Do life sentence. Brad the police are investigating to find out two things. First, what happened here . Was the gun visible to the driver of the car. They are looking at Surveillance Video from the businesses to determine that. They are also looking at what happened the night before. In the last ten minutes, i have been able to review an incident report from this alleged exchange between the girl that was in the car with her father and nate mckinnon. The allegation is that mckinnon pointed a rifle similar to the one found here at the girl. Hit her in the face with it and that there was a shot fired. As we said in the story, the caliber of that shot matches the gun that was found here. Much work remains to be done on the investigation. Two families are hurting tonight. Likely this will go before the states attorney to decide what if anything happens. The driverof has been released by police. In upper marlboro, brad bell, abc7 news. Larry thank you. Take a look at the scene in frederick. The cab of a tractor trailer going over a bridge crashing to the row below. What is more amazing than the picture itself the driver survived. Richard reeve is live in frederick to tell us what happened today. Its a bizarre incident. Richard . Richard check this out. This is the slope where the tractor trailer cab slid down like a giant sled. It went across this spot. And out in the road. A miracle no cars were there. Its an unusual crash. Tractor trailer in a dead stop on the overpass. The cab sitting upright 20 feet below. The tractor trailer and the cab came over the bridge. Richard the state police are investigating that the truck driver 31yearold Matthew Black fell asleep b wheel. He was lucky individual. Investigators say around 9 30 a. M. , the northbound rig veered left on the route 15 overpass. The impact sheering off the cab from the chassis. I heard a rath e long drawn out rather long drawn out noise. The cab kept only going. Sliding down the embankment like a giant sled. The driver still strapped in. You look at the cab sitting there. The engine. The transmission to one side. The front wheels on top still. It shakes you up. The cab finally coming to rest on busy seventh street at the moment no other cars on the road. It has to be a miracle. That a car was shot sitting down here or going by. Richard incredibly after the cab sheered off, went airborne, slid down 45feet embankment. Bank seconds later was alert and talking to paramedics. He is a lucky man. Richard we heard black alert and talking to the paramedics. The authorities now trying to determine if he should face charges or not. Live in frederick, richard reeve, abc7 news. Alison what a story. Now we move to new developments involving white house adviser kellyanne conway. The office of government ethic is recommending the white house investigate and if necessary discipline conway for promoting ivanka trumps product line on tv. The director has given the white house until the 28th to respond to this. The republican chairman of the House Oversight committee called conways remarks on fox news over the line and unacceptable. Larry less than a month in office and president Trumps National security adviser is off the job. Michael flynn resigning over questions over the conversations with a top russian diplomat. Now Mitch Mcconnell says it is highly likely flynn will be investigated. Kenneth moton has the latest. Kenneth the white house on security adviser michael flynn. The evolving eroding trust in this and series of questionable incidents is what led the president to ask for general flynns resignation. Kenneth flynn forced to leave about the conversations with the Russian Ambassador as the u. S. Was hitting russia with sanctions. We know they were told weeks ago that flynn was lying. Press secretary spice space spice wouldnt give de press Secretary Sean Spicer wouldnt give details but says he didnt do anything illegal. Its not if he did anything illegal but whether he could be trusted further. Trump tweeted the real question is what is coming out of washington . Its not that they discovered the falsehood but that it became public. Democrats demanding investigation. There are potential violation of law by flynn and others. Republicans with mixed reaction. I wont judge this until we have all the information. There is an administration that is in significant disarray as far as National Security is concerned. They need to fix that. Russian lawmakers call flynns resignation antirussian paranoia. Keith kellogg will serve as the acting National Security advisers but there are contendersers for a permanent replacement, including retired general david petraeus. Kenneth moton, abc7 news. Alison there is now an added layer of protection for virginians at risk from the president s travel ban. This ban was conceived out of religious bigotry. And then it was actually making americans and our armed forces less safe and less security. Alison it halts a ban until a final outcome is reached in the court. It provides to not just virginia residents and green card holders but to students and employees at colleges and universities in the commonwealth as well. A court ruling in Washington State put the travel ban on hold nationwide. Larry normal february day around the area today but the roller coaster temperatures are about to return. Lets get to chief meteorologist doug hill. Doug its on the cool side today. We had cloudiness today but late in the afternoon we have areas of clearing. A few hours of partly cloudy skies. After midnight it will roll back in. Its 45 in reagan. Its 43 in annapolis. Fredericksburg at 47. The temperatures will drop in the evening but only to the midtoupper 30s. That is good news if you are heading day. The temperatures will slowly fall to the 40s with partly cloudy skies. The clouds are coming back. From a system approaching from the west. The rain stays south. Clouds in the morning. Cold fronted will get through and clear and breezy, chilly weather late tomorrow afternoon and thursday. We will lay out those numbers coming up in ten minutes. Alison thank you. The case of a missing teen in Fairfax County is now connected to another missing girl who was found dead over the weekend. Stephen tschida attended a News Conference about an hour ago, and he is live in fairfax with the details he has learned about this. Stephen we have learned that the Fairfax Police believe this missing 17yearold Venus Romero Iraheta is in danger tonight. This is after talking with family and friends of iraheta and those of the missing 15yearold who wound up dead. Her body discovered this past weekend. Individuals who are in custody on gangrelated charges. This is what one of the Police Officers had to say about the relationship between the homicide victim, the 15yearold and Venus Romero Iraheta. You know that the 15 yearold and the victim is known to each other in one way or another. More will come out when we conclude the investigation in the case. Stephen Fairfax County police saying they believe that there are many overlapping incidents nexus between the cases. And possibly between that and the missing 15yearold who was missing for several weeks. But then showed up within the past few days with her baby. She returned safely. But under mysterious circumstances. Tonight a plea for help to find the missing 17yearold. That is the latest larry thank you. Lessons learned from the deadly Silver Spring apartment explosion. The county explains what they need to change to prevent it happening again. Alison plus, the first lady announced when white house tours will start up again. You do not represent anything they stand for. Larry remember that scene from last week . Coming up, hear from d. C. Schools chancellor about what happened inside when betsy devos was blocked outside. Lisa im Lisa Fletcher with an important consumer alert. We show you the latest scam that has the attorney general issuing a strong warning to pepco customers. Seniors and Small Businesses are the tar why are you checking i want to see if it changed. Credit scores dont change that much do they . Really . Ake it sir, your credit. Is great, right . 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. Alison three thieves are on the run in Prince Georges County after officers thwarted the plans to steal two a. T. M. s. The suspects were caught on video trying to use a white van and chain to basically yank an a. T. M. From a gas station in new carrollton. They were unsuccessful. They took off in a van after Police Arrived and then they threw another stolen a. T. M. At the officers. The suspects made it to suitland road in southern avenue before they abandoned the van and ran away. Larr consumer alert tonight. Criminals are impersonating pepco trying to scam district and maryland residents. Alison our Senior Investigative reporter Lisa Fletcher is here with a strong warning about this one. Lisa sometimes its obvious when its a scam. But when the caller i. D. Looks legit and in this case it comes up as pepco its harder to know the truth of who is calling you. Recent wave of fraudulent calls of people claing to be pepco billing employees prompted the attorney general to issue a consumer alert today. He says Small Businesses and retirees are in the sights of the criminals. We see enhanced targeting of senior citizens, particularly here when you talk about power and heat in the winter. Finding and apprehending the scammers is very difficult. That is why the best protection is to not get scammed in the first place. Lisa the way to know two things. First, pepco does not call and demand payment. They send letters and they work with you. Second, anytime you are told to immediately pay with a wire transfer, cashiers check or money order its probably a scam. If you pate it the money is gone for good. Hang up, call the office immediately if it happens to you. We have special numbers on our website at wjla. Com. So you can check that out as well. Alison when its so specific to a bill that you pay every month you can see why people would be nervous. Lisa very confusing. Larry thanks. Appreciate that. Take a look at this. Crews working nonstop to fill the damaged spillway in california. Oroville dam. New today, they are reporting progress and lifting evacuation orders. It was after concerns that the spillway could collapse and send a watch of water sending gushing downstream. Sean spicer says the president is keeping a close eye on what is happening. The area is expecting more Officials Say that dam can now handle. Alison okay. So promising update for that. Good news. We have a little bit of a warmup headed our way again. Doug a specific one. It will get chillier tomorrow and colder thursday and friday and then warm up through the weekend and next week. The trends are we will keep above average temperatures by and large through the end of february. Start with the time lapse. Its a beautiful sunrise in many areas this morning with an orange glow above the horizon. Plenty of cloud cover. This view from northwest washington along idaho avenue. 43 degrees there now. Take a look at the cloud cover finally begin to break late afternoon. I stayed cloudy. The temperatures are down a bit. We got sunshine and patches of blue. Partly cloudy skies for a while. Then the clouds roll back in again. As far as the numbers go, mid40s in the entire region. 46 at joint base andrews now. 48 in wa 47 in martinsburg. 45 in college park and washington dulles. Through this evening, Outdoor Activities will be fine. Chilly. Winds will be light. Skies will be partly cloudy. Comfortable evening for february 14. As far as what is coming our way, we have our eyes on the cloud cover that will come back in. Its just south now. Lift back in overnight tonight. This area of rain i think will stay ahead of a cold front and stay south. Perhaps southern maryland, Northern Neck might get a brief shower. We will wake up to cloud cover. Through the day tomorrow that should clear out. Here is how the stormwatch7 future cast sees things. 1 30 in the morning. Fairly clear with the cloudiness to the south. It overspreads the area. By 6 30, 7 30, 8 00 in the morning we could see rain over the northern maryland, Northern Neck. We should see skies clear once the cold front comes through. It will be in good shape for the afternoon. Cloudy first part of the day. Then partly sunny and breezy in highs could reach 50. Then the temperatures will start falling later. Look at the future wind gusts. Nothing like yesterday morning. Wind gusts tomorrow, around 10 to 15 Miles Per Hour at 10 00 in the morning. They will pick up to 15, 20, 23 Miles Per Hour in afternoon and stay breezy in the nighttime hours. Nothing on the magnitude yesterday morning and late sunday night with the winds. Showers south for day planner tomorrow early in the morning. 38 degrees. 44 with the sun breaking through at 11 00. Then we see the temperatures fall off in afternoon. Breezy and plenty of sunshine for the afternoon. The next few days this is what we have number wise. 50, 40, 45. Mild and then it will start to turn cooler. Then start to warm you up as we start off the president s day weekend forecast. 60 on saturday. A lot of sunshine. Nshine but period of cloudiness on sunday. 63. 65 on president s day. Plenty of sunshine. So for the middle of february a great threeday weekend weather forecast. The forecast nd ups, downs and ups again for the weekend. 65 on monday. Next week, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday temperatures in the 60s. Cooling to upper 50s by thursday and friday next week we have been spoiled by the winter. Doug the craziest temperature pattern weekend i have seen. Larry wow doug that is a lot of winters i have seen. Bizarre. Alison okay. Thank you. Larry thank you. Well, on this valentines day, one local court clerk is marking a big milestone. Alison why a wedding today may have meant as much to him as it did to the couple tying the knot. I am glad she came. Hear from the d. C. Schools chancellor on the visit from betsy devos. Alison this is what you can watch tonight and now Autria Godfrey with what the good morning Washington Team is working on tomorrow. Atria t tomorrow on good morning washington, new moms unable to breastfeed turning to strangers. But at what cost to their babys health . Plus Founding Member of the Supremes Mary wilson back on the scene here live. Stay with us for traffic and weather every ten minutes tomorrow morning starting at 4 25 on good morning washington. Z29kuz zstz y29kuy ysty larry after prevented from entering a school in d. C. , secretary of Education Betsy Devos received words from support at the president at a white house event this morning. I want to congratulate you on going through a tough trial and an unfair trial. And you won. There is something nice about that. Larry the president joined devos at a meeting with parents and teachers that focused heavily on school choice. Devos is a longtime advocate for vouchers and Charter Schools. Alison the new education secretary met with the new d. C. School chancellor. Larry d. C. Bureau chief sam ford sat down with Antwan Wilson to talk about the meeting and how the job is going now that he is a few months in. Sam when protesters prevented jection secretary betsy devos entering the academy. One of the person she was going to visit was the new d. C. Chancellors Antwan Wilson. She september and today described the visit. The secretary expressed interest learning firsthand about the work in d. C. And then she expressed her desire to support Public Schools and the belief in choice to provide families options. Sam chancellor said he does not agree with the education secretary about everything but he is glad she came. Public schools is where she should be. D. C. Takes over with the Charter Schools almost caught up with enrollment. He doesnt see himself in competition but we want to make sure that the families know you dont have to go across town and across state lines to get a great education, you can get it right here in dcps. Sam the Good Relationship he says benefits the dcps and he supports the right of people to protest. I dont think it is ever good for people to cross the lain in any way infringe upon the secretary of education. She is not in a position to since how best to support us if she never comes and visits our school. Sam in northeast washington, im sam ford, abc7 news. Larry Health Insurance giants aetna and humana are abandoning a merger after a judge refused approval. Humana gets a 1 million breakup fee. Last week we told you about another merger that was blocked. Cigna wants 2 billion for that breakup fee. Alison m coming up next at 5 00 it is a smaller, a lesserknown museum but it is tacked full of history. The trip you need to take if you cant get in the National Museum of African American history and culture. Scott im scott thuman live on capitol hill. New information regarding the controversial travel ban, especially about the seven that fight is far from over. Update coming up next. A father in mourning searches for answers as we speak. So is the Prince Georges Police department. Im