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Slamming in the massachusetts coast before snow was falling sideways when that arrived there. Jonathan the city that never sleeps got blanketed. Michelle stormwatch7 Team Coverage with chief meteorologist doug hill following the storm and the local advisories. Alison lana zak is in central park but well begin with doug and the Winter Weather alert. It is old out there. Doug it is and we were barely touched compared to what happened up the coast. We are getting the backlash now. The blizzard conditions stretch from rhode island through boston to the coast of maine. Enormous lightning with the system as well. It continues to intensify at this hour. Look how quickly it has dropped a lot of snow. In massachusetts they have 18 inches of snow so far. 17 in connecticut. Springfield, massachusetts, 13. Almost a foot in fairfield. And in central park in new york city, nine inches of snow on the ground. That is exactly where we find abcs lana zak bundled up against the big february lana . Lana hi there, doug. More than 3,000 flights have been canceled. Here in new york city, john f. Kennedy airport issued a complete ground stop. Everybody trying to stay safe as we are facing this winter whiplash. Hear that noise . [thunder] that is thunder snow in connecticut. Okay, all right, all right. 50 million americans affected by the storm. Schools canceled. Commuters staying home. The biggest danger are the slick roads. Look at the tractor trailer on i87. In suffolk county, new york, state of emergency were declared. First responders had to flip over a truck that collided with an s. U. V. Authorities are urging everyone to stay off the roads. These roads are bad. They will only get worse with the snow accumulation and the wind. Lana yesterday was a different story. A perfect spring day. Wednesday record high 62 degrees in central park. What a change from yester degree out here. I cant believe that yesterday i had no coat on. Now there is more than nine inches of snow in central park. More than a foot on the ground in locations across connecticut. In some areas the snowfall coming at a rate of four inches per hour. Blizzard Warnings Issued for massachusetts, connecticut, new york, rhode island. But not everyone can stay off the roads. I was screaming, telling them to hurry up. I thought the baby was coming in the car. My water broke in the car. Lana a new mother, a new haven. Both mother and baby are healthy. Doug, i want to show you something here. Today i am seeing kids in sled. This is a tremendous change. The mayor of new york city saying they have never experienced anything like this. Reporting live from new york city, lana zak, abc7 news. Back to you. Doug thank you, lana. The snow is going to stay on the ground and stay cold in new days. Around here, we have a pretty good snow squall and snowshowers to the west of the metro area. We are tracking one near dulles. The visibility is very low, its near whiteout conditions now because of a squall along 66 coming west of the district, heading to the western section of fairfax county. That will affect traffic temporarily. The winds are driving the snowshowers from the great lakes. We have had a gust in the past hour to 40 Miles Per Hour in wint. 31mileperhour 40 Miles Per Hour gusts in winchester and 31mileperhour in the metro. What is coming up and what do we have in store . Well let you know in a few minutes. Michelle intense wind gusts bringing down wires in falls church. This is north of route 7. Fairfax county Police Warning drives to find warning this area. It will be closed until midnight. This is the scene in philadelphia. There is a plane on the tarmac. They have whiteout conditions there. Thousands of flights have been canceled. There is a plane in the tarmac as we just showed you. Its tough to see, though. This is having a cascading effect across the country. Jeff goldberg is at national airport. Many travelers are seeking other options, right . Jeff no question. That is what we have seen, the cascading effect. Throughout the day it has gotten a little better with the departures. A lot of on time and flight delays for other part of the country. But there are problems, cancellation and delays of a couple of hours going into new york. That is a situation that is disrupting travelers quite a bit. We spoke to several travel evidences dealing with the delays from the travelers dealing with the delays from the storm. From three or four hours up to 24 hours. People are flying to south and the west. They are delayed because of the planes that got stuck in the northeast storm. The ripple effect. More than 3,500 flights have canceled because of the storm today or last night. Many again at j. F. K. , laguardia and boston. The air travelers here are taking it in stride. I get upset. Why get upset . They cant do anything. Im frustrated we couldnt get out last night. Its winter. Jeff its winter. You have to take it in stride. Its cold out here but hard to believe that the snow is causing massive problems everywhere. Considering the weather is not so bad here. Not just impacting air travel. Well tell you more at 5 00. Plus a cool visual to show you significant the impact of the storm has been on travel overall. Live at reagan airport, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. Alison thank you for that. Even on the go. You can get instant forecast wherever you are through the storm watch 7 weather app on google play and the app store as well. 24 hours ago, Matthew Stager right there was captured. He is that tattooed covered, convicted sex offender who took off. Instead of going to a Halfway House he ended up in d. C. Today is Stephen Tschida caught up with some in d. C. Who saw sago and his takedown steps from a conspicuous place. Stephen this is what you call a distinctive mug. Pretty easy to identify. A lot of tattoos. All put together some type of way. Stephen some might call it put together in the extreme. 45yearold Matthew Stager, a convicted sex offender released from a federal correctional facility tuesday. He hit the d. C. Streets instead of t texas from richmond to check in to a Halfway House. I think it is pretty bold. Stephen yesterday at 4 00, in front of the d. C. Superior court and just down the block from Police Headquarters stager came walking down the sidewalk. Two Police Officers spotted him and jumped out of their vehicle and they nabbed him. Its a little chaos going on. All the tattoos. I dont know what is going on. They snapped him up. I dont know. Stephen stager is behind bars and instead of heading to a facility in texas, he faces escape charge that could send him back to prison. Stephen tschida, abc7 news. Michelle the lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine heading back to court as the publication tries to get the november verdict overturned. The jury awarded the university of virginia administrator nicole eramo 3 million after she said the magazine defamed her after chronicling a gang rape at fraternity house. They later retracted the story. Take a look at this. This man is wanted in a string of robberies in prince georges county. The latest on monday at the m t bank on oxon hill road. The two others a Cricket Wireless store in District Heights and a radio shack in hyattsville. Call police if you know who he is. Alison president trumps cabinet is slowly taking shape. Attorney general Jeff Sessions arrived at the department of justice headquarters for his first day on the job. He survived a near Party Line Vote in the senate through a brutal confirmation process. Jonathan now with sessions leaving the senate, here is the replacement. Luther strange will take the seat from alabama. Robert bentley making the pick ensuring the republicans wont majority in the chamber. Donald trump says he is standing up for his daughter ivanka after nordstrom announced they will drop her line from the store. Brad bell has the battle. Brad the discourse veered from immigration and security to Womens Clothing and sportswear. From executive orders to failing orders. For ivanka trump fashion line. This is a direct attack on his policies and her name. It all started when nordstrom announced because of suddenly weak sales they would no longer stock ivanka branded merchandise. The president fired off this tweet in response saying ivanka has been treated so unfairly by nordstrom. Outside the Nordstrom Rack in chevy chase this trump supporter agrees. She says the president has a right to tweet as he pleases. The press is roy yolic vitriolic toward him. Tweeting is the only way he can get to the public. I dont mind that. Brad in annapolis nordstrom we find a different point of view. Its unrofessional, especially for the position he holds. As president you should be above that. Brad in chevy chase, brad bell, abc7 news. Jonathan the war on terror the top u. S. Commander in afghanistan says he needs a few thousand more troops in afghanistan. That would be to train and advise the afghan military. Currently there are 8,400 troops aiding in the war on terror in afghanistan. Alison coming up next at 4 00, the path in russia has women angry and fearing for their safety. Jonathan also why they need more than donald trump to survive. Michelle and the road to recovery. More than two decades of hard work gone in a flash. Im inside with the customers and a fire the food truck the owner speaks only to abc7. The reason he ignored his doctors advice to get back to jonathan when it happened you could see the smoke all around George Washingtons university campus. This was in november. Horrible situation. A popular food truck that burst into flames. Michelle you know the owner hasnt talked about that fire until now. Q mccray with how he is trying to get his business back on track. A story you will only see on 7. My thought and prayers for his families. It was surreal. Q no one felt it more than nasser. I couldnt see the video. Q the falafel bus was his. A business he cooked up in 1990. Tuns ian immigrant chasing the american dream. Its the heat of the lunch truck on food truck row. He is hard at work with the employees. Im serving the customers and a fire. Q in no times flames ands black smoke fill the air. Cell phones capture every moment. I go outside, the generator. I try to put it out of the generator compartment. Its portable. I got burned. Q he was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. Fire 26 years of hard work and dedication charred to a crisp. According to d. C. Fire and e. M. S. The generator malfunctioned or wasnt used properly. Negra is constantly reminded of the mishap. Doctors used skin from his thighs to repair his thirddegree burns. Thank god. I wasnt handicapped completely. Im doing good. Thank you. Q doctors ordered him off his feet for a year to rehab but mounting bills forced him back to work in eight weeks. The problem is business is slow. The traces of metal from the other truck. Q even though he set up in the exact spot he was two months ago. I thought of quitting actually. Some people say no, dont quit. So i am staying. Q in northwest washington, q mccray, abc7 news. Alison lets turn to b last two days 80 kids were sunday home from one school from arlington. Tim barber is live at Oakridge Elementary School with what Health Officials believe is happening here. What do they think the kids have, tim . Tim they believe it could be the norovirus although they are still working to confirm that. You can see a school bus ready to take the kids home. 80 kids have been sent home. Its similar to the flu and they could get it by touching contaminated surfaces. But some are not worried. They are saying its a good reminder to be careful and wash their hands. We are going to talk to the cool officials. We will bring it to you live. Reporting live, tim barber, abc7 news. Alison thank you. Twitter is having hard time making president tweeting in the election. They announce the Fourth Quarter earnings and the results are not great. They missed analyst expectations by tens of millions of dollars. The revenue but also down from the year before. Abc7 on traffic watch. Trenice bishop has a look at the ride home. Hi there. Trenice we have a couple of things happening on the beltway. We will go to the big picture so you can see the volume beginning to pop up around 495. Here, just beyond the camera at good luck we have a report of an accident blocking two right lanes at 450. Traveling through prince georges county, a slow trip. The volume delays on the beltway inner loop this afternoon. Coming away from college park take you to the mitchellville area. On the other side of the beltway in virginia, it looks like he just pulled off. I had a stalled tractor trailer that was off to the right side of the roadway here at live oak drive. Jonathan thank you. You heard the old express, red sun at night, sailor delight. Red sun at morning, sailor take warning. This is sunrise in massachusetts before a storm moved in and makes a mess of things. Michelle that looks pretty. That express held true today. This is plymouth. The snow coming in sideways off the coast. This is a brutal storm hitting the area. Jonathan the same coast. All the areas there getting blasted. Alison what was so striking to me was lana zak in central park and how she said yesterday people were jogging in shorts and today the kids are sledding. Doug crazy thing. A huge temperature drop like we did. The storm didnt intensify until it passed us by. Yesterday the caveat was the cold air. But now we have something happening. There are pretty good snow squalls. This is a live weat camera at chantilly at the science building. There are more snow qualities. This is the doppler product. Everything blue is snow here. But you can see there are good patches of snow. Some of the heavy stuff is passing over 66. Its over i95 now south from lorton and heading south. That is going to slow down traffic temporarily. Lets switch modes. This is all from fairfax to marshall, that is all snow. We are tracking it to the southeast at the current speed. So coming up in ten minutes, dale city will get a heavy snow squall and it will continue to waldorf and la plata. Some of this could cross over. This is headed to re neck. There is more coming. We think after sunset it will diminish. The winds will stay up and cold and the skies will clear overnight. By midnight most areas will be air temperature in the 20s. Plenty cold. Wakeup temperature is ten to 20. 21 in ashburn. Leesburg, 23. In martinsburg and hancock. In the local metro area we are expecting numbers not much warmer. 18 in damascus. 20 in fairfax. 23 in pasadena. 21 in upper marlboro. And in college park. So at the bus stop tomorrow morning, yes, there will be school. The good things about the winds, everything is bone dry. Its just cold. 25 at pickup time. 33 at recess time. 38 degrees at dismissal time. I will give you a look at the weekend because we promise another draw mattic warmup. Here it another dramatic warmup. Here it comes. The clouds will increase throw the day and the average high is 46. We will have a chance of showers north of metro but it will be in the in a few minutes we will look at the brand new updated tenday outlook. Jonathan thank you. This is no april fools joke. The nationals and the red sox will play an exhibition game at the u. S. Naval academy at april 1. That is inviteonly. But the day before they will play at nats park and everyone has an opportunity to buy tickets for that game. Tickets are on sale now. Michelle next at 4 00, vandals send a new message to drivers and the white house on the beltway. Jonathan the wedding registry you will have a hard time to get your fiancee to sign off on. Trust me. You will. Michelle also this lock your door. Alison the gladiators uncover shocking new evidence about the night that frankie was i work ovi need when i my blood sugar to stay in control. So i asked about tresiba®. Tresiba® ready tresiba® is a oncedaily, longacting insulin that lasts even longer than 24 hours. I need to cut my a1c. Tresiba® works like my bodys insulin. Releases slow and steady. Providing powerful a1c reduction. My week . Hectic. My weekends . My time. Tresiba® ready i can take tresiba® any time of day. So if i sleep in, and delay my dose, i take it as soon as i can, as long as theres at least 8 hours between doses. 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Ask your Health Care Provider if youre tresiba® ready. Covered by most insurance and medicare plans. Tresiba® ready kidd scandal is all new tonight on abc7. Right now we have your preview of tonights episode with your scandal scoop. Tonight on scandal cyrus is surprised by a cryptic call from abby warning him to close his doors. Close them and lock the door. Shut down the wifi. Get a handler or fixer, attorney because in 30 seconds you no longer talk kidd she finally understands the message after seeing this. Good morning. The f. B. I. Is expanding the investigation into the death of governor francisco vargas. Are you saying nelson mcclinton did not shoot him . Not at all. Were opening the scope of the investigation. To include who . Anyone and everyone. Even cyrus beene . Anyone and everyone. Kidd what happens next . Find out in tonights episode titled fates worse than death airing tonight at 9 00 on abc7. With the scandal scoop, im kidd oshea. Michelle fates worse than death . Wow t. G. I. T. Starts tonight next for us at abc7 news at 4 00, russian president Vladimir Putin approved a law decriminalizing some forms of Team Coverage<\/a> with chief meteorologist doug hill following the storm and the local advisories. Alison lana zak is in central park but well begin with doug and the Winter Weather<\/a> alert. It is old out there. Doug it is and we were barely touched compared to what happened up the coast. We are getting the backlash now. The blizzard conditions stretch from rhode island through boston to the coast of maine. Enormous lightning with the system as well. It continues to intensify at this hour. Look how quickly it has dropped a lot of snow. In massachusetts they have 18 inches of snow so far. 17 in connecticut. Springfield, massachusetts, 13. Almost a foot in fairfield. And in central park in new york city, nine inches of snow on the ground. That is exactly where we find abcs lana zak bundled up against the big february lana . Lana hi there, doug. More than 3,000 flights have been canceled. Here in new york city, john f. Kennedy airport issued a complete ground stop. Everybody trying to stay safe as we are facing this winter whiplash. Hear that noise . [thunder] that is thunder snow in connecticut. Okay, all right, all right. 50 million americans affected by the storm. Schools canceled. Commuters staying home. The biggest danger are the slick roads. Look at the tractor trailer on i87. In suffolk county, new york, state of emergency were declared. First responders had to flip over a truck that collided with an s. U. V. Authorities are urging everyone to stay off the roads. These roads are bad. They will only get worse with the snow accumulation and the wind. Lana yesterday was a different story. A perfect spring day. Wednesday record high 62 degrees in central park. What a change from yester degree out here. I cant believe that yesterday i had no coat on. Now there is more than nine inches of snow in central park. More than a foot on the ground in locations across connecticut. In some areas the snowfall coming at a rate of four inches per hour. Blizzard Warnings Issued<\/a> for massachusetts, connecticut, new york, rhode island. But not everyone can stay off the roads. I was screaming, telling them to hurry up. I thought the baby was coming in the car. My water broke in the car. Lana a new mother, a new haven. Both mother and baby are healthy. Doug, i want to show you something here. Today i am seeing kids in sled. This is a tremendous change. The mayor of new york city saying they have never experienced anything like this. Reporting live from new york city, lana zak, abc7 news. Back to you. Doug thank you, lana. The snow is going to stay on the ground and stay cold in new days. Around here, we have a pretty good snow squall and snowshowers to the west of the metro area. We are tracking one near dulles. The visibility is very low, its near whiteout conditions now because of a squall along 66 coming west of the district, heading to the western section of fairfax county. That will affect traffic temporarily. The winds are driving the snowshowers from the great lakes. We have had a gust in the past hour to 40 Miles Per Hour<\/a> in wint. 31mileperhour 40 Miles Per Hour<\/a> gusts in winchester and 31mileperhour in the metro. What is coming up and what do we have in store . Well let you know in a few minutes. Michelle intense wind gusts bringing down wires in falls church. This is north of route 7. Fairfax county Police Warning<\/a> drives to find warning this area. It will be closed until midnight. This is the scene in philadelphia. There is a plane on the tarmac. They have whiteout conditions there. Thousands of flights have been canceled. There is a plane in the tarmac as we just showed you. Its tough to see, though. This is having a cascading effect across the country. Jeff goldberg is at national airport. Many travelers are seeking other options, right . Jeff no question. That is what we have seen, the cascading effect. Throughout the day it has gotten a little better with the departures. A lot of on time and flight delays for other part of the country. But there are problems, cancellation and delays of a couple of hours going into new york. That is a situation that is disrupting travelers quite a bit. We spoke to several travel evidences dealing with the delays from the travelers dealing with the delays from the storm. From three or four hours up to 24 hours. People are flying to south and the west. They are delayed because of the planes that got stuck in the northeast storm. The ripple effect. More than 3,500 flights have canceled because of the storm today or last night. Many again at j. F. K. , laguardia and boston. The air travelers here are taking it in stride. I get upset. Why get upset . They cant do anything. Im frustrated we couldnt get out last night. Its winter. Jeff its winter. You have to take it in stride. Its cold out here but hard to believe that the snow is causing massive problems everywhere. Considering the weather is not so bad here. Not just impacting air travel. Well tell you more at 5 00. Plus a cool visual to show you significant the impact of the storm has been on travel overall. Live at reagan airport, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. Alison thank you for that. Even on the go. You can get instant forecast wherever you are through the storm watch 7 weather app on google play and the app store as well. 24 hours ago, Matthew Stager<\/a> right there was captured. He is that tattooed covered, convicted sex offender who took off. Instead of going to a Halfway House<\/a> he ended up in d. C. Today is Stephen Tschida<\/a> caught up with some in d. C. Who saw sago and his takedown steps from a conspicuous place. Stephen this is what you call a distinctive mug. Pretty easy to identify. A lot of tattoos. All put together some type of way. Stephen some might call it put together in the extreme. 45yearold Matthew Stager<\/a>, a convicted sex offender released from a federal correctional facility tuesday. He hit the d. C. Streets instead of t texas from richmond to check in to a Halfway House<\/a>. I think it is pretty bold. Stephen yesterday at 4 00, in front of the d. C. Superior court and just down the block from Police Headquarters<\/a> stager came walking down the sidewalk. Two Police Officers<\/a> spotted him and jumped out of their vehicle and they nabbed him. Its a little chaos going on. All the tattoos. I dont know what is going on. They snapped him up. I dont know. Stephen stager is behind bars and instead of heading to a facility in texas, he faces escape charge that could send him back to prison. Stephen tschida, abc7 news. Michelle the lawsuit against Rolling Stone<\/a> magazine heading back to court as the publication tries to get the november verdict overturned. The jury awarded the university of virginia administrator nicole eramo 3 million after she said the magazine defamed her after chronicling a gang rape at fraternity house. They later retracted the story. Take a look at this. This man is wanted in a string of robberies in prince georges county. The latest on monday at the m t bank on oxon hill road. The two others a Cricket Wireless<\/a> store in District Heights<\/a> and a radio shack in hyattsville. Call police if you know who he is. Alison president trumps cabinet is slowly taking shape. Attorney general Jeff Sessions<\/a> arrived at the department of justice headquarters for his first day on the job. He survived a near Party Line Vote<\/a> in the senate through a brutal confirmation process. Jonathan now with sessions leaving the senate, here is the replacement. Luther strange will take the seat from alabama. Robert bentley making the pick ensuring the republicans wont majority in the chamber. Donald trump says he is standing up for his daughter ivanka after nordstrom announced they will drop her line from the store. Brad bell has the battle. Brad the discourse veered from immigration and security to Womens Clothing<\/a> and sportswear. From executive orders to failing orders. For ivanka trump fashion line. This is a direct attack on his policies and her name. It all started when nordstrom announced because of suddenly weak sales they would no longer stock ivanka branded merchandise. The president fired off this tweet in response saying ivanka has been treated so unfairly by nordstrom. Outside the Nordstrom Rack<\/a> in chevy chase this trump supporter agrees. She says the president has a right to tweet as he pleases. The press is roy yolic vitriolic toward him. Tweeting is the only way he can get to the public. I dont mind that. Brad in annapolis nordstrom we find a different point of view. Its unrofessional, especially for the position he holds. As president you should be above that. Brad in chevy chase, brad bell, abc7 news. Jonathan the war on terror the top u. S. Commander in afghanistan says he needs a few thousand more troops in afghanistan. That would be to train and advise the afghan military. Currently there are 8,400 troops aiding in the war on terror in afghanistan. Alison coming up next at 4 00, the path in russia has women angry and fearing for their safety. Jonathan also why they need more than donald trump to survive. Michelle and the road to recovery. More than two decades of hard work gone in a flash. Im inside with the customers and a fire the food truck the owner speaks only to abc7. The reason he ignored his doctors advice to get back to jonathan when it happened you could see the smoke all around George Washingtons<\/a> university campus. This was in november. Horrible situation. A popular food truck that burst into flames. Michelle you know the owner hasnt talked about that fire until now. Q mccray with how he is trying to get his business back on track. A story you will only see on 7. My thought and prayers for his families. It was surreal. Q no one felt it more than nasser. I couldnt see the video. Q the falafel bus was his. A business he cooked up in 1990. Tuns ian immigrant chasing the american dream. Its the heat of the lunch truck on food truck row. He is hard at work with the employees. Im serving the customers and a fire. Q in no times flames ands black smoke fill the air. Cell phones capture every moment. I go outside, the generator. I try to put it out of the generator compartment. Its portable. I got burned. Q he was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. Fire 26 years of hard work and dedication charred to a crisp. According to d. C. Fire and e. M. S. The generator malfunctioned or wasnt used properly. Negra is constantly reminded of the mishap. Doctors used skin from his thighs to repair his thirddegree burns. Thank god. I wasnt handicapped completely. Im doing good. Thank you. Q doctors ordered him off his feet for a year to rehab but mounting bills forced him back to work in eight weeks. The problem is business is slow. The traces of metal from the other truck. Q even though he set up in the exact spot he was two months ago. I thought of quitting actually. Some people say no, dont quit. So i am staying. Q in northwest washington, q mccray, abc7 news. Alison lets turn to b last two days 80 kids were sunday home from one school from arlington. Tim barber is live at Oakridge Elementary School<\/a> with what Health Officials<\/a> believe is happening here. What do they think the kids have, tim . Tim they believe it could be the norovirus although they are still working to confirm that. You can see a school bus ready to take the kids home. 80 kids have been sent home. Its similar to the flu and they could get it by touching contaminated surfaces. But some are not worried. They are saying its a good reminder to be careful and wash their hands. We are going to talk to the cool officials. We will bring it to you live. Reporting live, tim barber, abc7 news. Alison thank you. Twitter is having hard time making president tweeting in the election. They announce the Fourth Quarter<\/a> earnings and the results are not great. They missed analyst expectations by tens of millions of dollars. The revenue but also down from the year before. Abc7 on traffic watch. Trenice bishop has a look at the ride home. Hi there. Trenice we have a couple of things happening on the beltway. We will go to the big picture so you can see the volume beginning to pop up around 495. Here, just beyond the camera at good luck we have a report of an accident blocking two right lanes at 450. Traveling through prince georges county, a slow trip. The volume delays on the beltway inner loop this afternoon. Coming away from college park take you to the mitchellville area. On the other side of the beltway in virginia, it looks like he just pulled off. I had a stalled tractor trailer that was off to the right side of the roadway here at live oak drive. Jonathan thank you. You heard the old express, red sun at night, sailor delight. Red sun at morning, sailor take warning. This is sunrise in massachusetts before a storm moved in and makes a mess of things. Michelle that looks pretty. That express held true today. This is plymouth. The snow coming in sideways off the coast. This is a brutal storm hitting the area. Jonathan the same coast. All the areas there getting blasted. Alison what was so striking to me was lana zak in central park and how she said yesterday people were jogging in shorts and today the kids are sledding. Doug crazy thing. A huge temperature drop like we did. The storm didnt intensify until it passed us by. Yesterday the caveat was the cold air. But now we have something happening. There are pretty good snow squalls. This is a live weat camera at chantilly at the science building. There are more snow qualities. This is the doppler product. Everything blue is snow here. But you can see there are good patches of snow. Some of the heavy stuff is passing over 66. Its over i95 now south from lorton and heading south. That is going to slow down traffic temporarily. Lets switch modes. This is all from fairfax to marshall, that is all snow. We are tracking it to the southeast at the current speed. So coming up in ten minutes, dale city will get a heavy snow squall and it will continue to waldorf and la plata. Some of this could cross over. This is headed to re neck. There is more coming. We think after sunset it will diminish. The winds will stay up and cold and the skies will clear overnight. By midnight most areas will be air temperature in the 20s. Plenty cold. Wakeup temperature is ten to 20. 21 in ashburn. Leesburg, 23. In martinsburg and hancock. In the local metro area we are expecting numbers not much warmer. 18 in damascus. 20 in fairfax. 23 in pasadena. 21 in upper marlboro. And in college park. So at the bus stop tomorrow morning, yes, there will be school. The good things about the winds, everything is bone dry. Its just cold. 25 at pickup time. 33 at recess time. 38 degrees at dismissal time. I will give you a look at the weekend because we promise another draw mattic warmup. Here it another dramatic warmup. Here it comes. The clouds will increase throw the day and the average high is 46. We will have a chance of showers north of metro but it will be in the in a few minutes we will look at the brand new updated tenday outlook. Jonathan thank you. This is no april fools joke. The nationals and the red sox will play an exhibition game at the u. S. Naval academy at april 1. That is inviteonly. But the day before they will play at nats park and everyone has an opportunity to buy tickets for that game. Tickets are on sale now. Michelle next at 4 00, vandals send a new message to drivers and the white house on the beltway. Jonathan the wedding registry you will have a hard time to get your fiancee to sign off on. Trust me. You will. Michelle also this lock your door. Alison the gladiators uncover shocking new evidence about the night that frankie was i work ovi need when i my blood sugar to stay in control. So i asked about tresiba\u00ae. Tresiba\u00ae ready tresiba\u00ae is a oncedaily, longacting insulin that lasts even longer than 24 hours. I need to cut my a1c. Tresiba\u00ae works like my bodys insulin. Releases slow and steady. Providing powerful a1c reduction. My week . Hectic. My weekends . My time. Tresiba\u00ae ready i can take tresiba\u00ae any time of day. 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Find out in tonights episode titled fates worse than death airing tonight at 9 00 on abc7. With the scandal scoop, im kidd oshea. Michelle fates worse than death . Wow t. G. I. T. Starts tonight next for us at abc7 news at 4 00, russian president Vladimir Putin<\/a> approved a law decriminalizing some forms of Domestic Violence<\/a>. Sounds crazy . Well explain next. Vandalism along the beltway taking direct aim at office. Im kevin lewis with that story still ahead. Brianne safetrack is back and it impacts the entire blue line. What you need to know for the commute. Well outline that and how safetrack may impact metros bottom line more than why are you checking i want to see if it changed. Credit scores dont change that much do they . Really . Ill take it sir, your credit. When was the last time you checked . Yeah, i better check my credit score. Here, try credit karma. Its free. Alright, no more surprises. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. What does it feel like . Like . 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You will wick up three or four inches you will pick up three or four inches in an hour. This is nixing bowl. A vdot camera. Not the best resolution but you can see the snowflakes. There are more of those in the next few hours. Not going to do any damage. You can see it doppler. Its 95 on the lefthand side of the screen. That that will move southeast to split it on if potomac or the maryland side. There are a few more of those upstream. There will be snowshowers but after the sunset in an hour or so, they should begin to diminish. Later tonight the clearing skies will still be breezy but not as windy. 18 to 25 degrees. The temperature span by tomorrow morning. The day planner for friday is going to start off cold. No doubt, 25. That is the downtown temperature. Lower 20s in suburban areas. 33 at midday with sunshine. Clouds will start to increase late in the day. The highs of only 38 degrees. Now lets give you a lack ahead at the next ten days. Well go near 40 tomorrow. Jump to 59 on saturday. Only a little bit of sunshine. Cloudy day on sunday but mid60s. Maybe showers. The best chance is north of washington. Windy and it will turn cooler on monday. We have a dry week we expect. Th down and stay in the average category for middle of february. Jonathan we havent seen average in a while. Freedom of speech on display along the beltway. But in this case not without breaking the law. Michelle kevin lewis with a message that is hard to miss. Its just a bridge. Kevin blue paint conveys a blue message along the beltway in kensington. The words bridges not walls. Seemingly taking aim at president Donald Trumps<\/a> promise to build a robust barrier along the u. S. Mexico boarder to keep undocumented immigrants out. So far, tens of thousands of motorists have passed the one world rhetoric. I saw it on tuesday. Kevin including Silver Spring<\/a> attorney mcnamara. You can see that people feel passionately about the president and what he is doing. Its one additional express. This is different because its graffiti and on public property but i ddn offensive. Kevin offcamera, one group told us it respects free speech but not illegal vandalism, especially in a precarious spot such as this with undeniable threat of falling to the busy beltway or being flattened by a freight train. They are willing to take the risk. We live in riskreward society. Good news is they didnt fall off the tracks. Kevin we contacted the police about the vandalism but the department has no idea who defaced the bridge. Reporting in can kensington, kevin lewis. Michelle this just in from hollywood. The clooneys are expecting twins and they are due in june. Rumors have been swirling in hollywood for months. The 39yearold attorney married the 55yearold Actor George Clooney<\/a> in 2014. Jonathan 7 on your side with a consumer alert. Market to buy a home. Mortgage rates are sliding a bit. The average right now on 30year fixed loan down to 4. 17 on average. That is a couple of ticks lower than last week. For perspective on the climb in Mortgage Rates<\/a> the average for all of last year was 3. 65 . Michelle anthem and cigna major Health Insurance<\/a> rifles cannot merge. That is a decision from the judge in california saying it would lead to higher cost for you, the consumer, by eliminating some competition. The u. S. Department of justice sued last summer to block the deal. There is good news on the job market. Fewer americans are signing up for unemployment benefits. The number reaching a 12week low this past week. 234,000. Typically anything under 300,000 is viewed as healthy for the economy. We have been below that number for 101 consecutive weeks now. Jonathan another recall alert to tell you about this time nearly 100,000 sports cars are affected by it. The air bags. They might not deploy. 20062010 pontiac solstices. And 20072010 saturn sky. The twoseaters are not even made anymore but a sensor that can determine if the child is in the passenger seat can bend and it eventually turns off the air bag. In russia some case of Domestic Violence<\/a> now carrying a much lesser punishment. Michelle this is after russian president Vladimir Putin<\/a> reportedly signed a law decriminalizing the offense. Amy aubert joins us now with the latest on this. This seems really tough to justify. Amy well, absolutely. For a firsttime offender this new law would make Domestic Violence<\/a> an administrative offense as opposed to a criminal offense. This is according to the Russian News Agency<\/a> taft. Lets get into what this mean face 10 to 15 days in jail. A fine, in american dollars could amount to 85 and 500. Or up to 120 hours of community service. This is all reportedly for offenses that dont result in serious injury. And guys, they are reporting that violators charged with multiple assaults could face harsher consequences. Jonathan any idea what precipitated the change . Amy not sure. Jonathan Vladimir Putin<\/a> thought it was a good idea . Amy your guess is as good as mine. Jonathan wow thank you. Michelle next from clinton to conway and ghostbusters. Kate mckinnon is a master of voices. A new one is fictional but you probably know her already. Her netflix project next. Jonathan plus the dominoes wedding registry. I said it right. Its real. What you can get in the posthoneymoon adjustment to reallife packages. That is coming michelle but here is julie wright Jummy Olabanji<\/a> with how to start friday on good morning washington. Tomorrow on good morning washington, safetrack surge 12 this weekend where you expect total metro shutdown. I sit down with alec baldwin. The size of his pay czech to play donald trump on s. N. L. May surprise fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Which means we can deliver equal uploads and downloads. Lcome to 8 and a half maple reet. Ithalf a house. And even though it only has half a kitchen, half the closet space and a half bath, its a full house to the wilsons. Because they have fios, their half house has full internet, with uploads as fast as downloads. Dont pay for uploads that arent up to speed. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for only 79. 99 per month online for one year. Only from fios. Jonathan it looks like saturday night live star Kate Mckinnon<\/a> is going back to school but netflix style. They are reviving the 1990s cartoon Magic School Bus<\/a> and she will voice the role of the teacher miss frizzle. Michelle it follows her class on field trips on a magical yellow bus. Release date is not announced. Jonathan all the kids love it. Michelle k. F. C. Somehow continues to reinvent fried chicken. Jonathan anything fried chicken. Thats me. This is the chiza. Its chicken pizza. Only in singapore for right now. A chicken pizza. You can actually customize it with the different topics. The reviews so far are mixed. We are working to get a calorie count and more specifically a taste test for ourselves. Michelle the whole base is fried chicken. Jonathan taco bell did this already. They made the shell of the taco with the frayed chicken. Michelle everyone is catching on. Jonathan to the be outdone, dominoes now has a wedding registry. Good luck to convince your fiancee on that one. Michelle couples can register for egift card or food. Package called post honeymoon adjustment to real life. Pizza and salad. Jonathan they do salads. Michelle apparently. Who knew . Michelle coming up on abc7 news at 4 00 this superheros happy dance. So sweet. His medical milestone that will melt your heart coming up. Mike im mike carterconneen at the Verizon Center<\/a>. Today the Interscholastic Athletic Association<\/a> celebrated the National Girls<\/a> and womens sports day. From professional sports w jonathan want to update you on a story we brought you tuesday. The Charlotte City<\/a> council is voting to remove the statue robert e. Lee from downtown. Two republican candidates from the commonwealth, Corey Stewart<\/a> and Denver Riggleman<\/a> announcing they want the statue to stay put. What is not clear is if the statu state law says it is illegal to disturb a war memorial. Michelle now a 7 on your side consumer alert. This is so halved to forget. You remember the toddler barely escaping with his life after a dresser toppled over on him . But not every family is so lucky. Tonight at 11 00, is Senior Investigative<\/a> reporter Lisa Fletcher<\/a> shows you some of the deadliest traps for your kids and the simple fix that takes 5 and five minutes that could save your childs life. There was nothing that they could do. So, my whole life was changed. It was. Michelle you dont want to miss this. A fight to prevent other parents from this. Dont miss quality fatal falls at 11 00. Jonathan look at the fellow in superman shirt ringing the bell . That is superboy. The 6yearold jimmy is jumping up and down for good reason. Jumping for joy. He finished his yearlong chemotherapy treatment. At 4 months old the doctor discovered the tumor in his brain and they deemed it inoperable. But thanks to treatment it has shrunk to the point that they believe jimmy can live with it and without a problem. Michelle great news there. Thank you, john. For the first time today the d. C. Interscholastic Athletic Association<\/a> formally celebrated National Girls<\/a> an womens sports day. As mike carterconneen reports, dozen of female student athletes from across d. C. Got words of wisdom and encouragement. Normally face off on d. C. Basketball court or soccer fields. Today the student athletes came together at the Verizon Center<\/a> to celebrate sisterhood. As women we should come together to support each other. It shows unity and we do care about this. High School Junior<\/a> madeleine plays volleyball and basketball. She is frustrated her male peers still get more recognition and respect. They have the dance team, the cheerleaders. There are no cheerleaders at the girls team. Why arent you cheering for us . Mike she celebrated women in sports with High School Delegation<\/a> from across the district with a similar experience. Boys get the Good Practice<\/a> time. The girls have to practice whenever. The boys play at 7 00 when everybody is there. The girls we got to play at 3 00 right after school. Nobody is off. Mike at the event students asked questions and got advice from professional athletes and coaches. Reach out the to friends who are not involved in sports currently and tell your story. The sports world are still dominated by men. Even in h jersey red wings were practicing on the ice for tonights game against the capitals and the monitors at the club level featured highlights from a past allstar game. Women are just as camable as men are in sports. Mike madeleine hopes to get a College Scholarship<\/a> and pursue a career in Sports Management<\/a> to push for more equity. It doesnt matter if you are a girl or boy. Your Skills Matter<\/a> and the sportsmanship matters. Attitude matters. Mike mike carterconneen, abc7 news. The white house says Kellyanne Conway<\/a> has been counseled after touting ivanka trumps products. Its the subject of the instapoll question tonight. Go to wjla. Com votenow to let us know what you think. Jonathan what happened was her response, her remarks were in response to nordstrom discontinuing ivankas brand from the stores like this this was a white house matter. Lindsey mastis shows us how its playing out on social media. Lindsey there has been a lot of reaction on social media, especially after this tweet. This is from oversight dems. This shows a letter from representative Elijah Cummings<\/a> asking to refer Kellyanne Conway<\/a> for potential discipline reaction. Look at the responses. One person saying how much do taxpayers pay conway to do marketing for ivanka . And another says thank you for standing up to this madness. But not everyone is criticizing. This person says this cracks me up. Suddenly the media is concerned about ethics . Kellyanne conway i will take your advice and buy some of her clothing. And make shopping great again. Well, some people are noticing just how outraged people are on both sides. This person says well, remember back when everyone got upset because president obama put his feet on his own desk . It goes to show you how these things are going to continue to come up. Back to you. Jonathan okay. You were probably told nve hello. When you had crayons and you were 2. Someone drew on the wall in wisconsin and the hotel owner wants to meet the artist. Michelle they found the mural hidden behind a picture in the room during renovations and its now being preserved. We are hearing that it is a thing that artists do do this. Take down artwork in hotels and paint behind it or mirrors or head boards and things like that. Maybe someone will come forward and know someone and we can find out. It would be cool to find out who stayed here and who did it. Jonathan hmm. Michelle well, who knew it was a thing . I didnt know artists did that. The hotel doesnt know if it will ever find the mystery artist, but in the meantime it will simply come one a way to display the piece and share the story. Jonathan you know how you find the artist . Put ultimate on i by you put it on ebay. Worried. Steve its definitely a look. Michelle i like it. Jonathan eye of the beholder. A second ago we showed what was happening a it the white house. Obviously the picture. But it is snowing out there. Steve there are snowshowers out there. It may limit the visibility briefly as may hoove on through. Yesterday we talk about the record warmth. It was 73 at the airport. Now its 32. Its 27 in winchester. Look at the 24hour temperature change. Wow 40 degrees colder compared to yesterday at this time. We have snowshowers out there. Its generally moving south and east around the capital beltway. Head in closer. The rush hour commute is underway. We could see delays the further south you go. Dale city to trianglal and fredericksburg mainly of the snow squalls. Fairfax looking at snowshowers at this time. 18 and 25 for an overnight low. Partly cloudy skies. The day tomorrow shows high of upper 30s to 40 with added clouds. Later in the afternoon, lets talk about the weekend. Upper 50s to around 6 o on saturday. That sounds nice. Middle 60s on sunday. A chance for a few showers, mainly north of d. C. Keep in mind the average high for this time of year 46 degrees. It will be around 50 degrees. Monday, and valentines day around 50. And in the 40s for the remainder of next week. Lets get a check to what is going on what is going on in the roadways. A few snowshowers out there. Trenice bishop . Trenice hey, steve. Absolutely. Snowshowers means lower visibility for the folks on the roads. Typically seeing most of that happening now along the 95 corridor. I tell you, just around a few minutes ago i was looking at the same camera. I could see cars. But now the gone down. Snowshowers with the squalls making their way through the area. This is 95 southbound through triangle. The volume is heavy there as well from triangle to the parkway. So a slow ride to stafford county. Seeing the volume southbound 95 from lorton to occoquan but those are pretty much regular delays. A look at 395. We have activity southbound to get to the 95 corridor. Everything hanging out here before you get to the overpass at king street. Several vehicles are off to the median that you can see. An earlier accident career. No reports of issues along the 395 corridor. Expect volume through arlington. Jonathan . Jonathan thanks. Coming up next at abc7 news at 4 00 if you are thinking of look at that. Take that in for a second. How about a cruise . The risk of traveling without trip insurance explained to you. That is coming up next. John queen jones and sheila had visions of sunny beaches when they booked a cruise on the carnival magic last fall. Unfortunately a hurricane had other plans. Hurricane matthew came through and it prevented us to flight down. John with the flight canceled the women called about a refund but they were stunned when the agent told them wed have to file an Insurance Claim<\/a> to get our money back. John but they couldnt because they had not purchased insurance. Figuring if there was a hurricane they would have no problem to get a refund. Never was it explained to me to get insurance for weather. It was if you got sick prior to cruise you could file a claim to get money back or something happened during the cruise. John even if there is a big storm or your flight is canceled you are still not entitled to a refund from the cruise line if that ship sails. That is why it is so important to purchase trip insurance from a site like tripinsurance. Com or the cruise line or travel agent. Cruise insurance policies as low as 40 on travel insurance. Com. Much lower than carnivals price. As for queen and sheila we contacted carnival will offer them a future credit but they are still hoping for a refund because they had no way to get to the ship. To hold my money i think its unfair. John you will find other parties offering travel insurance for low prices, a. A. A. , insure my trip. Com or square mouth. Its well worth so you dont waste your money. Im john matarese, abc7 news. Larry tonight, a beating in a d. C. Neighborhood investigated as a hate crime. Not doing very well right now. Larry he says his attackers invoked the president s name. Snow doesnt have to fall here to cause problems. Blizzard like conditions hundreds of miles away trigger a ripple effect. And wait, theres more. For 17 you, too, can pick up the cause for ollie the bobcat and another worthy cause. Alison we begin with breaking news right now out of arlington. This is where nearly 80 kids from this school here were sent home. Its Oakridge Elementary School<\/a>. Tim barber is there live to explain what happened. Tim . Tim [no audio] tim a lot of parents didnt know about this until we talked to them about it. They came out here to pick up their kids here at Oakridge Elementary School<\/a>. So far about 80 kids have been sent home sick. Health officials are trying to figure out if its the norovirus or not because its similar to the flu. Anyone can get it from contaminated surfaces, food and water. Some parents are worried. Some say its a good reminder for everyone to wash their hands. Pretty scary. I didnt know if i wanted to send my son to school but figured if he was already exposed if he wa i sent hip sent him anyways. Tim i talked to two girls who had the bug earlier in week. They explained what it was like in there this week. We are putting that story together right now and well have it up at 11 00 tonight. Reporting life in arlington, tim barber, abc7 news. Alison tim, thank you for that. You can sign up for breaking news text alerts anytime at our website wjla. Com. Larry . Larry well, alison, a man just walking his dog brutally beaten by men he says yelled, this is what a Trump America<\/a> looks like. It happened last week near logan circle. And Stephen Tschida<\/a> is there live tracking the developing story. Stephen larry, this happened here on vermont avenue about 7 00 last wednesday night. The man says he was walking his dog down vermont avenue, an elderly dog and so we assume he was going slowly. 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