Make America Great again trump hat. As you can tell he is still physically injured and emotionally shattered. Wednesday, about 7 00 at night as the man walked his dog down the stretch of vermont avenue. Suddenly four men came at him, called him snowflake and said this is what a Trump America looks like. He says they then used a homophobic slur and began pelting him repeatedly with objects. No, im not okay. I just really, i need time to deal with all of this. Stephen we caught up with the victim outside of his home today. He does not want his face nor his injuries which are still very visible shown on camera. He talked about the attack and his road to recovery. Its not easy to think about. I cant remember everything. Stephen meanwhile the attack in an early evening on a wellt troubled tonight. Horror. Great sadness that Something Like this would happen among our friends. Stephen d. C. Police are investigating this as a hate crime because the man apparently was attacked because of his sexuality. We have also learned that they werent content only to injure him. One of them also went after his dog. A senior dog pepper. They say she was punched by one of the suspects. She and the victim here, the other victim, the human victim are recovering tonight. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Larry thank you for that. Find out about crime in your neighborhood with the alert i. D. Maps at wjla. Com. Alison well, we turn to the weather now and 7 is on storm watch. Wow just listen to that. A blizzard slamming into new england and part of new york. Hundreds of schools canceled classes today before the storm hit the full stride. People are warned to stay off the roads but not everyone is listening. What happened here . Were you leaving . We were leaving and we wanted him turned around because we wanted him on the sidewalk. He went to turn around and the hill caught him and down he came. Alison wow as much as a foot and a half of snow could fall in part of the northeast. So even though most of our area really skirted the snow. People trying to travel are still feeling some of the impacts. Our Northern Virginia chief Jeff Goldberg live at Reagan National with this side of the story. How does it look there, jeff . Jeff it has gotten better in the day. A little bit of the delay but mostly on time. Here is where you run into problem. New york airports, laguardia, j. F. K. , newark and boston where the wording gets ugly. Talk to just a few travelers at Reagan National airports my original flight was canceled. Jeff you will find most are finding themselves going nowhere fast. I was supposed to leave last night. Then again earl now 10 00 p. M. Tonight. I jeff he just wants to get home to boston after a business trip in florida. But thanks to the storm he is stuck in d. C. Walking around to find starbucks and catch up on email. Jeff cancellation and delays outnumber ontime flights today at d. C. A. , mostly in and out of new york. The massive storm led to the cancellation of more than 3,500 flights nationwide. Include manage of the south and west as planes were stuck in the northeast. Why get upset . They cant do anything. Its the weather. Planes are not where they are supposed to be. Jeff at Union Station trains and buses leaving on time. Its the arrivals from the northeast that are dealing with delays. Cheryl from bethesda made it to the city with her daughter and sisterinlaw. We got in and it was a great show and got out in the nick of time. Jeff for greyhound riders getting out of manhattan was tough but smooth after that. Is there supposed to be back at supposed to be back at 1 00. So maybe 30 minutes. Jeff not too bad . Nah. Jeff its good to be back. A look at the flight aware misery map in the northeast. Boston looks 100 miserable when it comes to Flight Cancellations and delays. In d. C. Its only 25 miserable. That is not too bad. Out here the weather feels miserable. Its cold and certainly windy. Doug hill, how long is this going to last . Doug it looks like the gusty winds will continue a couple more hours. We have snow squalls around the area. We had wind gust of 40 Miles Per Hour in frederick. 38 Miles Per Hour at leesburg. 33mileperhour gust in annapolis. You combine it with the temperatures holding in the now we have been watching the past couple of hours in the stormwatch7 weather center, the snow squalls coming out of the northwest. They have been heavy. More than a half inch fell at washington, washington dulls with a snowshower moving through. Crossing over 95 and potomac to charles county. So a feel of winter. The Bigger Picture shows there are a few more coming but generally after sunset we think the number and intensity of the snowshowers diminish and skies will clear later tonight. It will be cold. Upper teens to mid20s by morning. The bus stop forecast should be mostly sunny early on. 25 for temperature in the city. Around 7 00. 32 at recess time. Dismissal, 38 with clouds in. And a big warmup this weekend, larry. We will talk about it shortly. Larry well talk to you soon. More progress in the president s first 100 days today with the swearing in of Jeff Sessions as the nations attorney general. He says he will defend the president s travel ban. You said something that i believe and i think the American People believe that we need a l immigration. One that serves the interest of the people of the united states. That is not wrong. That is not immoral. That is not indecent. Larry a federal Appeals Court is expected to rule any day on whether the president s order aimed at extreme vetting for people at seven different nations is constitutional. Today alabama governor named that state current attorney general Luther Strange to replace sessions in the u. S. Senate. Alison President Trump today also met with the chief executives from several major airlines. They discussed Airport Infrastructure and updating the nations air Traffic Control system. Larry the senate is due to vote on the president s pick to Head Department of health and Human Services today but so far they are still debating congressman tom price of georgia nomination. Alison a bill to cut funding for planned parenthood in virginia is gaining support. A Senate Committee voted to send the bill to the full chamber today. I would allow title x funding that goes to abortion providers to be redirected other health clinics. It has already passed the house of delegates. A similar bill was vetoed by governor mcauliffe last year and will likely face the same fate this year. Larry covering metro tonight. After weeks of a break, safetrack returns this weekend. This time its blue line riders who will be feeling the pain with no trains between rosslyn and the pentagon. Our transportation reporter Brianne Carter takes a look at the impact of the safety push so far. Brianne the around the clock commuting disruptions. A reemerging for metro riders. Starting saturday, the tracks will shut down between rosslyn and pentagon station. Its an 18day closure. Brianne also during the surge, the Arlington Cemetery station will be closed. For visitors who still want to head there, free shuttle buses will replace trains. There will be no blue line throughout the system. Yellow plus trains will run all day. Blue line riders in maryland are urged to use the silver line ins prevented by doing this work. But the reality is if we didnt do it wed be in a much worse place. Brianne the latest surge comes as safetrack appears to be causing more people than projected to choose another way to get around town. Because of our declining ridership, we will have fiscal pressure on the 2017 budget, the budget were in now. Brianne today josh whedon indicated the revenue for the end of the year may not meet the 839 million expected through fares and parking. The projections were done over 18 months ago now. Brianne wiedefeld is expected to detail the issues at a Board Meeting in two weeks but with many costsaving measures already underway the question tonight remains. What else will be done to make up the gap . It is tough. It gets tougher and tougher as the pantry gets bare. We will do what we have to do. Brianne in arlington, b alison stay one step ahead of the safetrack with text alerts from abc7. You can sign up at wjla. Com. Larry coming up at 5 00 [coughing] the sounds of february. C. D. C. Says the flu is widespread in d. C. , maryland and virginia now. Find out what else could be making you or your friends sick. The National Zoos bobcat making headlines again. This Time One Group is hoping she will be set free. Im amy aubert. I will tell you what is behind the free ollie campaign next. Alison later, agreeing to disagree. A look at the battle between the president and some of his nominees. Larry but first, one day after this protest in the district, what happens today with the disputed pipeline through part of north dakota . Alison this is a live look now at the beltway. East of the mixing bowl. You know the snow squalls have been coming through the area. Storm watch 7 chief meteorologist doug hill was talking ab fo creating a cleaner environment by using cleaner Energy Sources like solar, wind and natural gas. Weve reduced Carbon Emissions by nearly 25 , which is the equivalent of taking close to two million cars off the road. Cleaner air and cleaner water. Its good for all of us. Dominion. Depend on us for more than energy. Larry we have breaking news. The Associated Press is reporting an Appeals Court on President Trumps travel ban will be filed close of business day in california. So by 8 00 eastern time tonight. Well be following that. Be sure to stay with abc7 news and wjla. Com for updates only that. Alison . Alison all right, larry. New developments today after months of protest about the Dakota Access pipeline. The Company Building the pipeline started work again this morning. This was two days after the army gave permission for the construction to repsalm. Police say they are on heightened alert there in case more protesters show up to try to stop the work. Take a look at this. This is the route for the entire Dakota Access pipeline. Its 172 miles long between north dakota to illinois. But this right here is the portion everybody has been protesting. This is in dispute. It runs under a lake right near the Standing Rock sioux reservation. Critics say its a threat to the tribe water supply. Supporters point out the pipeline crosses hund waterways. Larry . Larry now Dakota Access may be the most wellknown pipeline in the u. S. However, its not the only one. Sow in Company Transcanada wants to build a gas pipeline from the pennsylvania border to morgan downtown, morgan county. It would go west of hancock, maryland. You can see it on the map. It would end at lovers leap. That is the proposed pipeline there. A public hearing is held tonight in hancock. Members of the tohir mack river keeper plan to be there to protest. Alison the rock creek observatory is putting ollie, the bobcat, back in the news. A week after ollie escaped from the national zoo a group wants to see her roam free again. Amy aubert is here to explain this one. Amy . Amy they have a hashtag, a website and the group is now se you can support the cause, too, which the free ollie site says is all about freedom. You will remember ollie, the 25pound bobcat escaped from her enclosure at the national zoo a week and a half ago. She was later found on the zoos property. This group says they were cheering her escape saying on the site they were reminded that we can all still come together for a common cause and they support the agenda of togetherness. One dollar from each of the shirts will be donated to the rock creek conservancy. Amy aubert, abc7 news. Larry okay. Thanks so much. Look outside able look at this. At the wilson bridge. Live look. Its not supposed to be black and white, doug hill. Doug that is the traffic camera. It is. Oh, all right. Doug literally five minutes ago there was blue skies there. This is how fast the now is squalls are coming through. The winds snow squalls are coming through. They are coming in quick. I want to take that t computer where we have the weather bug camera on the property of national harbor. Look at that. Five minutes ago you had total visibility to arlington and Fairfax County now. Barely anything because of the snow squall moving in. We can pinpoint it on doppler radar. The area blue south of the city across the wilson bridge and snow squall is moving southeast at a pretty good clip. A little bit earlier this afternoon we picked up a detection of a couple of lightning strikes with a cell over southern fairfax. More active weather this morning in the backlash of that big blizzard than anything we had locally this morning when it was just gathering strength. That was the deal. The cold air came in slower than we thought. The system moved through more quickly and hasnt intensified. We have very little this morning. Going from bright sunshine to clouds and snow. Then back to sunshine. Generally, though, tonight, in the next few hours the snowshowers will diminish and will wind up having partly cloudy to clear skies. So fast are the gusty winds. Those are not only going to bring in colder air, driving the temperatures even more below freezing than they are now. Its 31 at Reagan National. 27 at winchester. With the clear skies and the winds the falling temperatures it will be one of the coldest nights we have had in a while. Especially true tomorrow morning. Wake up to air temperatures. 21 in hancock. 20 in berkeley springs. Martinsburg is 20. Leesburg is 23. Cold morning with fairly cold skies. Enough of a breeze to make it feel more uncomfortable. 21 in college park. 2 is in reston. 18 in damascus. 23 in clinton. 23 on the Chesapeake Bay in anne arundel county. How about the wind chills . Its not as windy in the morning as now but windy enough to feel like 13 around joint base andrews in the morning. 15 in leesburg. 13 in frederick. Only 9 degrees on the wind chill in hagerstown. A cold start. Well make a r that much. Upper 30 to 40. Plenty of sunshine in the morning but then clouds roll in, in the afternoon. It will remain cold. Unseasonably cold. Now we have a day that unseasonably cold. Average high is 46. We only hit 40. But wait until the weekend. Big changes coming. Look at saturday. Up to 59 degrees. Dramatic change. But yesterday we were 74. Today we have the snow and the high winds. 59 on saturday with sunshine. Clouds roll in later saturday. Sunday is a changeable day. Warm front will try to work through. Not sure how far in the 60s we will get. Took the dart in the dartboard and tossed it and we came at 64. There could be a shower north of the city. One could extend early monday morning but after that clearing it will drop to 51. Valentines day is 51. Then we can relax because next week is quiet, dry and fairly sunny and for this time of february. Alison when you started we showed the live pickture of wilson bridge. Take a look. Doug done. People have low angle sun in their eyes in a minute heading west. Crazy winter. Alison the queen of soul is doing soul searching. Larry we will explain what makes this little boy happy enough to dance like this. That is also coming up. Cheryl im Cheryl Conner at patients first in beltsville where doctors are seeing more cases of the cold and flu. Coming up we will tell you if the flu about flu vaccine is effective and if the upanddown temperatures play a role. Larry but first, your t. G. I. T. Lineup is back tonight alison now Jummy Olabanji has a look at what is coming up on good morning washington. Tomorrow on good morning washington, safetrack surge 12 this weekend. Where you expect total me i sit down with alec baldwin. The size of his paycheck to play donald trump on s. N. L. May surprise you. And stay with us for weather and traffic every ten minutes tomorrow morning at 4 24 a. M. On good morning washington. Larry this is the height of if your office is like ours youre probably seeing this going on. All over the place. Cheryl conner has a look at how to tell if its cold, flu or allergies. Cheryl the flu vaccine is still availability at patients first in beltsville. This year it is making an impact. The flu cases increased this week. Most people did not have the shot but some did have the shot and still had the flu symptoms. Although they were less effected by the flu than those who did not have the shot. Cheryl this man got the flu shot but still had what he thought was the flu or a cold. Runny nose, headache, slept a lot. Cheryl it was just yesterday we were talking around the short sleeves. Now today we are bundled up again in winter coats answer scarves coats and scarf ofs. Doctors say the upanddown temperatures make a difference. If you are not dressed properly you are more like to get sick. Cheryl the forecast calls for temperatures to springtime again this weekend. To avoid getting sick dont get too comfortable without your coat. She has also seen patients complain about allergies. There is a shift in temperature my sinuses act up. Cheryl wash your hands often and avoid touching your face. Its not new advice but worth repeating when people around you are grabbing for tissues. In beltsville, Cheryl Conner, abc7 news. Were going to keep on fighting. Alison still ahead at abc7 news at 5 00 a familys fight after a mother of two is deported as part of the president s shift in policy. As the pre