After we get hit with the cold front we may have wet weather coming our way. The temperature is dropping so they are filling tires. Air up the tracks. When you drive. Ther this noter the sinks to the lows that you longing for warmth keep an eye on your car. The traffic flow freely today but the freezing cold coming at us can cause a lot of problems. Which can lead to breakdowns and have you stranded some of the worst weather. If you want to make sure that you have enough antifreeze and that your battery is charged. Hardware stores. They have seen a spike in antifreeze sales. A week ago. Come get it. As are the space heaters to keep the cold out. Flying off the shelves. Across the metro they are treating roads to try to keep them from icing over with the wet weather approaching this week. Once it gets too cold its too late to treat. You cant put anything down after 25 degrees. Meanwhile, a sense of dread down on us is setting in across the metro. Its going to bundle up and turn my heat up. Aside from preparing the car, get an emergency kit for yourself with jumper cables, flares and the owe items in case your car breaks down in the midst of the cold weather. We checked with metro. Representative says metro is monitoring whether conditions and if there are any problems they have staff at the ready to respond. That is the latest. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Alison thank you. Coming up today at 5 30, school buss can have their own problems of course starting in the cold weather. We will take a look at what some School Systems are doing ahead of the frigid morning in half an hour. Make sure you stay one step ahead of whatever Mother Nature throws our way all wenter with the storm watch 7 winter with the storm watch 7 app. Larry new information about a 13yearold of baltimore was killed after the van he was in with his mother was hit by a tractor trailer. The boys mother is in critical condition. Two other vehicles were also involved in that crash. Alison turning to the trump transition. The president elect met several Silicon Valley leaders to talk tech. Apple c. E. O. Tick tim cook, microsofts satya nadella. Some of the topics were innovation, Digital Privacy and hiring. Crews are hard at work to get the inauguration stage ready on the west lawn of the capitol. The festivities and the protests could stretch along the national mall. If you factor in the parade along pennsylvania avenue a lot of people could be downtown. Suzanne kennedy was at the military talked about the preparations. Im on a giant 40 x 60foot map. This is used to get ready for the inauguration that is 27 days away. This is fantastic. You can see they have a u. S. Capitol where the president elect will be sworn in. Then the knows who with using this can look at the parade route. There is a popup feature. The president elect hotel located at the corner of 12th street northwest and pennsylvania avenue. You can follow the parade route to the white house. They even have the reviewing stand set up so they can get a sense of where it will be. In relation to the white house and the other features throughout the downtown area. All of this is being used in an effort to prepare for the inauguration that takes a lot of forethought and planning. This s recognize the military in support of the civilian leaders. That is why there is a president ial committee, a pick and the other committees at the civilian level to help organize it. The military is here to support the civilian. The local state and federal. The map is so detailed it has several mon tenteds laid out. It mon tenteds laid out on it. This is all part of the preparation. The military and the civilians coming together to make sure that the 58th inauguration goes off without a hitch. At the d. C. National guard armory, suzanne kennedy, back to you. Larry coming up at 5 30, local member of the clergy ban together what they call the president elect cabinet of bigotry. Find out what they are trying to do about it. Alison the Federal Reserve raised Interest Rate by a quarter percentage point. This is the first hike of the year and only the second since the great recession. Policy makers perceive three more increases next year up months ago. The dow fell 118 points to close at 19,792. The nasdaq and the s p 500 also finished the day down. Larry marylands governor is trying to give projects in the area a big boost. But as Maryland Bureau chief brad bell reports Governor Hogan says it will take repeal of the socalled road kill bill to do it. Good morning, everybody. Brad larry hogan says every one of the transportation projects on the easels would be wiped out by a bill he vetoed and the legislature revived. He calls it the road kill bill. The repercussions are dive us for the safe. Brad he says the 11 improvements include i270 watkins mill road interchange and work to increase capacity of the beltway from the i270 spur. In prince geo could die, including interchanges on indian head highway, route four suitland interchange. These are the most desperately needed transportation projects in the state. The bill was pushed last spring by a group of environmental activists. The intent was to create a scoring system that would prioritize projects based on need. The governor says it was a partisan attack on his authority. And pushes transit at the expense of roads far more people use. He is absolutely right. State senator, democrat from st. Germs said most didnt understand the real world impact and it should be repealed. Worry about route 4 and 5. Its gridlock already. Im not telling my constituents for partisanship i decided to throw you under the bus. Brad that is route 5. The major improve in the the waldorf area. Late this afternoon i heard from a primary proponent, one of the activists responsible for what the governor called the road kill bill. He says the governor has it all wrong. He says this bill is advisory only. That the governor can prioritize highways as he sees fit. The governor obviously disagrees with the setting up to be one of the big early fights of the upcoming maryland legislative session. Brad bell, abc7 news. Alison thank you. Well, today marks four years since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in connecticut. Northern Virginia Bureau chief Jeff Goldberg reports dozens of people held a vigil outside the n. R. A. Headquarters in fairfax to call for an ind to gun violence. Jeff the names of those killed stay with these men and women every day in a fight for stronger gun laws. An effort that is even tougher after the election of donald trump. We will not be discouraged. 20 children. If that doesnt do something what will . For the Third Straight year marking the anniversary of the shooting in 2012, dozen of people gather in front of the headquarters of the n. R. A. In fairfax, calling for change. Thorough background checks. Calling out n. R. A. All they want to do is sell guns. They have always used lies to prop up their false agendas. Andy an barbara park rer the parents of alison park wore was shot and killed last year reporting on live tv. That is what motivates us. We have to do it for alison. We ask the n. R. A. For a comment about the protest multiple times but we never got a response. We did speak with al, a gun owner who saw the protest. I think theya and has a different view. Guns dont kill people. People kill people. The gun has nothing to do with it. Protesters say trumps expressed support for gun owners is a source of major concern. Got to fight harder than we ever have. Motivation. In fairfax, Jeff Goldberg they are in for a fight. Abc7 news. Larry coming up at abc7 news at 5 00 a dramatic demonstration of how quickly the Christmas Tree can go up in flames if you are not careful. First, getting help for the holidays to them who lost everything people who lost everything in the Silver Spring apartment explosion. Hey, im based in germany. Merry christmas to my family back home in virginia. I love you and i miss larry those impacted by the silver chance to shop. Today the nonprofit interfaith works welcomed her and the other mothers of the deadly fire to a donation shop. Shirts, shoes, winter coats, and the toys. All quality, all available. All free. Ill be glad. It is hard to miss the look of relief on her face. Last week immigration officers deported her husband. The sole bread earner to honduras after he was caught driving drunk. Montoya contend her three boys and the 4monthold daughter would likely have gone without presents this christmas if not for what is placed at the foot of the tree. Close to 4 who come to the door every year. Monica young made this event happen. Effectively a santa of her own right. This time of year we all get emotional. I could not imagine christmas without the toys. It is so important that we are here for the people. In rockville, im kevin lewis, abc7 news. A new york boy battling brain cancer is credited to saving christmas. 9yearold colin was sworn in as Honorary Ithaca Police officer last september. He made his first arrest. The suspect was the grinch. Thats right. The officer colin got a few pointers before taking the suspect into custody. Now he is planning to take it easy. Good for him. Save christmas. Alison you know it. Lets talk about the weather. This is going to be the coldest weather of the year. Of the season. Doug no do but it really is this time. Doug this is the real thing here. This will be a twoday arctic outbreak. Quick. The worst of the two days, more uncomfortable of the days is tomorrow. The winds will diminish on friday. Lets get to it and tell you the story. Not bad. Typical december early evening. 44 with a high overcast. The winds are calm. I wish they would stay that way. They are not going to. They will increase tonight. Cold front will get closer to the area. These are the current wind chills. The east coast in good shape. Its 44 in washington. 47 in richmond. 35 in philly. The farther west you go the colder it gets. 9 degree wind chill in columbus. 1 degree in detroit. 2 below is the wind chill in chicago at this hour. What is copping tonight, its on what is coming tonight, its on track to roll in at 11 00. Preceded by the leading edge of the flurries and patches of light snow. Maybe further south where its not cold enough quickly. At 11 30 it is clearing already along the blue ridge. A quick burst of the snow flurries. Adumlation potential maybe a accumulation potential maybe a couple quarter inches. But the temperatures are going to be steadily dropping as well. The snowfall forecast, future cast suggests the possibility again not a probability but a possibility of an inch, onetenth to twotenth of an inch of snow. On the earn shore. Higher likelihood on the western slopes of the mountains facing the wind there. They get an inch or two at higher elevations. The forecast as we head through the day tomorrow. Plenty of sunshine. Its blustery. Winds out of the northwest. 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour. Gusting to 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour. At the temperatures this chills will drop. We will get the single digit wind chills. Based on the sustain wind day. Cold and windy tomorrow. Cold and less wind here for the day on friday. 9 00 in the morning. Wind chill. Its four below in hagerstown and nine in annapolis. Through the day the values dont change much. The cold air overhead. The wind chills come up. The same temperatures and the winds are lighter as we gut through friday afternoon and the evening when the winds calm down. Larger look to the future cast. Jump ahead to friday. Another system is coming in and a strong cold front to produce snow on saturday morning. This model keeps it on the morning to the north. A chance for taste of rain or a wentry mix before it changes to rain saturday morning. We watch for the strong cold front to come through to bring not only rain and more gusty winds. The be pushed to 50 on saturday. And 58 on sunday before the next front comes through and the area might see snow flurries as the system moves through. All cold stuff. Even though we have a brief warmup saturday and sunday in the upper 50s. Look ahead a bit beyond to the middle and the end of next week. We see a rise in temperatures. We look as far out as christmas eve. The forecast there and the outlook of the partly cloudy skies. Doug White Christmas this year, i dont think so. Well get the cold air out of the way now. Scoo worry about it first. Thank you. Award season is just about to be upon us. Larry hard to believe its so close. Christmas so so close, too. A look at one of the first batches of the nominees. Plus my name is montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. Larry a l film making the cut this year with the library of congress. Alison but first, a look at what is coming up tonight on abc7 and Veronica Johnson has a look at what to expect tomorrow on good morning washington. Thanks, alison. Tomorrow on good morning washington we are live across the d. M. V. With the storm trach 7 for the winter blast and the impact on your commute. Plus a specialist from International Spy museum is here with an inside look at russia and the current d. N. C. Hacking scandal. Is there stay with us for traffic and weather every ten minutes at 4 24 on good morning washington. Alison breaking news. We have word of a massive cyber attack targeting yahoo accounts. Michelle marsh is in the live desk. What are you hearing about this . Michelle more than a billion User Accounts may be compromised from a hack that took place in 2014. This is separate, this is a separate hack than the one yahoo announced in september. In that one more than 500 million User Accounts compromised. But it would make sense that this would be the biggest breach of all time. Yahoo is encouraging the users to review all the online accounts for suspic activity and change passwords and the security questions. Some of the security questions and the birth dates have been compromised with this hack. Back to you. Manchester by sea. Casey affleck. Manchester by sea. Michelle williams, manchester by sea. Lucas hedges, manchester by sea. Larry the drama manchester by sea leads this years nominations as you can see for actor guild award. You can see them on the website wjla. Com. Alison matt damon talks about it. Really good. Larry today classic films earn the spot in the library of congress. You have exactly eight hours and 54 minutes to ponder the errors of your ways. Any questions . I dont think it means alison dont they take you back . Breakfast club too. Love it. Jonathan elias has a look at the movies on the National Film registry. And the additions there. Jonathan the concept is a hundred years from now when people are in the library to look at the movies it will be a snapshot of what they thought our culture was about at the time period. Some of the names of the movies now you think these are classic movies. You read off the list. Breakfast Club Princess bride. And the birds. That is hitchcocks seventh film in the library of congress. Prolific director. Others are lion king thelma and luis funny girl. The decline of western civilian. Paris is burning. 20,000 leagues under to be sea. Great movie there. A walk in th the list. These are the movies are considered classics. So the question for the two of you. Any to go in the library . Alison not on the list . Jonathan correct. Alison good question. I recognize almost one of those movies that you listed. That is rare everybody collectively knows big movies. Jonathan the sting. Bump field of dreams. Godfather. Great titles. Alison a good list. Larry gladiator. A beautiful mind. Jon its a matter of time. Alison thank you. The movie Hidden Figures earned three s. A. G. Award nominations this morning. Still ahead we will take you to the premier d. C. Mike im mike carterconneen on capitol hill where today a couple dozen faith leaders to Congress Petition demanding they reject figures selected by president elect donald trump for the cabinet. Coming up, the plan to protect wait, does this mean youre going to have to get a jobnow. Where you like, tuck in your shirt . And carpool to work with people who are all like, good morning . And go to meetings where you pitch Brilliant Ideas and win the respect of your peers . And have to try to fix that annoying copy machine . Dude did you check your credit score . Yeah, i signed up for credit karma. See. But i was thinking. If we both work on our credit, we could by our own record shop. So down so down. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. Doug when the cold front arrives tonight, accompanied by the snowshowers and the stronger winds. Wind chills below freezing tonight. Overnight they will drop to the Single Digits and the teens and stay there all day long. It will be just as cold on friday but with the diminishing winds. Wind chills will come up. But still cold. Especially at bus stop. Tomorrow morning 27 degrees. Recess time, too. Dismissal tv. The key is strong winds that are gusting to 35 to 45 Miles Per Hour to put the wind chill in single digit. The kids at the bus stop are not used to that, q mccray. How are they preparing for it . Q its going to be extremely cold so the kids need to bundle up but the buses need to prepare, too. Arlington county has a plan in place and it starts with the start team. Jack frost is expected to pack a punch overnight with the temperatures dropping to the Single Digits. The School System isnt taking any chances. We get a selected team of drivers. We call it the start team that comes around 4 00 in the morning. Turn on the buses. That is an hour earlier than normal. Make sure they are ready to roll by 6 00 a. M. The job is simple. Turn on the bus. Make sure it runs and the systems are operational. Q that is in addition to pretrip Safety Inspection every drive completes every morning. We find it starting in the cold weather, drains the batteries. We will ask the shop to give us a jump. Q the buses run on diesel. When its cold diesel engines need more time than normal to get going. They are using winter brand of fuel b