Have happened to his friend. Sala has Seven Brothers and sisters. He said his family is now living with relatives, after they left their home. Because it was just too dangerous. And hes recently learned his Old Neighborhood was bombed. All right, peg, thank you so much. We move onto another story. A district man is recovering from a beating he received from what police say may have been a hate crime. He was walk his dog near 13th and vermont avenue, in logan circle, when three men approached him. The victim tells police, one suspect said, hey, snowflake, this is what a Trump America look like. And then used an unfriendly term for gay people. He says, the attackers threw things at him and hit him in the head in the face, before taking off. In alexandria, crews have recovered the body of a man who fell off a boat. Someone called Alexandria Fire Department to say they saw a person fall from ninas standing, that say dinner cruise that operates out of oldtown. Were still waiting to hear how so you to go north to place like hagerstown to see snow accumulation. Snow did fall in other parts of our area, too. The ground just too warm for it to stick. More on that in just a moment. But first, lets head outside to the busiest man in show business. Topper shutt. The problem is, the freezing cold temperatures tonight. Does that mean were in for black ice. We have snow showers push through. Little flakes to the northwest. Those could have slick spots tonight. In fact, heres the radar over the last hour. And look at the blue there, those are the heaviest snow showers, pushing across and into southern maryland. You might remember, you had a better chance of seeing a dusting. Now, look at burkes. Pretty good snows. This is a bit of reduced visibility across much of fairfax county, and down toward 95. And temps in this area, old keen mill, are right around freezing. So take it. Someone who is trying to get home from there. This is pretty slow. Down 301, past la plata, as you go towards faulkner and Charlotte Hall. Pretty good snows there. Temperatures there around 33, 34. That will be a little slow, going down back into southern maryland. Live shot at national airport. Its a little lighter than it was. But it was snowing just a little bit. We have video. This was sent to us by steve, between the plains at 66, about 2 30, 3 00 today. Look at the visibility. Its way low in these snow showers. Much like sunday thunderstorms. They will be intense. Well come back and talk about how cold its going to stay tomorrow and another big change coming in store for the weekend. All right, top. We know you wish you could be somewhere to the north and east of us. Now, this is the snow we are just happy is not here. The fastmoving storm stranded cars on new yorks long island and new york city. That snow was falling about 3 inches an hour. The schools were closed. Massachusetts and maine could see the worst of all ends. And of course, driving is no fun. Pretty bad idea. Just ask this guy from worcester, who tried to help someone else who got stuck. We were leaving. And we wanted him turned around. Because we wanted him on the sidewalk. And hoo he he went up just to try to turn around. This is a sheet of ice. Pure ice, underneath the snow. Back in new york city, you see shing and people trying to walk in central park. They did not listen to the mayor request to stay home until the storm ends. But they did have time during the sneezeon that didnt produce too much snow. Frustrating day for travelers. More than 100 flights got canceled because of the winter storm. That, of course, included many in the northeast. But there are also a lot of cancellations to the south because of connecting flights. As you can imagine, some passengers were pretty frustrated. Wa we didnt know the flight came back to the hotel. Everything is cool. Get on the shuttle this morning. Came here and it was canceled. We just got a rental car and drove from boston down here to d. C. Tried to get away from the storm. And they had a flight available. Now were going to miami from d. C. At least his team went to the super bowl, right . Thats true. Not all bad. Most airlines, of course, were scheduling for when the weather clears up tomorrow. President trump is engaged in a war of wordings. And the nominee for the Supreme Court is stuck in the middle. The desk top comes after neil gorsich reportedly told Richard Blumenthal that the president s iccritism was both demoralizingizing and disheartening. President trump insists the judges comments were taken out of context. Is this his comments were misrepresented. And what you should do is ask senator blumenthal about his vietnam record this is way bigger than me. Former republican senator kelly ayotte, who has been escorting judge gorsich through capitol hill meetings confirms that the judge did make the comments as senator blue men thal said. Carly fiorina, getting back into politics. The fairfax resident says she may challenge fiorina next year. After an unsuccessful bid to unseat senator Barbara Boxer of california. She abandoned her president ial campaign, one year ago. Youll recall that she followed by joining senator ted cruz as his Vice President ial running mate. Tracking metro. And tonight, the agency, trying to urgently make you feel safe. New numbers say Violent Attacks are on the rise. Pete muntean found out, theres a new plan. Its a good thing but not good enough for the agency. Its a good reason why riders leaving the system. And youre about to hear from one of them. Deja norris. Ive had situations with people like grabbing me, touching me. So i just dont do it as much. She is exactly who metro is worried about. The assaults on customers went up in 2016. Police say there were 151 aggravated assaults. Up almost a third from the year before. Ive had situations where i felt like ive been herselfed on metro and things like that. I think its getting out of hand. Metro leadership stresses other crimes like thefts are dropping. But so is ridership. Any time we have any type of crime, its not anything we want. We would continue to work that as much as we can. Chief of metro says there has been improvement. Officers are now visible. Theyre also trying to move faster, blasting sp to other departments to make arrests. Just continue to focus on 2017. As long as i see that happening. Trying to make people feel better with that. Expect patrols to go up as the years go on. At metro police headquarters, pete muntean, wu a9. Rapes on the metro system went up to 6 in 2016. That is an increase. Metro says the number went up because reporting requirements changed. Were just learning about an outbreak of suspected norovirus in an Arlington County school. The Public Information office says 80 children at Oak Ridge Elementary School were either sent home or stayed home because of the stomach virus. Despite the health concerns, the school will be open tomorrow. Look for three suspects, connected to the death from bloomingdales. Sky 9 seen here last night, where the getaway car crashed. Three suspects bailed out of the vehicle. They got away. Police later determined that the car was stolen from another state. So a story about a bandit here who wore a mask and had a talent for hanging upside down. The target, bird seed. They tweeted out this picture of a raccoon, dangling from its legs. Can we see it . Id love to show it to you. Well just describe it to you. Its hanging from its legs, with the bird feeder out of reach. The tweet reads, no harm, no foul. Just got stuck. Thats kind of foul. Was just chilling. All right. Were just Getting Started to wusa 9news at 5 00. Are people who voted for President Trump happy with their decision . Were going to head back to one Maryland County, where his orsuppters came out in force during the election. An adviser to President Trump gets involved with the controversy over ivanka trumps clothing line you sounding off tonight. And why my pants are covered in puppy pee today. These adorable puppies, bringing our newsroom to a halt. Is that what you smell . Thats at least five or six of them. Yep. They are licking away stress in offices across our area. None of them did that to me, adam. Topper is back with our frigid temperatures, as well as our weekend warmup after the break. Z29kuz zstz y29kuy ysty trump adviser, Kellyanne Conway may have broke an ethics rule this morning. Conway encouraged viewers to go and buy ivampga trumps clothing today. Ivanka trumps clothing today. I hate shopping and im going to go get some on myself today so she even call today a free commercial. But federal employees are not allowed to use their office. Just yesterday, President Trump criticized nordstrom for dropping his daughters clothing line. Ditch signage, featuring products and mixed them in with other clothes on the racks. Like nordstrom they say it was a business decision and not political. And weve just learned that the federal Appeals Court that heard the travel ban appeal will make a ruling by close of business tonight. We have been watching this. Of course, the court is on the west coast. So that could mean later tonight. It is possible they will uphold the injunction, which means people from the seven mostly muslim countries could still travel to the United States. Or they could overturn it. Which means that ban would be back in place. Well be following it for you tonight. Might still be a while before people are able to fly into any of the spots in the northeast. Yeah. It was never our snow. Was it dreamy for you . Well, you know. Hes got this whole look of jealousy going on. It wasnt record setting. But it was a good solid noreaster, from fill to boston. But you know what . What . If we didnt have that snow. We wouldnt have had those cute doggies. Im trying out. Not working. Puppy love. Snow showers going through the metro area. A lot of folks sending in pictures. And heres one from Charlotte Hall. In fact, we just mentioned you guys at the top of the show. Theres proof of it. Boom. Josh owen sent in in. And again, snow showers intense. Dont last long. They can lead to the dusting. And can certainly reduce visibility. Melissa called in, visibility at a quarter mile. They intense. They will lot last long. 3degree guarantee. Gotta tell you. Theoretically, it was ducks shooting the barrel. We went 50 for the high. We talked about that. Dress for the 20s and 30s today. And boy, we had to. With 45 to 50mileanhour winds. Wind gusts at dulles was 50. 31 now. Thats as low as it has been right now. You saw it a little while ago. Went to break. Pretty good snow shower going on. Winds are still gusting to 37 miles an hour. This, i tweeted out. Because i got excited about is this. Its the temperature. 24hour temperature change graphic. You dont usually see this. 33 degrees colder now than it was this same time yesterday. Thats about as good as this graphic gets. 33 in charlottesville. 32 in philly. And 29 in new york. And it wasnt so much that we had warmer ground. We did. If we had a different storm track, we could have snow here as well. Were come back at 6 00 and explain what would have made it a good storm for us. Look at these streamers. Coming down the river. From northwest to southeast. And these are the snow showers. Theyre intense for a while. These are headed toward waldorf. Dark blue. That will reduce visibility for a quarter mile. Coming down west of waldorf. Youre going to have a pretty good snow shower to go through in the next 45 minutes. Evening snow showers ending. Bus stop temperatures. 16 to 32. Havent talked about those kinds of numbers for a while. Very cold friday. But the good news, tomorrow. And then milder saturday and warmer sunday with showers. But a pretty good tradeoff to get back into the upper 60s with showers in february. Thats not bad. Well, unless you want snow. Its bad. 9 30 tonight. Temperatures in the 20s. Still pretty good northwest winds. But they will subside a little bit after midnight. And by morning. Wining ceil teens well see teens. 24 as far south as fredericksburg. And 9 00, were still in the 20s. Clouds will move back in tomorrow and tomorrow night. But dont worry, your plans will be dry through saturday morning. Day planner goes like this. 20s to start. And these are downtown temps. Pretty cold. 32 by 11 00. And 37 by 1 00 p. M. Saturday, were right back to 60. Are you kidding me . Ooh, theres a good time to use a temperature change graphic, huh . 68 sunday. Warmer, a few more showers. Pretty good tradeoff, though the a little cooler on monday. Still pretty mild valentines day. Then temps go down a little bit. 40s wednesday. 42 next thursday. Perhaps an evening snow shower next thursday. Earlier today, we had about a dozen little dogs in our newsroom to help destress our coworkers. Oh. And it worked beautifully. As Nikki Burdine explains, its part of a program started by wolf trap Animal Rescue group. Are you feeling stressed out . Do you need a little extra love today . I have a solution. Puppy therapy. The employees come down. They hold them, cuddle them. Really, do you stress . I feel 400 better already. What about that deadline youre working on . Its at 11 00. I love it. Its so cute. And i feel his little heart beating so fast. Like were becoming one. It brings a lot of joy to me. Makes you forget about everything. Theyre just little fluff balls. Theyre all at risk of euthanasia in the south. We bring them down here. We put them in fosters and find them good s. Relaxing thing to walk into at work or at any stressful moment in life is just to be able to cuddle and hold these little guys. Such a stressful day. It really helps to just make everything okay. Like you unwind with a little puppy like this. Look at the little guy. Look at that face. He seems to be enjoying it. One of the most important things, when these puppies are this young is to get them socialized. Are you stressed out . No. No. I feel so much better now. Im supposed to be recording something right now. But my excuse is, im busy right now. Reporter how are filing right feeling right now about it . Pretty good, actually. Considering i just came from an insufferable news meeting. I know you came from a lot of demands,ait lot a lot of deadlines. But how are you feeling now . Loved. I think so im relaxed now. In the newsroom, im Nikki Burdine. Now back to you. And now youve got puppy you know what all over you. I knew better than to lay down. You dont smell so bad yet. That will have nothing to do with the puppies. Thank you for sharing. Wolf trap is holding these puppy therapy sessions to raise money for a permanent structure to save more dogs. Just tee that one up there for me. If youd like to donate, have puppies come to your office. How would you not want that. Look for the link on our wusa 9 mobile app. Google is joining forces with h m to test what theyre calling coding couture. Therethese are monitoring your lifestyle, your travel and restaurant choices, even the weather. And create personalized dress data. It spies on you . Basically. The cost for the design wear is 99. But what if it could design for you and you do figure out what to pick out. Creepy. Its the second time two federal mergers have been blocked by a court. The court rejected anthems bid to buy its rival, cigna. The court said the merger would lead to higher costs, less competition, and les innovation less innovation. Engaged couples now have a new venue, where they can register for the day. Dominoes. Its creating its own gift registry. You can treat the bride or groom to food. O a bachelor or bachelorette party. Comments on the social media post appear to give this a cheesy thumbs up. They say they wish it was offered at the time they got hitched. And guess what. Its National Pizza day today. You didnt know that . Why is your mouth open . Okay. Dominos. Two things that yeah. Something for everyone. Ill pass gentleman. Ill pass on making judgment. Thats what i meant to say. In todays heart love. Man, were all over the place. Were going to talk about strep. A strep threat infection can trigger rumattic fever rumattic fever. Rumattic fever. Heart health is my world. My father has been sick my entire life. Diagnosed with rumattic fever, which was a direct result of him not being able to get the medication he needed when he was sick because he was poor. He had been on cum din can you madin cumma din, had a heart attack. Three years ago, a doctor told my dad he needed immediate surgery or hes going he was going to die. That was an intense time. He went under two valves repair; hes alive, and hes my ironman, my hero. Thats what heart health means to me. Stephanies story there, certainly an emotional one. If you want to avoid some of the drama that comes with find out too late about health issues. You can check out a number of free screenings we have going on the list is on our wusa 9 app. Straight ahead. Youre running out of time to see the queen of soul in concert. Well tell you why. An arizona woman has been deported. Why shes the first person to be forced out of the u. S. As part of Donald Trumps crackdown on ilgal immigration. After the break. We revisited a Maryland County that voted overwhelming for trump in the president ial election. Were going to find out how happy they are with his first few weeks in offic fios is not cable. 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