a legitimate campaign where he reported the Campaign Finance there was a 650,000 campaign that was illegal. Itted to never adm knowing anything about that. Is now will he be indicted about it . The mayor faces faced a crush of reporters today following a the Washington Post report that back in september he rejected a plea ttorney to e u. S. A single lty to a felony. Eal, eportedly said, no d and he hasnt done anything wrong. Of his supporters or associates in his 2010 campaign have pleaded guilty to felonies usually for telling to the f. B. I. The mayor would not discuss the case today with reporters. Wait a minute. Minute. If you all have questions about this continuing investigation talk to bob bennett. Okay. Ayor. Rry, m did you turn down a deal, sir . If you want to talk about g investigation, which is going on for almost bept. Ears talk to bob hes my attorney. Uld have taken ho the plea deal. You know . Why . Everybody else has taken the deal. So hes the only one left out holding out. D. C. Council chairman phil lindelson said today he is glad if this had to happen it r ago ed now and not a yea because the city will have a and new council in a matter of weeks. Ry on ve more on the sto 6 00. Ews at reporting live in northwest washington, sam ford. Abc 7 news. Thank you, sam. Marylands attorney general on to a hes moving d. C. Law firm when his term is up in january. That he will oday join Buckley Sandler and will play a leading role in its government enforcement and litigation practices. Attorne