Time we expect. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Alison thank goodness no one was hurt. Thank you so much. We are covering metro for you tonight. And a big milestone for underground cell service. Today metro announced it launched wireness service on the blue, silver and the orange line between potomac avenue and the stadium armory station. This happened wednesday. So this only adds up to a pile of track but the up to a mile of first section with any service at all. At t, tmobile, sprint, verizon are all part of the initiative that has taken years to put in place. The redline between glen mont and Silver Spring is the next section scheduled to get the service. That should be in april. Larry another piece of puzzlele in the trump transition. President elect naming ben carson as his choice to lead department of housing and urban development. Hesitancy when he was talked about for the health and Human Services department. But no pick for secretary of state yet. Steady stream of the nominee and the Transition Team members are coming and going at trump tower. Tomorrow a local politician is set to walk through the lobby. Abc7s sam ford tells us why mayor bowser requested a meeting with the president elect. Sam hours after the upset win for the white house, muriel bose audience at the Wilson Building saying the d. C. Residents were anxious, angry and hurting. The Mayors Office requested and received a message with trump. In a statement, tomorrow i will speak with the president elect on how we can Work Together to continue washington, d. C. s growth, saying d. C. Statehood, infrastructure and Public Safety are among the topics she would like to discuss. Told the news, some d. C. Residents faces registered what looked like surprise. Percept of percept percent of the vote. I cant imagine he cares about anything in the district would say including the mayor. Sam bowser called some of trumps statement idiotic. She skipped the opening of the hotel last month. Saying it was a campaign vent. At her news conference. I dont but i do hope and i said this previously and i do we have to take him at his word. He said he wants to bring nonsupporters in. Sam bowser says his call to fix infrastructure could benefit d. C. The meeting is scheduled for 11 00 tomorrow in new york. Reporting from northwest washington, im sam ford, abc7 interesting conversation. And to be continued. Im just going to leave it at that. Larry that is former Vice President al gore talking today as he departmented trump tower. Initial reports he met with the president elect daughter ivanka. As he left he said he spent most of time speaking with donald trump instead. Alison after more than five months of protests, and look at that, blizzard conditions in the last week. Tonight protesters are celebrating a big victory in access pipeline. Q mccray is in the newsroom now and he is monitoring the developing story. Q, this decision came hours before the deadline, right, for the protesters to have to leave . Q that is exactly right, alison. Time was of the essence in this case. This is a map from the builders website showing the pipeline going through north dakota. Its 95 complete. That last 5 is right here in this area called trenton. This is where the pipeline is Missouri River and to the other side. Yesterdays decision tells the builder it has to find another route. That started the celebration. The good news came sunday from the army corps of engineers. So did the cheers. Construction of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline stopped. I guess we made it. [applause] q for months, the sioux nation asked that the 3. 7 billion project be sc support grew. As did the makeshift city. Even celebrities slept in the cold to show solidarity. We have never known a time when nonnative American Allies from around the country, around the world have come here in the dead of winter to stand with us. Q they are convinced the pipeline carrying crude oil under the Missouri River would too much of a risk for the sacred sites all along the route in area. Too much of a risk to us as a planet. Q Energy Partners responded saying its a political move by the Obama Administration that wont stop the pipeline from going under the river. Adding the latest decision changes nothing. With that, the celebrations could be shortlived. Here is why it will be shortlived. The building, the builders are under the impression that Trumps Administration takes over, that yesterdays decision will be overturned, which mean the people that live in this camp are not going anywhere soon. We also found out that in the past, trump has invested with this builder. It is unclear if he still owns the shares. Back to you. Larry thank you. Tomorrow the citys Police Department is only going to let vehicles with even numbered license plates on the up around the city to try and stop any odd numbers that try to get through. Public transportation will be free all day. The goal is to cut ein addition half and therefore cut down on pollution. Alison a new study in todays journal nature Climate Change wants to know if you are ready for rain, and a lot of it one day . The authors say extreme downpours like the ones that caused flooding in louisiana, houston, West Virginia and locally in Ellicott City this year will become by the end of the century. Warmer air holds more moisture that could translate to more frequent downpours by the end of the century. And here and in the near future we have a chance for rain in the area tomorrow. Larry doug hill has the forecast. Doug chance of rain tomorrow is 100 . It is heavy at times but it will be rain. Early in northerning when it starts north of west of brief period of sleet will fall with the rain. The surface temperatures are warm enough i dont think it will have any impact. The metro area has rain and rain rained. Rain and rain. It will end tomorrow night. The clouds will increase. 45 by 9 00. On radar and satellite the rain is moving in our direction. The question is the timing. We think the temperatures will range from the 30s to 40 but the computer models suggest the leading edges of the rain will move in at the tail end of rush hour or slightly thereafter. Quite a bit of rain is expected. Up to an inch before it pulls out of here later tomorrow night. We will look ahead to the cold jolt coming toward the end of the week and the next ten days in about nine minutes. Larry . Larry well talk to you then. New developments after a deadly fire at a california warehouse last friday. Today crews started searching stop because an hour and a half ago after stopped because the building wasnt stable. Well have a live report with the latest on the investigation 5 30. Alison the man accused of hitting a mother and baby in leesburg killing the 5 monthold trial heads to trial next october. Witnesses reported seeing miller on his cell phone before the crash. The jury trial is expected to larry the man accused of visually killing a store clerk in Spotsylvania County was arraigned in court today. The gas station is still closed. We are hearing from the clerks family. His wife spoke to the colleague ryan hughes. He was an honor man. His wife struggling to understand why someone would viciously attack her husband and leave him for dead on the station. I dont know what to do with myself. I dont know. Sometimes i just cry. I dont know. I dont know. I cant explain it. A memorial is growing outside the gas station in Spotsylvania County. Customers like dottie fox dropping off flowers today. The clerk was killed saturday morning after being attacked with a 2 x 2 piece of wood. Stunned me. Why would someone do that to him . He was a great person. 50yearold david washington is charged with firstdegree murder. He was arrested over the weekend after tips came pouring in when the Police Released this surveillance photo. Police say the cameras show washington beating the clerk to death. The motive was robbery. I hope he gets the electric chair. I dont feel sorry for nobody like that. I hope gets the death penalty. Geraldine angry after she for no reason. Just thank god i have Good Neighbor and support. People calling me on the phone. He leaves behind three grown sons. The couple was set to celebrate its 12th wedding anniversary next week. Now geraldine is forced to plan a funeral. Ryan news, abc7 news. Larry well, you can track crime in your neighborhood using a spot crime map. You can find them at wjla. Com. Alison still to come here at no one called 911 but it didnt take long for emergency crews to show up at this fire. Find out how they found out. Back at home, Progress Report on bei bei after the panda house reopened. You may have seen the outside of the new m. G. M. National harbor. Coming up, for the first time, we will take you inside. Alison as we head to break, maybe grab yourself a glass of look what larry brought us. Larry thin mint for you. . . . . Larry back now with something to celebrate. 83 years ago on this date in history the 21st amendment was enacted to repeal prohibition on december 5,1933. Congratulations. The liquor is sure to be flowing when the new casino opens. Alison it will be soon. Look at the picture that brad tweeted from the lobby. Way down here are the people. Next to the structures. Larry huge alison incredible, ri larry he joins us outside the building to share more of what he saw inside. Hey, brad. Brad an amazing interior space. There is so much about the building that is extraordinary. This is a view that a lot of people have gotten. You see the decks that look like they are a cruise ship. That is the parking garage. Up there on top, the huge area is a patio looking out on the potomac, alexandria and it is eye catching from the moment you walk in any of the entrances. Its big, glitzy and the general manager say it may be the crown jewel of the m. G. M. Empire. Every space i go in i say wow we walk around in amazement. Brad ben you enter the hotel, the first thing you see is this. They call it conservatory. Its decorated for the holidays. Its huge. To get an idea of scale, look from where they stand, the people can walk into restaurants created by Celebrity Chefs or enter the 3,000seat theater to catch a show. Of course; there is an entrance to the casino. As big as any in vegas and unlike any casinos, this one has views. Up and down the potomac. Were so excited as a company to show everybody what we built. Brad it brings 3,900 new permanent jobs. Executive chef Jason Johnston says they hired local. All of the cooks, the stewards, back of the house people, service staff. Brad the m. G. M. Opens thursday night at 11 00 p. M. Everybody here says theyre ready. An awful lot of work still going on inside the facility and outside as well. One of the concerns is traffic. Tomorrow we look at the command center they have set up to keep everybody flowing smoothly around the massive complex. At National Harbor, brad bell, alison thank you very much. Check out the Photo Gallery from inside the casino. That is at wjla. Com. Stick with us all week. We have reports what you can expect from traffic and security in the area before it opens up on thursday night. We were at National Harbor for the toys for to thes event. Doug the holiday take rations are beautiful. If the weather did not get you in the holiday spirit, you will feel that way. Lets look at the view of the sky. Its 49 degrees right now. Through the day, heavy cloudiness this morning broke up through the midmorning. The sun was out. Beautiful day. Most areas climbing in the we have seasonal numbers. Overnight the temperatures will drop more. By tomorrow morning the southern zone will see the temperatures in the 30s. Manassas is 32 degrees early tomorrow morning. Farther west and the colder part of viewing area, 33 in front royal. 32 in woodstock. Luray at 33 in the morning. 36 in orange. With the temperatures in the 30s, you think could it be snow or ice . Precipitation comes in tomorrow morning. What we see, go back one the show it again it will come in tomorrow morning. This is rain. It will be cloudy and dry. By recess, dismissal time, do homework time and watc highs about 44 degrees. That is it. A cold day. The cloudy skies overspread the area and we have cold air out of the northeast to combine with the approaching moisture. Some of the areas of rain is moderate to heavy at times. 9 30 in the morning. By midday, everybody is in the rain. This doesnt mean that this is the broader system coming through there will be element of the heavier rain. The heaviest is going to shift south and east. By 7 00 tomorrow night the winds coming out of the east. Its a raw day. The skies will clear overnight to wednesday morning. Wednesday looks nicer and the temperatures near 50 degrees. Rainfall, we need it. We are way down in the rainfall totals since the 1st of september. It is going to whittle away a little in the deficit of washington. We are 5. 88 inches below no washington dulles. We are doing better at b. W. I. Thurgood marshall. 100 chance of rain tomorrow. Wednesday, back to 50. 46 for the day on thursday. Friday looks like we will be breezy. The temperatures are going to be just about 38 degrees on friday. With wind chills 32. For a Holiday Bonus gift for you three extra days at no extra charge. You just pave for the shipping and the handling. I want free shipping. Doug you got that. Temperatures in the upper 40s. Its chilly. Larry this years oscar broadcast is getting a late night boost. Alison well explain that. And the big impact this orange scarf is having. Tour of the Community Health center in alexandria. And talks about the challenges facing the Affordable Care act. Im Cheryl Conner with the story coming up. Larry but first a look at what is coming up tonight on abc7. Hello. Im First Sergeant henry french. Stronger is rebuilding a newborns heart. And restoring a fathers faith. Stronger is seeking answers and not giving up until you find them. Because we dont just want kids to grow up. We want them to grow up stronger. With your support, we can find more answers faster. Make a gift today at childrensnational. Org givenow larry 7 on your side with health matters. Today a disappointing report from c. D. C. About fighting the bissest health threat. Today the Agency Issued a frank selfassessment on what it calls winnable battles against obesity, smoking, Food Poisoning and infections spread in hospital. The c. D. C. Says it has made progress cutting cigarette smoking and teen pregnancy rates but the number of toddlers and the older children who are obese in the u. S. Alison tonight the clock is ticking on the Affordable Care act, of course. Thats because president elect donald trump says repealing the plan is one of his Top Priorities since he takes office. Cheryl conner takes a look at some of the upcoming challenges for the health plan. Cheryl off the campaign trail now, virginia senator tim kaine is spending time at Neighborhood Health in alexandria, learning about the clinic that treats those no one can figure it out. Cheryl he listened to stories from patience and employees. They are happy that they have access to healthcare. Cheryl the access is what allows saed to show up for the first time. He works parttime and has no health insurance. Make some money and then go to the doctors. Cheryl senator kaine is pushing to keep the Affordable Care act, what is also known as obamacare available for 20 Million People who have the cheryl president elect donald trump said he will work with republicans in congress to amend the program or replace it. Senator kaine admits obamacare needs some work. Prices of prescription drugs, there is work to do on that. Some of the premium increases, there is work to do on that. Cheryl 60 of the patients treated here at Neighborhood Health are uninsured. Dr. Khan says without the Affordable Care act patients may not be able to see a specialist. A cardiologist. Medicine might be more expensive for them. Cheryl these are stories that senator kaine will share with the colleagues. We should work on fixing and improving rather than destroy with no replacement in sight. Cheryl Cheryl Conner, abc7 news. Larry tomorrow the d. C. Council will hold the first vote on paid family leave. If it passes it would be the most generous benefit of its kind in the country to get up to 11 weeks of paid leave for alison coming up at 5 00 well, find out why the panda wont be taking the little girl up on the offer of an animal cracker at the national zoo. Larry a bit later, its not every day you see a massive gun on the side of the road. Why this one tied up traffic on i95 for hours this morning. Alison but first, todays setback in the investigation in the deadly fire at a party so, mr. Harris, we have your fingerprints on the safe. So, what are we supposed to think . Switching to geico could save you a bunch of money on Car Insurance. Excellent point. Case dismissed. Geico. Because saving fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance woo because saving fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance larry crews say they searched 70 of what is left of an oakland warehouse after a neir late friday night. These are a few of the 36 people who died and the recovery crews say they expect we are live from oakland with new i