The middle part of january here. Getting specifics for an hourly forecast for tomorrow. Sunshine, just a few clouds. Somewhere in the lower 20s. And i enjoy sharing that kind of good news and theres more of it coming up shortly. Look forward to that. Thank you. We do. All right, were following breaking news today and this is out of falls church where crews are on the scene of an explosion at a shopping center. This happened about an hour ago at eden center at Seven Corners where route 7 meets wilson boulevard and route 50. Joce sterman is live on the scene with the breaking details. Whats going on . We have just confirmed with the city of falls church three people were killed in this explosion. None have life threatening injuries. We want to show you the scene. This centers on princess diamonds right here, you can see the windows at the front of the Jewelry Store have been completely blown out and heres basically what happened. Witnesses tell us just after 3 00 today, theyre standing around this mall area boom they hear a massive explosion and the glass goes flying. This impacts, obviously, the Jewelry Store right there and the mall entrance next door to it which also has a lot of damage right up at the front. At this point, the fire which was a twoalarm fire at one point was pretty big smoke coming out both the front and the back of the building here they had to have a lot of mutual aid. Fairfax, arlington as well as the city of falls church and now the a. T. F. On the scene as well investigating exactly what happened here. Now, we talked to a witness earlier today one of the women who was working inside held the door open for him to let him come in. He had just a momentary thought. He didnt want to go into the building for some reason. Something told him to stay out. He turned to walk away. Thats when the explosion happened. Hes standing literally right outside when the explosion happened. Knocked him to his knees and injured one of the women working inside as well as the jeweller and another person. So exactly how this started but the man we were talking to is involved in the jewelry business. He says its not uncommon for a jeweller to have gas involved in the business. They have to melt down metals and gold and also form together diamonds. That may have been the cause of this. Police and fire are on the scene and are now investigating and we will keep you updated right here from falls church. For now, joce sterman, abc 7 news. All right, joce. Well check back in with you in a little bit. Thank you for the latest on the breaking news. New at 4 00 a big step forward for a plan use years in the making. Today, the Virginia Governor announced a 50 million to build a metro station at potomac yard. Thats in alexandria between the Reagan National airport and braddock road stations on yellow and blue lines. Commonwealth transportation board approved the loan to the city of alexandria today. The governor says development in the area is expected to create about 26,000 new jobs and another 13,000 new residences. He says the station would help relieve some of the congestion that would come along with that development. Right now, passengers who had to flee the Lenfant Plaza metro station yesterday are waiting to go back and reclaim the things they had to leave behind. The National Transportation safety board took possession of the items as part of its investigation into the smoke that filled that yellow line station monday. Stephen tschida is live outside of metro headquarters and has the very latest. Stephen . Ok leon this is the very latest. Five minutes ago, i spoke with a representative from the National Transportation safety board that said the train thats involved in this incident has been turned back over to metro after the ntsb conducted its investigation. Into, as far as whats going on here at metro headquarters, the belongings and the possessions that a number of these passengers had to leave on that rail car as they fled for the exits, Lenfant Plaza, well those possessions are in the process of being brought here to metro headquarters. About 10 people, we understand, have showed up here. They are inside. They are waiting to get their belongings that were left on that train. We caught up with one man who says this is what a real ordeal key through the home he rents the room are in his bag and its caused him some major problems. I had to stay in a hotel. My keys are inside the bag. While these passengers, former passengers on the metro line are waiting to get their belongings back, weve heard from the ntsb that as far as forthcoming information about the investigation that they have conducted over there, they dont expect to release any findings until later this week and most likely sometime next week and when that information does come out, it will only be facts. Facts leading up to the incident and facts which it has deduced from its investigation after the smoke at the Lenfant Plaza station. No cause, no findings as to what went wrong. Reporting live stephen tschida, abc 7 news. Thank you stephen. In just the last halfhour, abc 7 news has learned that the only patient still being treated for monday is the incident at Medstar Washington Center has been upgraded to fair condition. Five other people are being treated at the George Washington university hospital. Metro settled all the lawsuits in the wake of that deadly 2009 crash on the red line. Coming up at 4 30 take a look at some of the potential legal scenarios after mondays incident. We turn to the latest on the paris terror attacks. The new edition of Charlie Hebdo hit the stands in paris today and it sold out. Nearly immediately. A copy of the magazines cover was posted with other newspapers from around the world outside the newseum this morning. But the local stores abc 7 checked with said they are not expecting to receive hard copies until friday at the earliest. As karen traverse reports, now an alqaida affiliate in yemen is claiming responsibility for that terrorist attack. A symbolic poignant day across france. Its been exactly one week since two masked gunmen stormed the paris offices of Charlie Hebdo killing 10 stad two police officers. And today, the satirical weekly magazine published their next issue on time. People lined up before dawn waiting to pick up their copy featuring a cartoon image of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover. I wanted to find this magazine has been murdered last week. Charlie hebdo usually prints 60,000 copies of issue. This printing five million. And still, some were out of luck. Newsstands are quickly selling out of all their copies. Some Muslim Leaders in france and around the world blasted the new issue as a provocation and even an act of war. Charlie hebdos publishing comes on the same day that an alqaida affiliate in yemen in a new video claimed responsibility for last weeks horrific terror attack. A senior alqaida leader praising the two gunmen brothers as heroes of islam. He says the terror group chose the target in france laid the plans, financed the operation and appointed its leader. This we believe likely came from a media wing. The latest example of the brutality that is really a calling card. The Obama Administration says that alqaida in yemen is the most dangerous affiliate of the terror group and the global threat. Reporting from northwest, karen traverse abc 7 news. Some Media Outlets like abc 7 chose to show that cover. Others are not. Our question of the day is asking if you think it should be reprinted or broadcast. Go to the wjla Facebook Page to share your thoughts. And then well share some of them a little later in this newscast. Meanwhile, a federal judge is saying that the paris attacks are no reason to delay the Boston Marathon bombing trial. Dzhokhar tsarnaevs lawyers claimed potential jurors would draw parallels between those attacks. Tsarnaev is accused of killing three people and wounding 260 others in a bombing at the Boston Marathon in 2013. Jury selection is scheduled to resume tomorrow. Lawmakers introduced more than 1,000 bills before virginias General Assembly started session today and those bills include the measure that would require a majority vote in order to declare a winner in statewide elections. Without that there would be a runoff between the two top vote geters and another bill would prohibit Police Departments from establishing quotas for arrest or warrant. And a third, perhaps the most controversial, would nearly decriminalize marijuana in the commonwealth. There would be no jail Time Associated with the charge. But it would become a 100 fine. Northern Virginia Bureau chief Jeff Goldberg is in richmond today for us and well have a live report on that coming up at 5 00. Now this mornings session began with a disgraced delegate back in attendance. Delegate joseph morissey. You see him there. He was reelected by his constituents in a special election yesterday. The county lawmaker is serving a six month prison sentence right now as a matter of fact. Hes behind bars serving that sentence after prosecutors claimed that he had sex with a 17yearold employee and yet he will serve in the house of delegates as well at the same time. A maryland governorelect says that he wants to take a look in lowering polls once he takes office. Larry hogan will be sworn in next week. A look at how hogan may mesh with the General Assembly. All eyes this session will be on governorelect larry hogan the republican who won in november in a surprise upset over the democratic Lieutenant Governor anthony brown. Hogan won by hammering away on the issue of taxing and spending. And he comes into office at a time when the state is facing a 400 million budget shortfall meaning theres going to be a lot of drama, a lot of tough decisions about cuts in programs and cuts in aid to the localities. Well see how all that plays out. In the meantime, Senate President mike miller gives hogan high marks for pulling together a bipartisan cabinet. He will be much better than governor to deal with the General Assembly. He had been a congressman on capitol hill, no, on education. No on health care. No on the seniors and came here with that mentality and were going to do things differently. Governor hogan has come in and put his sector, hes from the middle, he has more democrats in his cabinet than republicans. Hes going to try to govern from the middle and hes reached out to myself this morning and reached to senator mikulski and had good relations with the former governor Martin Omalley and right now, hes doing everything right and saying everything right. And it could be that way for four years, who knows . Larry hogan gets sworn in one week from today. He served in the cabinet of bob urlich and many of the people weve spoken to expect him to learn from the mistakes that he made. He crashed with the Democratic Assembly for years and the expectation is hogan is going to do what he can to find common ground. In annapolis, abc 7 news. Ohio man is being held after allegedly threatening the speaker of the house. Thats right, the comments he made about john boehner are still ahead. And a little later, how leaks of negative press may be taking a toll on the university of virginia. Plus the Fire Department did a great job firefighters spring into action after a woman gets stuck between two buildings. A letter sent home to parents about an ill student. What kind of sickness that child has . Thats next on abc 7 on your side with a health ale afternoon. After a Montgomery County student is diagnosed with whooping cough. Montgomery county reporter kevin lewis is live outside of Rachel CarsonElementary School. That school sent home hundreds of letters today, right, kevin . Thats exactly right leon and those letters indicate the student was in a classroom here back on friday, december 19th. That, of course, was the last day of school before winter break began. Well today the Montgomery CountyHealth Department did confirm that that student does have an illness often referred to as whooping cough. Officials now urging parents here at Rachel CarsonElementary School to keep a watchful eye over their childrens health. Pertussis, highly contagious illness shared by coughing, sneezing or sharing food. If youre a parent heres what you need to look out for. Mild coldlike symptoms including cough and runny nose that persists for seven to 10 days. Oftentimes, the cough will then worsen. Sometimes making a distinct whooping sound. In other cases, the cough is so severe, it actually induces vomiting. Officials say the big take home point here should your child show any of these symptoms dont risk it. Call your family doctor. Its important to notify the parents any time theres anything, you know. Otherwise, we wouldnt know. Get it walking down the street. You can, you know get it anywhere you go. So theres not that you can do about it once its out there. Keep yourself healthy. It is worth pointing out it is treatable with antibiotics and we should mention that most students are vaccinated against it. On average, Montgomery County sees about 60 cases a year. This one being the first of 2015. Live in gaithersburg im kevin willis, abc 7 news. Thank you. A mother in virginia is speaking out after claiming she was fired from the church job that she loved because shes pregnant and unmarried. April kellan said she received a glowing job review and a raise last thursday from the baptist church. But monday she was fired from her daycare job because she has not married her fiance or announced a wedding date. And they live together. With children from their previous marriages. It hurts because i grew up in a christian home and a Christian Church my whole life. We want to wait so we can have all of our family and friends there and have a big wedding. I dont want to go to the courthouse and have someone marry us. The churchs pastor says all employees are required to sign a moral code of conduct. Kellam says she never received or signed that. Kellam and her fiance say they are considering all of their legal options. A Brooklyn College student gets stuck in a tight space between two buildings and the dramatic rescue is caught on camera. The 23yearold tumbled off the roof of a four story Apartment Building during a late night party. Cell phone video showed the firefighters rescue efforts and decided to lower two rescue workers down into that shaft after trying to break through a wall which didnt work. The woman was rescued 45 minutes later and taken off to the hospital in serious but stable condition. But now the landlord says he wants to evict her. Wow what a story. All right. Back here locally lets get a check on traffic today with bob emler in the wtop Traffic Center. Hi, bob. Hi alison. Unusually quiet afternoon on the roadways. I guess a lot of people decided not to go to work. But we had dry pavement. Only thing on the road is salt. And really not that much traffic out of tysons traffic is moving pretty well today and things are doing ok on 66. On 270, from montgomery village, lets take a look at what things look like right now on 395 headed south on the pentagon here, you dont see any delay at all. A little further south of landmark, a bit slow and we have a little bit of volume on the beltway at river road. A little bit slow getting up to 270. Not too much. Westbound braddock road at 123, there was a crash. Im bob emler with 103. 5 wtop radio. What a difference from the last time we had some snow come down here. Twohour delay helped. I kind of reversed that and came in two hours early today. Traffic was really easy. Thats good. Handled it very well. Conditions a little more concerned Southern Maryland northern neck. Area got by just fine. I want to start with a video of rehobeth beach delaware. Why . They had more snow than we had here. Thats not surprising. South and east and southeast of the city most of the snow would fall closer to the track rule system and a little snow but during the day, kind of melted from the bottom up. The ground temperatures still above freezing. Up through the boards and there you have it. Also a little closer to washington, George County and a little bit of snow. But in that part of king george nothing accumulated. When you got east of king George County across the potomac and into Charles County another inch or inch and a half of snow in some spots. Temperatures are cold but worked out pretty well here with minimal impact on traffic from the metro area at least. Southern maryland more problems. 1. 7 inches of. Most weve seen reported in calloway. Thats in northern st. Marys county. Culpepper, 1. 3 inches. An inch at stafford a little bit less. So here we go with the snow out of here and now we have a cloudy and cold wednesday afternoon. 27 in gaithersburg. 31 in quantico. 33 at Reagan National. Were going to drop between 21 and 28 degrees for the overnight lows. While were sleeping the skies will clear a bit as High Pressure moves in, nice partly t