Will weaken and a new storm will form close enough to the Atlantic Ocean it pulls in heavy rain and as that transition is taking place maybe even a rumble of thunder for us as the new storm takes over. Heres what you should expect tomorrow. Its mostly a wet evening commute. It may be heavy enough to cause some flooding of small streams and creeks. At 8 a. M. If we see anything, it would be very spotty and a light mix to our west. Our temperature here locally 35, 43 at noon with showers developing and chilly rain at 4 00, temperature 41. More on that forecast and any other rain chances a bit later. A man accused of killing a High School Student is behind bars. 18yearold marckel ross gunned down last september walking to school in capitol heights. 20yearold travon bennett has been charged with the murder. Ross was killed during an attempted robbery. Ross was one of six Prince Georges County students killed this school year. Tonight neighbors and parents gathered to mourn and ask police for help. Fox 5s Lauren Demarco has the story. Police say some of the deadly violence stems from gang issues, robbery also a motive. The key is preventing it. So what can be done . Radio one hosted a state of emergency meeting at suitland Recreation Center so that Prince Georges County officials could unite with the people they serve and try to come up with answers. Children are dropping out of school. Top Prince Georges County leaders and Law Enforcement spoke at the town hall style meeting attended by about 200 concerned residents. Our children are our responsibility and i mean as a community. States attorney Angela Alsobrooks says there are too many children dropping out of school. Representatives from mentoring group highlighted the need for male role models asking men to stand up and take responsibility for their children. Thats what im talking about. Some in the crowd took to their feet in a literal show of support. Since the start of the School Year SixPublic School students have been killed in separate incidents. The gun violence has to stop. The guns have to get off the street. These innocent children are being taken for no reason. Erica proctors son was shot and killed one year ago just a few blocks from where 15year old suitland High School StudentCharles Walker jr. Was gunned down just last week. Proctor is hoping the community can stick together to stop this trend of violence. I think its starting at home because you have a lot of these parents that are young raising these kids. Police cant be everywhere and some Community Members are encouraging neighbors to step up and help tell police if they see something. When it comes to people doing something wrong and were all afraid to get involved and when you dont become involved, youre part of it. Police chief mark magaw says the number of tips coming into the crime solvers hotline was up 300 last week and police plan to expand the program into the school system. Basically just a website they would go to, still anonymous but kids in the school have a lot of information. Thats where the School Resource officer is so important for us to build relationships in the school. Thats what they do every day. Council member karen tolls says the county is also working to make a difference. Well be making a plan to have action. We can have all the meetings we want, but we want action and you will see action. Theyll be meeting tomorrow. Of the six students killed two cases remain open. Those are amber stan and aaron kidd. Stanley and aaron kidd. Investigators are close to making arrests. Anyone with information should come forward. The four cases closed were all solved with tips from the community. The search continues for a suspect wanted in the connection of a murder with an elderly couple in virginia. Deputies handed out flyers in Fauquier County asking if anyone has seen 59yearold John Wesley Jeffries believed to have beaten 84yearold nelson slack and his 74year old wifette nell their home saturday. Friends knew something was wrong when the couple didnt show up for church. They say the crime has shaken their community. Quite a shock. You dont expect that to happen in your community. Its always down the road somewhere. Jeffries is wanted in Spotsylvania County for an caught case last month where he was charged with abduction. Hes currently listed on virginias sex offender registry. The man convicted for trying to assassinate president reagan back in court today to see if he should continue living in a mental institution. Lawyers for John Hinckley say hes spent too much time at washingtons st. Elizabeths hospital. His lawyers want to expand his privileges. Hes been allowed 10 day visits at his mothers home in virginia. They believe he should spend more time there. The countdown to spending cuts is on. Congress has just over three days to reach a deal with the white house to avoid 85 billion in across the board cuts. These could affect every state and the District Of Columbia, impacting the military, teachers, schools, public health. Today one local lawmaker got a small taste of the frustration and anger over the looming sequestration cuts. Fox 5s Tom Fitzgerald has that story. Reporter Tim Adams Tim Adams says his company is already being hurt by sequestration which runs Training Programs for the military. With only 350 workers the company may have to furlough or lay off staff if automatic budget cuts hit friday. We have to make those cuts now. We cant make up for it later. Reporter sequestration will dig deep into marylands economy. Consider this. There are 60 federal agencies located in this state, 17 military installations and in all of marylands workforce its made up of 60 of federal workers. What were doing now are selfinflicted wounds. Reporter maryland senator ben cardin huddled with Prince Georges CountyBusiness Owners. I will not be able to add more employees in the workforce. Reporter they are worried about what 85 billion in across the board federal cuts will do to jobs in this area. They take effect for any length of time, theyre going to have a major drag on our economy. Reporter but he also got an earful about congress itself and the endless cycle of budget crisis after budget crisis. If i dont meet a deadline, im either in breach of contract or im disqualified from a procurement. Anybody else separate under those guidelines . And yet congress can keep pushing their deadline to the right. Reporter and tim adams points out if congress falls back on its previous move of kicking the can down the road, it will do nothing he says to remove the uncertainty government distributes are feeling. Putting it down the street, push contractors are feeling. Putting it down the street, pushing it down two months and not having a true resolution will not help us. Reporter for now all Business Owners can do is watch, wait and hope something gets done. In Prince Georges County, Tom Fitzgerald, fox 5 news. D. C. Drivers will soon see a difference on their license plates. The plates will now say District Of Columbia instead of washington d. C. Mayor gray announced the changes last week. The slogan taxation without representation will remain on the plates. It reflects the fact d. C. Residents dont have voting representation in congress. Coming up an amazing recovery after a bad accident. I just think it is the greatest surgery in that it gives patients back their lives. How doctors used a mans toe to reconstruct his hand next. This is the news edge at 11 00. [ woman ] my boyfriend and i were going on vacation, so i used my Citi Thankyou card to pick up some accessories. A new belt. Some nylons. And what girl wouldnt need new shoes . And with all the points ive been earning, i was able to get us a flight to our favorite climbing spot, even on a holiday weekend. Things are definitely. Looking up. [ male announcer ] with no blackout dates, you can use your Citi Thankyou points to travel whenever you want. Visit citi. Com thankyoucards to apply. An injury or accident can change a life in an instant, but as youre about to see, advances in medicine can sometimes restore whats been taken away. This story may shock you, might even make you a little squeamish, but it will show you how miracles can happen. Heres fox 5s beth parker. Reporter this massive drill can cut through steel. Like that, like you couldnt even pling your eyes. Reporter thats how fast iron worker and volunteer firefighter matt mcsherry lost his thumb last april. It caught the rag, rag wrapped around my thumb, pulled my thumb off. Reporter thats right. His entire thumb was torn off. Absolute shock. I was like my thumb, thats not what im supposed to look at. Reporter just hours after the accident in bladensburg, maryland, dr. Ryan katz and a team at Curtis National Hand Center at medstar Memorial Hospital in baltimore tried to sew matts thumb back on. It didnt work. This is dried skin graft, a large wound. Here is the thumb, so it hasnt made it. Reporter but that is not where this story ends. Thanks to dramatic advances in microvascular surgery matt had another option. Its a bit of a leap at first for people to consider taking a toe to rebuilt a thumb. Reporter until you take a closer look at your big toe. It looks like the thumb. It acts like a thumb. Reporter matt is young and active. Remember he fights fires in his spare time. So he talked it over with his girl friend who is studying physical therapy and athletic training. My fiancee from her medical background is like if theyre telling you you can have a thumb that will work just as good, if not better than if they had reattached your original thumb, you should go with it. Reporter so matt put his faith in dr. Katz. Dr. Katz, yeah. Hes the man. Reporter the man who stresses that this is not just a surgery. Its a process. First they had to attach matts happened to his hip to grow extra hand to his hip to grow extra skin to sew the toe onto. He had to stay that way for about four weeks. Just hang out with my hand on my hip. Reporter then on august 21st, 2012, the team removed matts big toe and sewed it onto his hand. The complicated surgery took nearly nine hours. They actually took a pretty sizable chunk of vein out of my right ankle, skin from my left arm here and they used it all to reattach my thumb. Reporter it worked. Here you can see an immediate postoperative setting with still more work to go how much more natural this looks. Reporter in later surgeries they trim the fat and the skin basically sculpt the toe to make it look more like a thumb and now just six months after matts major toe thumb implant . I can do a little bit of that and i can come all the way down to here. Reporter he doesnt have all the feeling in his hand and it has been a difficult painful journey, but matt is back on the job. And back at the fire station in college park. Here is what his foot looks like. Ill just never wear the flipflops. Reporter but thats a small price to pay for the use of his hand. How grateful are you to these doctors . Beyond. I cant even explain it. Im always excited by this surgery. This surgery is everything to me. I just think it is the greatest surgery in that it gives patients back their lives. Reporter dr. Katzs patients can button a shirt. Thats hard to do without your thumb. Reporter matt has good balance. Now i can walk, run, do whatever i need to do. If you can give them back form and function, its a home run. Reporter matt gets a lot of questions from curious strangers. What happened to your thumb . Actually thats my toe. My thumb was ripped off and theyre like thats your toe in complete disbelief. Reporter at a glance youd never know and thats the whole idea. In college park beth parker, fox 5 news. Great story. Fantastic. Hard to believe tonight is the fool moon, such a crazy weekend. The moon was beautiful. A lot of people were talking about that tonight and at least we could see it. The clouds held off. Clouds will be in here tomorrow night and youll need your umbrella. Its mostly going to be a wet effect on us, but off to our west youll have potential for icy accumulation along the interstate 81 corridor and the Higher Elevations above 1,000 feet. What are we looking at . Probably a mostly dry morning and enough rain tomorrow afternoon and evening we have some flood watches. It means there is the potential. This is different than a flash flood watch. This is for streams and creeks and rivers that could potentially run high and you the typical roads that can flood with a lot of runoff. The ground is kind of hard. Weve not only been cold but very dry. There will be runoff likely top afternoon. The evening commute i think is affected. Now this Winter Weather advisory kicks in for the mountains and Higher Elevations west of us including Washington County at 7 a. M. So youve got to be prepared you could have a combination of freezing rain and sleet, maybe a little snow, but were much more concerned there will be an ice buildup, maybe enough to accumulate with the sleet and combination of snow and ice you get an inch in some areas, 1 10 of which could be ice. Its all coming from this big system which has been producing record snows for wichita. It may go down as the snowiest month ever in wichita with the back to back snowstorms. Oklahoma had it real rough today and even in missouri st. Louis is starting to get snow now, a lot of heavy rain to the south. This positioning is important because this part of the storm will redo and it will have access to the redevelop and it will have access to the Atlantic Ocean. Theres a lot of moisture pulled into this thing tomorrow afternoon. Well probably end up with about 1 2inch or 1 4inch. We have some spots to our west already in the 20s to near 30s, so we have to watch these areas in the morning because there could be some moisture getting in there sooner along interstate 81 you may have some freezing rain or sleet. It might start as sleet even in the district tomorrow afternoon and many of our areas in the surrounding communities, but it will quickly change over to rain. Overnight temperatures upper 20s to low and mid30s, 34 in the district. Clouds will increase but suburbs will be colder. Tomorrow 44 degrees. The wind out of the east tomorrow afternoon picks up. That is a damp wind and a moisture laden wind direction. Well have that messy mix north and west, but rain here and prepare for not only the umbrellas, but the east wind will make it feel colder. So rather a raw day as the first area of low pressure weakens and a new one develops pulling in the rain and warm air aloft so that the icy mix is confined mainly to our north and west. This area of low pressure will zip away from us tomorrow night. Wednesday will be mild, but well have another front that may squeeze out a few more showers later at night on wednesday. So were kind of all over the place. Well show you quickly the futurecast. At 1 00 tomorrow we still have rain to our south and west. Some of that rain may be heavy. You can see some yellows and oranges for the evening rush hour, especially south and west of d. C. The snow, the pink and blue colors all confined to the west, and at 11 00 tomorrow night still raining here, should be gone by 7 a. M. Wednesday, but then a couple more showers try to pop into the picture late wednesday. So wednesdays forecast on our fox 5 accuweather sevenday forecast above 58 degrees, that ought to feel good after tomorrow. Thursday a couple showers at 52 and then were staying in the 40s for friday, saturday, sunday and monday. In fact, were getting colder heading through the second part of the weekend into monday at 40 degrees. So not much spring in sight even though march is on the sevenday forecast now. Thats it for weather. Lets send it over to scott and see how the wizards and raptors did tonight. The wizards and raptors arent exactly in the playoff conversation. They combine for fewer wins than the nba leading spurs, but records aside looking at the last few weeks theyre two of the hotter teams in the leagues. Both won six of their last eight games. One of the wizards losses came against toronto last week. Tonight rematch at the air canada centre. In the late 3rd, averaging over 20 points per games over the last six games, wizards up five. Spin move nene, bucket and foul, threepoint play. The wizards with an 11 point lead. Final minute trimmed to five. John wall wants to keep them separated, drives, finishes, 10 points, seven assists and a nice big smile. Wizards top the raptors tonight. Georgetown hoops cracked the a. P. Top 10 for the seventh year. The hoyas up to seventh. Rivieras named rookie of the week after 33 points last week against depaul and otto porter jr. Conference player of the week. Alexander semin is fifth on the caps all time goals list but is not missed in the blocker room. In an interview today caps winger troy brouwer said some nights he didnt even know if semin was going to come to the rink. Semin and his current team visit the Verizon Center tomorrow. Defenseman john erskine signed a two year extension and Braden Holtby secured through 2015 with a price tag of 3. 7 million. Holtby has won four games in six straight starts in the last two weeks with a save percentage of 925 happy to get the deal out of the way. I didnt really want to come down into a stressful summer. So i think thats the biggest thing to have that out of way and just focus on hockey now. It just feels good to have it done and now i can move forward. Hes found his game again. He was off his game earlier in the year and that may happen goi