Student. He was slated to get the ph. D. This december. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Alison thank you very much. 55 years in prison is the man Prince Georges County faces now for killing a 3yearold girl. A jury convicted Davon Wallace of seconddegree murder late last night. Prosecutors say in 2014, wallace fired several shots at a home in landover after an argument killing knijah bibb. Wallace wi february. Larry 7 on storm watch as the first major snowstorm of the season making its way through the midwest. Look at the pictures. They just get you chilly looking at it. Half a foot of snow fell in nebraska. Another three to five inches. Now they will bring it in the single digits. Meteorologist steve rudin joining us from the Weather Center with a look at the storm that could come to our or feel anything like that. Steve no. Nothing like that at all. We are talking about a cold front that will arrive in the afternoon to the early everything hours. You are going to feel it and hear it. Above average temperatures overnight. We talk about the weekend outlook for you. Going from 67 to 68 tomorrow afternoon. The cold front will move through. Passing showers. Behind that the wind will gust upward of 40 miles per hour. Wind chill factors will make alison he was held at gunpoint after trying to sell a pair of shoes. Tonight the Staff Sargent looking to make money off air jordans spoke to q mccray about being robbed and this is an interview you will only see on 7. He pulls out a gun. Next thing i see is a barrel. Brothers edwin and eric are reliving the neardeath as soon as he put it to my face he shot. All over a pair of newly released air jordan 12s in royal blue. They were reselling them in southeast d. C. We are still new here. He are unaware of what is the dangerous area. The suspect fired three rounds and missed. Edwin is a third degree black shot. We didnt realize it. The brothers are in the service. The shoes cost them 190. But the sale could have cost them their lives. The sneaker heads have been reselling shoes for years now. Its for my passion. Music. I love piano. Theyre expensive. For the suspects Police Believe it may have been a gang initiation. Did he shoot first . Yeah. He didnt give a chance to stick up or empty our he was trying to kill us. Q there is a 10,000 reward for anyone information leading to an arrest. The pair of shoes stolen were different sizes. There is a ten and a nine. In lorton, im q mccray. Alison keep track of crime in your neighborhood with the spot crime maps at wjla. Com. Jonathan a developing story from oklahoma where the residents are suing more than two dozen Energy Companies over manmade earthquakes. That the company triggered the quakes injecting the wastewater from oil and Gas Production under ground. Its a process known as fracking. In recent years oklahoma has had hundreds of earthquakes nearly all of which traced to underground wastewater disposal. Just hours ago the Obama Administration now blocking new oil and the gas drilling in the arctic ocean. The new fiveyear offshore Drilling Plan blocks right in the areas north of the inlet. These are vital positions. It will tell us the direction former military intelligence chief Michael Flynn position of the National Security adviser. A fierce critic of president obamas military and the foreign policy. He has been on them campaign trail many times. Representtive mike pompeo of kansas is the choice for c. I. A. Director. Often a key challenger to hillary clinton. Trump plans to meet with his pick for the defense secretary this then the secretary of state job. G. O. P. President ial candidate mitt romney who has had harsh words about trump meeting with trump this weekend. South carolina governor nikki haley. A number of the key appoint its are very much in the air. We have a great number of men and women and the qualifications coming forward. Serve the new administration. He plans to appoint jeff sessions. And Rudy Giuliani is still possibly in the mix as secretary of state. Coming up at 6 00, a d. C. Government connection a name you will recognize visiting with trump this weekend. From the news desk, richard reeve, abc7 news. Larry we have heard statistics about a spike in hate crimes. As k police chief has had enough. Each one of the cases represents a victim and community hit hard. Montgomery county top cop taking to the internet to condemn a recent rash of hate crimes as the schools, churches and a sports bar. We know that many of the cowardly acts are committed under the cover of darkness when no one is watching. Compared to last year, Montgomery County hate crimes anne arundel is up 16 . D. C. , 13 . Arlington, alexandria, fairfax, Prince Georges County didnt have the data readily available. Many blame the contentious president ial election for the spike in hate with recent figures showing 49 of the Montgomery County hate crime aged at ones religion. 44 at ones race or ethnicity. 5 toward imam leads the afternoon prayer every week in downtown silver spring. He and his muslim congregants feel targeted. The f. B. I. Report hate crime nationwide against Muslim Americans rose 67 last year alone. Call upon the authorities. Hate is unsellable. The acts are crime against all of us. Kevin im kevin lewis, abc7 news. Alison president obama says 6yearold boy can set an example for all of us to being more tolerant. Alex wrote a letter to the white house offering to take in a syrian refugee and his family. Today the white house posted a video of alex meeting with the president to talk about it. Its so nice to meet y good. You look very nice in your suit . Is there thank you. Is that a new suit . Hmmmm. I thought so. Remember the boy in syria . Can you please go get him and bring him to our home . Those are words of a 6yearold boy. I liked your letter so much i ended up reading it to everybody. Everybody heard what you said. Hopefully it makes other people think the same way. I was very proud of you. Thank you. Youre welcome. Alison the video of the little boy in syria touched so many people. You see how it touched a small child as well who could tote the video. Jonathan kid has a great heart. Alison still ahead for us at abc7 news at 5 00 we take you to Interfaith Service designed to bring us all together after the election. Death a legal win for 134yearold girl hoping for another chance at life. Alison the good morning Washington Team hard at work for monday. Monday on good morning washington its secure i. D. Day. Security chip on your credit card is supposed to protect you from hackers. But 7 on your side investigators how safef from Identity Theft the chip card is. At 6 00 a. M. , good morning good morning happy holiday hour. Turkey bucks in time for thanksgiving. Plus stay with us for traffic and weather every ten Winter Wonderland in california. Or is it . This is what it look like this afternoon after a malfunctioning fire alarm at if san jose airport. That sent this. This is a flood of foam out of the new hangar. This guy trayed to bite through the foam guy tried to bite through the foam. I was tall. I came up to a stop sign. We dont know what happened here but we will let you know as soon as it comes in the newsroom. Jonathan nobody is having a bad day. Speaking of signs. Signs of the actua the country. Check this out. Disney world unveiled a drone Holiday Light show at the Disney Springs complex last night. More than 300 drones hovering over a lake. Then they shift to a different Holiday Themed shape. How cool is that . Those are all drones. Alison very cool. Jonathan that show debuts as the house of mouse celebrates another milestone. This is mickey mouses birthday. He doesnt look a day over eight. An matted short called steam boat willie. And they were celebrating all things mickey on good morning washington. Alison fun party there. I dont hear him talking but he does stalk. Alison he does. Jonathan yeah. Alison sometimes. High voice. Ice opens its doors at National Harbor tomorrow. The annual spectacle features 2 Million Pounds of the handcarved ice sulture ice the theme is christmas around the world. Ice is open most days through the first of january. Jonathan cool. Alison another sign that holidays are almost here the National Gallery of art opened up the beautiful ice rink in the Sculpture Garden today. Funny. When its 70 degrees. Hopefully it doesnt melt. Wenter is like this year . Let us know at wjla. Com votenow. While we are on the subject check in with the experts. Doug hill is at Tysons Corner to help with a tree lighting. We have an hour to go before they light the tree but it will be fun. Teaming up with iheart radio. Warm this year compared to last. But the question is what is winter going to bli begins but every november we look ahead with the weather team. Let me present the Winter Weather outlook. Every year around this time you are bombarded with the Winter Weather outlook, government forecasts, private meteorologists and armchair enthusists with the forecasts. Will there be more snow than last year . Colder, drier, winter . I have no idea how much snow will fall. We make it in november but its guesswork. We are in a la nina pattern and the water temperatures are cooler than hour. History says this offers no strong signal of what the Winter Weather will be like. There are other scientific factors to consider. Listen to this list. The arctic observation, the pacific, the Madden Julian the aleutian low, and the gulf of the alaska. What will happen this year . Stormwatch7 believes this winter will feature average to slightly above averages temperature and slightly below average snowfall. This is a prediction map. The heaviest snow like in most winters we expect to be in the mountains two feat or more. Western zones 12 to 24 inches. Less than six inches in Southern Maryland and the eastern shore. Maybe you can forecast better yourself . Well invite you to forecast the Winter Weather with it. Just use Computer Program or old school with the pen and the paper or color it in but give us your prediction for snowfall and send it to at burst. Com wjla. We will collect them in the early winter season. When the wenter is over we you in and make you famous to give you stuff from the weather team. A lot of fun. Steve enjoy the milder temperatures. Its 40s to 40s downtown d. C. Tomorrow is looking good, the first half of the day. The cold front will roar on through. Let me tell you, you will feel it and hear it. Dry in the morning. Here is the cold front advancing from the west around 4 00 in the afternoon. To the west of d. C. The skies will darken. The winds change direction on the north northwest behind the front. That is going to usher in the coldest air of the season with the wind chill factors by tomorrow night. 20s to the lower it will feel like the middle to the upper 60s tomorrow afternoon. The front moves through, 7 00. A cold start to sunday. Forecast wind gusts of 25 to 35 and 40 miles per hour. Moving through the day tomorrow. The air is so cold we could look at the accumulating snow across garrett and allegany windy and cold for redskins game. Thanksgiving day will be dry with temperatures in the middle 50s. Shock to system on sunday. Let me tell you. Were spoiled. Its the time of the year that temperatures drop off at night. Alison coming up, we tell you why the people here spent the that others dont have to. Horace perhaps you need a plumber or electrician. 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C. Oldest mosque, christians, jews, sikhs and buddha came to talk. If there is a registry for muslims i will be the first to say am muslim. Sam the members of the positionk note it was built 80 years ago for africanamericans and has chairs for seating among most others. The a number of the mosque are military. After serve 30 years on active duty. A member, muslim born army vet. 32 years. I paid for it. One. Im not asking the right to stay here. I earned the right. Speaker after speaker called for rally around the Muslim Community citing recent increase in attacks. Infuriated was a trump supporter on cable news cited japanese internment camp for precedent. To say the Supreme Court upheld internment of japanese does not make it right or moral. [applause] th out of me. In northwest washington, im sam ford, abc7 news. Alison take a look at this. 150 Business Executives spent last night outside sleeping on the ground. This is part of the Covenant House sleep out event which asks people to spend one night the way a homeless child to fundraise 5,000 for the cause. Homelessness has declined but there is still work to do. In virginia it declined 10. 5 . 20150 to 2016. Homelessness in maryland declined 8 . District has a big mucher problem. Since 2015, the number of the Homeless People jump that is almost an 8 bump. Jonathan securing the border is a leading topic for president elect donald trump but all the problems may not come from the other side. An army of americans are task with securing the 2,000 miles between the u. S. And mexico. 60,000 employees work for the customs and the Border Protection to make it the largest federal Law Enforcement organization in all that security look like an opportunity. This week on full measure with sharyl attkisson, investigation in agents seduced by the dark side of corruption. Alison a first of its kind case in england and maybe in the world. It has been approved by a high court judge. A 14yearold girl with terminal cancer wanted to be cryopreserved when she died. The teenager did not want to be buried but frozen. This in brought back to life in the future when there is a cure for cancer. The girl died last month. Cryogenics preservation is unproven technique but her family is paying 46,000 for the preservation. Family, friends and colleague of the trail blazing journalist gwen ifill will fill the a. M. E. Church. They are gathering to remember the managing eder to hour. There is a celebration of life tomorrow at the same location at is 1 00 a. M. Jonathan former fox news anchor Gretchen Carlson is opening up about her experiences with sexual haxment. One sexual harassment. We explain how she tak