And a lot more. Larry . I guess we have to stay in the airport or find a hotel. Well see. Larry that is at b. W. I. , where a quarter of the flights coming in today were canceled. This flight aware misery map right now. You can see here, things are the worst in chicago today. Once the storm hits. The airports from our area to boston could see more problems. The transportation reporter Brianne Carter is live at Reagan National airport surveying the situation for us. Brianne well, right now, larry, we have a number of delays. The name of the game is trying to get out ahead of whatever Mother Nature brings in here. The good news, in the last hour, the security lines decreasing. So folks are coming here to try to get on one of the last minute flights this is looking good. That is the key. Time is running out. We are getting out of here. At Reagan National airport. Folks lined up to try to beat Mother Nature. A number of people flying tonight or tomorrowtr flight. The baxters booked on a noon flight tuesday hope to fly home today. The flights are full. We cant get to dallas early. Brianne 1,500 flights up and down the east coast have been canceled ahead of any snow. My concern is with the weather. Brianne all American Airline flights before 8 00 a. M. Out of Reagan National tomorrow have been waved off. The weather is expected to disrupt the train travel in the northeast as well. Business as usual at the Union Station today. Tomorrow trains from here to boston will run on a modified schedule. That is if they are not canceled. The baxters say they would like to home by midweek but they are taking it in stride. Stay and have fun in d. C. Brianne a number of airlines here telling us that the evening flights are booked. There is no chance to get on one of those if you dont have a ticket. Meanwhile, the wavers have been issued for a number of ourlines to change the flight to another day. Watching and waiting. A lot tonight. Reporting live, Brianne Carter, abc7 news. Alison thank you. From Hardware Stores for ice melt and shovels to the Grocery Stores and the gas stations. A lot of people spent the day getting ready for the storm. Maryland bureau chief in frederick that is expected to be in bullseye for the winter whiplash. Brad . Brad yeah. We have been told we are going to get ten inches at least by doug hill and perhaps even more. I talked to one of the city leaders who wandered by and they said locally they were thinking more. Right now its still beautiful if baker park. But the skies have clouded up. It was bright blue sky half an hour ago. There is a chill in the air. Even so, we are talking to people out here who are having a hard tame believing this is coming. This is great. It will give me time to focus on school. A little time off work. Get back grind. It was 70 degrees three days ago. Now its like we are going backwards. One last hooray. Brad that is what he says. The streets in this part of town have not been brined. But on the major roads they have been. One thing i have been doing is looking at the road temperature sensors across the state. The pavement is still pretty warm. So the temperature will have to drop and the snow has to fall heavily to make an impact on the streets. We will be here in frederick for the duration of the winner weather event. Back to you. Larry thanks. President trump tweeting out this afternoon he hopes everyone on the east coast stays safe and listens to the local officials. German chancellor Angela Merkel canceling plans to be with the president tomorrow because of the forecast. Stephen tschida picks up the Team Coverage from southeast washington with a look at how the Nations Capital is colder outside. But inside this salt dome it will heat up soon. They are going to take the salt and spreading it out across the district highway and byway. We have the video the prepreparation loading up the trucks earlier today. This is what mayor Muriel Bowser had to say about how the district is getting ready for this storm. Mayor bowser the snow team is preparing for a full deployment. That means we will have more than 200 plows scheduled out on the streets. They will be at the post by 7 00 p. M. Tonight. Stephen that means they will be arriving here at the salt dome very soon loading up and getting ready to head out there and get the streets, the roads treated in advance of this looming storm. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Alison okay. Thank you very much. A note about the metro access. They have suspended ahead of the storm. Metro says the service will will not run at all tomorrow. Metrorail is operating normally tonight but tomorrow it will be open at 5 00 a. M. And then run on a saturday schedule. Generally speaking, once we get eight inches of snow or more on the ground the Service Starts getting suspended and above ground stations. Metro bus service will be dependent on the amount of snow and how quickly the roads can get cleared. Larry the snow totals for the storm could change with the slightest shift. The stormwatch7 team is doing the Facebook Live to answer your questions every two hours throughout the evening. The Northern Bureau chief is live in loudoun county. Jeff goldberg, i understand that governor mcauliffe already declared a state of emergency in the old dominion . Jeff that is right, larry. That came out an hour and a half ago. Governor mcauliffe declaring a state of emergency meaning the state agencies and the National Guard can help out there is a need from the storm. We are in snowtrak7. We are watching this come through the leesburg area. This is market streak. The main thoroughfare in leesburg. Every time it gets a big snow here, the traffic slows down a bit. We are outside the giant on market street. This is probably one of the main Grocery Store in leesburg. We saw plenty of people stocking up on the provisions in preparation of the storm to buy milk, eggs, cereal all that you expect for a snowstorm. They will be preparing for the storm and the schools being closed. Some are looking to help others as they prepare for storm. We saw a post on facebook that the leesburg homeless shelter needs eggs, toilet paper, oatmeal, batteries. For the storm . For storm. Here we are. We stocked up ourselves. This is for everybody else. Jeff everybody is getting frederick we have seen the weather change quite a bit here in leesburg. The skies filled with clouds. Its colder. The wind picked up and the storm could come through soon. We will be here watching it all. Live in leesburg, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. Larry thank you. This is a good idea. Take a moment now to sign up for School Closing alerts from abc7 news. You can do that. Its easy. Go to wjla. Com text. Alison tune in to good morning washington. Larry, you will be there. Starting early at 4 00 a. M. Larry i will go to bed at 6 15 after the show. You might want to download the stormwatch7 app for the smart phone or the tablet. It is a great idea in case you lose power for the storm. Alison police are searching for three men who broke in a gun store in chantilly. They got away with 35 firearms. Them breaking in saturday morning on metro tech drive. Police are investigating whether the robbery is connected to another gun store robbery last week in rockville. Larry developing now another wave of bomb threats targeting jew kish schools and Community Centers around the country. Five locations receive threats sunday. They coincide with the religious holiday that honored the plot to exterminate jews in persia. None of the threats turned out to be real. Authorities in poland seeking arrest and extradition of a minnesota plan believe to be a nazi commander in world war ii. The 98yearold is accused of ordering the burning of polish villages in 1944. His family maintains his innocence and says today he suffers from alzheimers. Alison new information regarding the 2014 Police Shooting of michael brown. An attorney plans to release an unedited version of the Surveillance Video showing brown in ti store. This was the same day he was shot. The move comes after the documentary stranger fruit. That was released and it had a video claiming that brown did not rob the store and picked up an item he left behind the night before. The Attorney Says the video is edited and he plans on releasing an authentic video. Larry the former fairfax mayor Scott Silverthorne pleading guilty today related to a police sting. They caught him using a website to meet men and trade meth for sexual encounters. Up until the plea, he was not in jail. Today a judge ruled to have him held without bond while he awaits sentencing. He faces up to 40 years in prison. Alison we have breaking news in the past hour the Nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released the report on the impact of the republicans obamacare replacement. Under the plan the c. B. O. Predicts 14 million americans will Lose Health Insurance next over the next decade. Even before the estimate came out, President Trump and Republican Leaders in congress dismissed the findings as misleading. Moments ago, the white house said it strenuously disagrees with this analysis. Coming up next here at 5 00 the item starts asking questions after a man finds something that seems less than nutrition in a protein shake. 16 to 20 inches of snow expected. Larry plus our area isnt the only one gearing up for snow. Look at what could be in store for the northeast. Learn later what the weekend cold and the snow could mean for the Cherry Blossoms. Credit karma . Why are you checking your credit score . You dont want to drive old blue forever, do you . [brakes squeak] credit karma. Give yourself some credit. Larry we are on a stormwatch7 Winter Weather alert. Live doppler. There is a system coming up from the south that doug is talking about. We will check back with him in a few moments. The precipitation beginning to move in. We will get more in a couple of minutes. Alison larry, as we know the cold from the storm is coming from midwest caused plenty of traffic problems just like this over the past 24 hours. Jay korff is in the mobile track to look at the steps that the crews are taking around here to prepare local roads. Hi, jay. Jay hey, guys. Want to let you know, we want to show you something unique. We were just driving by route 28 in the chantilly area. This is like a staging area for snowplows. They have filled up to the brim with the salt as well. We can see from the back shot, we have a number of cameras to go back and forth on. They are ready and waiting. Vdot has in the neighborhood of 4,500 pieces of equipment on standby. We are thinking they might hit the roads around 7 00 to 8 00. Depends how the track moves. We know our friends east in maryland, maryland state Highway Administration have in the neighborhood of 2,500 to 2,600 pieces of equipment. Ot has 200 plows. Stephen tschida reported on that a short time ago. Everybody is on standby. Waiting and waiting. If you go to the roads, everything is move sailing. The brine, the mixtures are down. We will continue to report how the conditions evolve or deevolve as the evening goes on. Jay korff, mobiletrak7. Back to you. Larry thank you. Kellye lynn picks up our Team Coverage from arlington. Kellye the monster storm is affecting tens of millions of people in the northeast and the midwest and the southeast. A blankets of snow across the midwest comes as a big surprise in the region. Last week in the 60s. Now we have snow on the ground. Every report we have is it will snow it will create whiteout conditions. Kellye blizzard warnings across the northeast. Followed of wind speeds of 35 to 50 miles per hour. The visibility is less than a quarter of a mile. Its a messy and a challenging mix that has the airlines canceling thousands of flights. More than 60 Million People are in the path of the storm. We have seen a consistent pat soren far with the storm pattern so far with the storm. This should be a serious blizzard. One everyone should take seriously. Kellye a low pressure system is expected to combine with the storm that is battering the midwest. Result is a massive noreaster that could bring as much as two feet of snow. In new york they are not taking any chances. And preparing for the worst. Public schools are closed tomorrow. Many flights grounded. In arlington, kellye lynn, abc7 news. Alison all right. So there is still just a unpredictable. Doug yeah, a lot. The big unpredictability, the biggest is due to the rain snow line. Because the storm where it is developing and where it will develop, not quite developed yet, it is closer to us than originally thought. When it happens it will bring in more warm air. So instead of all snow, its snow, sleet, rain and back and forth. If the storm was develop 75 or 80 miles east wed be all slow. You will have a mix and some accumulation. We will start with a smile on your face because seven days from today, the first day of spring. It might be in the 50s then. It might be. That sounds warm compared to what we are dealing with now. With the temperatures in the 40s right now. And the Winds Continuing to gust. The temperatures in the 40s this time of day with the rain moving in from the south is good news. Even when it turns colder overhead at times later, initially it will fall through the warmer air and contact. Sooner or later the temperatures start to fall. The snow will get heavier. Then we have issues. The question is where will that happen . It seems the best chances will be farther north, and eventually northeast. We will get a big bang. We will get bits and pieces of it. This is rain now falling south of the metro area. This is the leading edge of the center. Rain is an issue and eventually snow and sleet. Right now the algorithm on the Doppler Radar picking up a snowflakes or mix over the middle pennsylvania over tappahannock. This is yet part of the fully develop system. You can see the energy there. The moisture and the energy from the west. I will do a number in the next few hours and develop. It will start moving north. As it does it will get stronger and stronger and then how do we figure this out this who will get what . We can take the best guesstimate on the experience, the data model outlook. That is what we share with you. For now, winter storm warning north and west. South and east. These may change later this evening by the National Weather service. They put it out. You see according to the future cast by later this everything we have a lot of rain mixing in and sleet. Most of the snow is north. As the storm moves out overnight, the colder air comes in and changes it to all snow. That is when we start to pick up awe cumulations. By tomorrow afternoon the sun might peak out. Or try to. Gusty winds. On top of that we will see the passing snowshower or rain shower. After we get rid of the precipitati, wind and cold. Steve will pick up the story from the Weather Center from there. Steve it will be windy later tonight and tomorrow morning and then throughout the day to wednesday. The projected wind gusts, 70 in the morning. But the closer to the beach and ocean city, the wind gusts are close to 6 o miles per hour. The winds will ease a little bit on wednesday. Still breezy conditions. Temperatures well below average for this time of year. We are not the only ones warnings outside of philadelphia. New york city. Entire area including long island under blizzard warning. They could look it upward of 18 inches of snow. Winter storm warning for the boston area. Lets see how much snow we are expecting here. Doug . Doug the computer models show 6 00 in the morning we have rain in the area and mixed north and west. We will have heavy wet snow. By 8 30 the colder air will come back in and the northerly wind so it will change back to snow and mix. People along the bay will stay stuck in the rain. At noon there will be snow in the area to deal with. Temperatures above freezing and the gusty winds take over. As far as how much, this is the latest incident. Two to six in this range for the district. Will it be two or six . In between. And more north and east. A work in progress. We are wai in the evening, steve is with you all night long. We will keep you up to date as it changes and the storm warms up to a blockbuster. Back to you. Alison doug, thank you very much. Pepco says it has more than 2,500 employees ands contractors who are standing by to dealed with downed power lines, trees and any other power problem. Larry but the storm could have the biggest impact on the Cherry Blossom trees along the tidal basin. We will explain how. The d. C. Students enjoyed a special Assembly Today featuring two globe trotters and the celebrity centenarian. I have an update on virginia mclaurin who just turned 108. Larry i love her. Alison i know. Larry i cant wait for that. Alison Veronica Johnson with a preview of what is coming up early on good morning washington. Thanks, alison. Storm on good morning washington we are on stormwatch7 Winter Weather alert. We hv mobiletrak7. Get the latest update on the School Closings, the Road Conditions and the int pact on the commute. Keep it here for traffic and weather every ten know you have a dedicated advisor and team who understand where you come from know you can craft an Investment Plan as strong