25yearold Hari Simran Khalsa was on a retreat in mention dough when he disappeared while in mexico when he disappeared while hiking several days ago. It appeared he died as a result of a hiking accident. Jim osman outside the Spiritual Wellness Center where he taught. Reporter yes, he was indeed a Yoga Instructor, but he was a whole lot more. An outpouring of support from the Sikh Community tonight in sterling to remember the life of 25yearold hari simran singh khalsa, a Yoga Instructor here whose body was found in mexico today after some sort of hiking incident south of mexico city. We have very heavy hearts. We really love this young man. Hes 25 years old, young man born into our community. His parents are westerners who embrace sikhism like i did. Reporter khalsa was last heard from by his wife tuesday. He sent a picture of himself from the mountain top and the message looking down on you. Two hours later he messaged he accidentally summited another mountain and vanished. Search crews have been looking for him ever since. He had a kind heart. He was somebody that just had an amazing spirit. So i can tell you hes somebody that i always will try to emulate, but im not sure ill ever achieve. Reporter word started to spread of the mans death as people arrived for an afternoon gathering of reflection in sterling. The 25yearold khalsa had revived the yoga center and planned to return to his home brooklyn later this month. We believe each human is allotted so many breaths and hes a young man who did such beautiful work sooner than the rest of us, you know. Well miss him greatly, but we believe the soul lives forever. Reporter we learned tonight that khalsa means pure and many folks we talked to tonight say the man was pure of heart. Live in sterling jim osman, wusa9 news. Get ready for some rain. Weve got a yellow alert on her hands this weekend. Youll be on our hands this weekend. Youll be waking up to rain, possibly sleet. Thats right. You can see the approaching storm system here on doppler radar. Its slowly making progress. At 5 00 this picture didnt look that different, but everything is slowly making its way north and east running into some cold air especially north and west of the beltway. Its down to 30 in leesburg, 27 in frederick, 29 in martinsburg, 27 degrees in manassas. As that rain overspreads the region, it will hit that cold air and either freeze on contact when it hits the sidewalk, a tree branch or the raindrop will freeze before it even gets to the ground. That is sleet when you see those tiny little ice balls. Winter weather advisories in effect for all the purple highlighted counties because of that potential for sleet and freezing rain. Not in the immediate beltway area, though. Showers arriving at about 6 00 in the south and west portions of our area. 28 to 34 degrees at that point. A few more showers pushing toward the beltway as we head toward 8 a. M. Temperatures will rise into the mid30s to around 40 degrees by 10 00. Thats going to wash away any ice accumulations, even along the i81 corridor. Yellow alert as you mentioned for tomorrow. Well track the approaching rain with 9 futurecast coming up in the first alert seven day. Muriel bowser sworn in as the citys seventh elected mayor today, only the second woman to hold that position and shes pledging a fresh start in the d. C. Era of politics. Tonight its all about the party. Mola lenghi takes us inside bowsers inaugural ball. Reporter today was about making it official and getting the new mayor of d. C. Sworn in, but tonight is about the party. [ music ] reporter d. C. s new mayor threw a little party friday night. You look beautiful. You look like youre ready for a fresh start, washington. Reporter and a few thousand of muriel bowsers friends stopped by to help her celebrate her new job, mayor of the district of columbia. Were so excited about the new mayor. Its a great thing for the city and looking forward to a lot of stuff happening now. Reporter the ball had it all, women arriving in mink coats, men in tuxes, gowns, bow ties and suits. From the lights to the decorations this party had style. White furniture on a white carpet, stylish, but i can hear my mother telling me not to step on it. We wouldnt want to make a mess. Weve got an energized new city, new mayor. People are having a great time and its actually a pretty good spread for an inaugural ball. Reporter not bad at all. If they werent eating, they were dancing or at least trying to and its not a d. C. Party without d. C. Music. Let me here that go go beat. Of course, this is also not a d. C. Party without talking politics. Tonight bowser is ready to party, but tomorrow will she be ready to be mayor . If anybody is up to the challenge, its mayor muriel bowser. Reporter a lot of people talk about inexperience. What do you think . No. I think she has been part of d. C. Public life since she was a child going around with her parents. She knows this city and its people and those are things that cant be taught. The rest of it i think shell pick up. Reporter if theres one thing she knows how to do is throw a party. She sure does. Its one of the best ones ive seen. Reporter mayor bowser says she is bringing new energy to this new era of the district. While tonight is about the party, tomorrow is about getting the work. At the d. C. Convention center im mola lenghi for wusa9. Looks like a lot of fun. The u. S. Strikes back against north korea in response to recent cyber attacks. This is the first penalty issued by the white house after the hack on sony pictures. A new set of sanctions include north koreas Weapons Program and spy service and the Administration Says this is the first step. The sanctions target two north korean organizations as well as 10 government officials. The white house has imposed sanctions on north korea in the past for its nuclear program, but this new move applies pressure inside and outside government. The number of victims recovered from air asia flight 8501 rose dramatically today. Search crews recovered 21 bodies from the java sea. Its a tiny fraction of the 162 passengers and crew that were on the jetliner, but it marks the most productive search day since the planes disappearance last sunday. The search also turned what appears to be a plane window panel. It will be turned over to indonesian authorities to see if it actually is from the doomed airliner. New york city officials are bracing for thousands of mourners and Police Officers from across the countries to attend this weekends Funeral Service for wenjian liu. Last month liu and his partner rafael ramos was fatally shot as they sat this a patrol car in brooklyn. A 14monthold boy reported missing from frederick died from blunt force trauma. Little cameron beckfords mother Dainesha Stevens originally told investigators she left cameron on a strangers porch in ohio because she couldnt care for him. Later his body was found in a creek, the death ruled a homicide, stephens held on 150,000 bond. The trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is supposed to begin monday. For more than a year and a half federal prosecutors have been building their case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. More than 1,200 people have been summoned as potential jurors in the case. A u. S. District court judge argued it would inconvenience too many people to delay at this point saying defense lawyers have known for months when the trial would begin. The 21yearold faces the Death Penalty after investigators say he set off two bombs at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon with the help of his brother. Four people were killed. 260 others were injured. Many in boston hope the upcoming trial will bring closure. Two bombs exploded ripping apart this womans left leg. I am standing. This week in her hometown of houston, texas, she took her first steps on her new prosthetic leg, small steps moving forward. While some 1,800 miles away the city of boston hopes the start of this long awaited trial will help them do the same. The trial is set to take place at the federal courthouse in boston less than 2 miles from the marathons finish line. Now the latest on a sex scandal hitting great britains royal family, Buckingham Palace denying allegations that a wealthy businessman forced a woman to have sex with Prince Andrew repeatedly when she was a child. The allegations are part of a lawsuit involving billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein who pled guilty to child sex offenses in 2008. Prince andrew is not a target of the lawsuit itself. Federal prosecutors will seek the Death Penalty against the man charged in a deadly shooting rampage at Los Angeles International airport. Paul cianicia is accused of murdering a Security Officer and pled the guilty. Prosecutors say the shooting was a premeditated acts aimed at terrorizing people at one of the busiest airports in the world. A gruesome story out of florida, a man near tampa confessed to using an axe to cut off his mothers head new years eve. He placed the head in a trash can and rode off on a bicycle. According to police he planned the whole attack. Police say he reis noted his mom because he resented his mom because he thought she favored his older brother. A movie may be in the works on the first ebola patient in the u. S. The book will be out in april about duncan. Duncan died at Texas Health Presbyterian last october. Still ahead how one College Students dress may have saved her life. Plus the crazy cost of college and why the price tag is going up even higher. Please join us on wusa9 as we work to bring home every missing child in the washington d. C. Area. May the bird of paradise fly up your nose. Country legend and grand oleopri member Jimmy Dickens died of cardiac arrest today at a National Area hospital. The 4 11 star was known as tater and of the oldest living cast member of the grand ole opry. He was born in West Virginia and made several trips overseas to perform for troops in vietnam vietnam. Beverly hillbillies star Donna Douglas also passed away today. She played the blonde bombshell elly ma on the show. Donna douglas was 82. My little baby was sitting on my lab not hurting a fly. Lap not hurting a fly. She cant walk by herself. She cant sit by herself and here is this woman who just is standing behind the law without putting any humanity into the situation. A new jersey mother of four is accusing United Airlines of humiliating her and her entire family on a recent flight from the Dominican Republic to newark. She said a Flight Attendant refused to allow her 3yearold daughter who has special needs to sit on her lap. The family says their daughter had her own seat, but she is physically unable to sit up on her own. The pilot ended up intervening, but that delayed the flight about an hour. The family doesnt want a refund or revenge. They just want united to own the mistake. The airline has since called the family to apologize. A new study said for the first time public colleges are getting more money from students paying tuition than from State Government subsidies, but according to that federal study this isnt good news. It says median tuition at public colleges has jumped 55 the past nine years and state funding has substantially dropped making college less affordable for many americans. Oprah winfrey has taken heat from the people organizing protests against alleged police misconduct. Oprah said yesterday the protests lacked leadership and focus and the person in charge should make it clear what changes the group wants to see. On social media young organizers accused her of being an elitist who was out of touch. A College Student in england said her tight red dress saved her life. This dress right here. Zoe turner was in a terrible car accident three weeks ago on the way home from a party. Her cab collided with a cement truck. She suffered serious injuries including a fractured pelvis, fractured vertebra and broken sternum. She said the doctors told her that her hip hugging dress acted like a corset and held all those broken bones in place keeping them from piercing vital organs. Turner is home now from the hospital recovering. Why deice planes when Mother Nature can do that . Phoenix where its been unusually frigid recently, flights at Phoenix Sky Harbor International airport has been delayed. Officials are letting the planes sit in the sun instead of using deicing methods. A snowstorm led to this massive pileup on a New Hampshire highway today. Passengers were stranded along a slippery snow covered stretch of road with more than 35 cars reportedly involved. Always watching always tracking wusa9 first alert weather. Showers are on the way. How soon could they be here and could we expect freezing rain . If you live along the i81 corridor or up toward the mason dixon line, yes, freezing rain, sleet both likely, but in the immediate metro area well just see rain, but it will be a chilly day, on and off showers, a yellow alert day here in the first alert weather center. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam Reagan National airport still lit up for the holidays there. Its 39 degrees, partly cloudy, dew point 29, calm winds. The wind will pick up tomorrow night, but in the meantime not too much of a wind chill factor. It is a yellow alert day because of the rain. The rain will be enough. It will be sufficient at times to disrupted any commuting plans if you wanted to maybe head out and do some errands, maybe make some of those holiday returns. Its going to be tough to get around, especially until about midafternoon tomorrow with that rain falling. We will see icy spots in the mountains and some sleet possibly, especially at elevations above about 600 feet. That where is were looking at the highest likelihood of that icy precipitation. Later in the day saturday the showers will taper off and its going to start to turn breezy. It will be much milder sunday. The cold front of our approaching storm system will sweep through sunday and bring milder temperatures before the cooldown arrives. On satellite and radar you can see showers still streaming by south of us, but 9 futurecast is showing how this system will finally kind of crank up and make its northward turn heading toward us. By 8 00 the showers are falling throughout the metro. The darker green is an indication of steadier rainfalls and pink is an indication of freezing rain, maybe some sleet mixing in as well, but notice that is far to the west of even i81. Thats west of the divide. Then that freezing line descends further up to the north. It moves up into pennsylvania not affecting us in the immediate metro area whatsoever. We will have periods of steady, even heavier rain affecting us in the metro. As we head into the overnight hours, well start to taper off showers, especially by dinner time and later. The cold front of our approaching storm system starts to make its entrance heading into sunday. Here it comes. It could bring a couple rumbles of thunder as it makes its transition through, but notice the shower is a lot lighter. It will be breezy and mild sunday. Then winds switch around out of the north and northwest and brings much colder air as we head back to work and send kids back to school monday. Overnight tonight mostly cloudy, showers arriving by dawn for most of us in the immediate metro area. 26 to 34 northeast winds and only about 5 to 10 miles per hour. Tomorrow morning 30s and 40s with scattered showers, periods of heavier or steadier rain possible as well and in the afternoon the showers still lingering, a high between 40 and 45 degrees, so pretty much seasonably chilly, but notice the winds pick up out of the southeast 10 to 15. Sunday a few lingering showers, much milder, a high of 58 degrees. Then temperatures crash monday, only 38 with a partly cloudy sky and its going to be kind of blustery. In the first alert sevenday forecast a chance for a snow shower or some flurries tuesday and temperatures just keep getting colder. A high of only 32 wednesday, 30 degrees on thursday, oh, and high temperatures are going to be so chilly that our low temperatures are only going to be in teens a couple days. So a very downright frigid pattern moving in as we head into this workweek. I dont like wednesday and thursday. The only solace is theres no precipitation. Thats correct. It will be a cold dry pattern, so we wont have to shovel snow. Good news, its fun friday. Yea yea get ready to bust a gut like these ladies right here. New years resolutions are the theme. Weve also got an Oklahoma City shootout. Weve got d. C. Rising versus the kid now wusa9 game on sports with dave owens brought to you by xfinity. Are the wizards up and coming . Of course. Are they capable of withstanding an Oklahoma City thunderstorm . Im not certified. Thats a tough call. Wall versus durant, the stage set. Thats john wall, boy, wonder whats inside that beard . Maybe an alleyoop from the sideline. How about that . 12 dimes for wall. Wizards have the wall. Watch rasual butler. I call this a butler boom boom. Wizards trying to hold on. Good luck. Kevin durant from d. C. With the alleyoop. He had 34. Wizards fall 109102. Bradley beal afterwards not happy. We should have won the game plan honestly. Im not going to sugarcoat it. I just feel like we gave one away. I mean yeah, they made some tough shots, but we had the game in control. We had it in our hands. We had to take it. They took it from us. Tough loss. Ravens steelers playoff game tomorrow and trust me, ladies, its going to be like a steel cage match, two physical teams who dont like each other, playoff rivalry actually will be new for former maryland terp torrey smith. Good luck, team.