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WUSA Wusa 9 News At 7pm February 19, 2015

Night. Windchills by friday morning will be 10 below to 25 degrees below. And then a wintry mix, were tracking that on saturday and saturday night. Right now it looks like its going to start as snow and then go to sleet and freezing rain. Eventually we think it will go to rain on sunday. Look at these windchills. 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow, feels like its below 0 everywhere. 2 below downtown, 7 below in laplata. By 6 00 p. M. , feels like its 11 below 0. This is route 50 near the beltway. Tracking the snow in maryland all night. Im reporting from the dash board camera in my mobile news room. Lets take a look at this guys car right here. I hope he doesnt mind. Im going to write a 9 on his windshield. Thats about all she wrote. Maybe a quarter inch of snow in that blast of snow we got. Let me show you a video tape. I was on 270 north. Right at 6 00, here comes the snow. Its not lasting more than 10 or 15 minutes and it just wasnt quite enough to overwhelm the residual assault on the road. It was 32 degrees. The salt was able to melt it. Just another taste and blast of winter as it moved through. There have been salt trucks out and loaded throughout the evening in the maryland suburbs here in montgomery county. They are spreading salt tonight because it did leave enough moisture on the ground and with the temperatures theyre talking about, theyre looking forward to freezing tonight. They are treating the roads after this blast this evening. From the mobile news room, back to you. Thank you, scott. Good thing that car did not have an alarm on it. You are correct. That would have been quite comical. You can track the heavy bursts of snow throughout the night and any time with the wusa app. Its going to be extremely cold for kids who have to head to school. Thats why were going on a bit earlier for you tomorrow. The morning crew will get started around 4 00 a. M. To give you the latest temps. The museum underneath the ford theatre shut down tonight because of a busted pipe that caused the basement to flood. It did not damage the artifacts in the museum. And all this cold air weve been dealing with caused a pipe to break at montgomery blare hire. A wall of ice is on display at the school. The busted water line supplied the plants thats up there on the student green house on the roof. Unclear how many of the plants have been damaged. After School Activities have been canceled in all month gemmery county schools today. Pretty much the entire eastern half of this country is going to get blasted by the arctic air were talking about. Even in the deep south. Folks in atlanta are going to see 16 degrees tomorrow morning. Utility crews are racing against the clock trying to get the power back on to homes and businesses in nashville, charlotte and a few other cities that got coated with ice earlier this week. They do suspect he was under the influence of alcohol. Witnesses saw David Rodriguez drives erratically through a white oak neighborhood before he hit and killed vanessa wilson. She was waiting for a bus. New allegations tonight against mike gardner. Hes already been challenger withdraw molesting young girls. Now prosecutors say he tried to hire a hitman to kill witnesses in the case. Peggy fox explains who brought this allegation to light. Its shocking. Reporter during a routine pretrial motion, prosecutors disclosed new stunning allegations against mike gardner. They said say jail house informant told them gardner tried to hire a hitman to kill the three falls church girls hes accused of molesting. Theyre being terrorized over and over again. Now with the new allegations, its beyond belief. Reporter what do you think about the allegations today that mike gardner was trying to hire someone to kill your child and the other victims in this case . It is just so unbelievable. Reporter gardners wife, Robin Gardner substituted a hand out for an answer. Prosecutors are taking him seriously and saying a number of people are targeted. One of the things the informant told us is mr. Gardner had made death threats. Reporter mike gardners Attorney Says his client completely denies these new allegations and calls the informant a professional snitch. Peggy fox, wuas9. Police have a warning for parents tonight and it all stems from vincent hill who was charged with solicitation of a minor. He was sending dirty photos and messages using the kik messenger app. Police warn by using the kik app, you can send messages and pictures to other users without a phone number attached meaning parents cant track it. New information on jesse matthew. His trial for murder charges in virginia is set to get started in late june and is expected to last three weeks. He is charged with abduction of hannah graham. She disappeared after a night out with friends last september. Tonight, dc police are looking for the men who car jacked a vehicle with a child inside. This one happened last night in the 3700 block of Martin Luther king jr. Avenue. The woman says he was car jacked by two men with a gun. The men are still out there on the run. A dc couple charged with leaving their toddlers locked in a cold car will be back in march. They covered their faces while leaving court today. Theyre charged with 2nd degree cruelty to children. They left their kids locked in a car for about an hour while they went to a wine tasting event. These are loving, dedicated, caring parents. Thats what the case will show and well talk about it in court. If found guilty, the couple could face a fine of up to 10,000 up to 10 years in jail. Family and friends of 17 year old Claire Knight said goodbye to their loved one. She was killed in a hadon collision with a school bus last week. Even those who didnt know the High School Senior were touched by how her community is remember her. Reporter inside fredericks International Community church. It was greet music, people talking about claire. I was impressed by all the young people and how wonderfully they spoke. Reporter a middletown and frederick Area Community came in droves to say goodbye to the High School Senior who died one week ago today. While police are still investigating the fatal crash, family and friends tell us knights life was one lost too soon. Everyone should try to live their life you never know when the end is. Be thankful for every moment you have and love your life. Reporter more than a half hour after the Funeral Services ended, there were still cars leaving the parking lot here. Claires loss is a great hole in the frederick area. Stephanie ramirez, wusa 9 news. There is an account set up to cover funeral costs it. Has just over 58,000. Take another live look outside. Snow is making its way out of the metro area. Some of the coldest weve seen in decades. Toppers back in a bit with two dogs survived the cold thanks to firefighters who took them in for the night. They were found wandering around the streets trying to get inside a business. Reporter mom and pop are doing just fine here at the green belt animal shelter. They are adjusting quite well after being rescued from the cold last night, thanks to kitty garner. That was my main concern. Reporter garner is a lifelong volunteer and president of ladiys auxillary at the fire department. She and her son were driving down road avenue when she spotted the dogs pawing at the door to the jiffy lube for shelter. The puppy whined all the way down the road. Reporter the dogs made themselves right at home. Hes been responding to mommy. Reporter the shelter checked them out and they were found to be in good health. There are plenty of people on the waiting list to adopt these dogs. And in case you dont get your chance, there are plenty of other dogs. That last dog looked overjoyed there, didnt he . Firefighters brought the dogs to the shelter because its what they call a nokill location. The owners have 5 days to pick up the dogs or someone on the waiting list is going to be very happy. The season of lent is now underway. As is tradition on ash wednesday, pope francis placed ashes on foreheads dead at the vatican. Construction managers announced today they finished phase one of the repairs but will need millions more for phase two. Up into the scaffolding hanging 100 feet above the floor. The earthquake shook mortar loose from the ceiling. We have a special epoxy. They can epoxy the piece back in and you see that little hole there . They drilled and inserted a stainless steel pin to hold it. This is a good example of being able to salvage a piece. The ceiling scaffold will come down now since the interior work is finished. Most of the work outside will have to wait until they get money. While the National Cathedral was awaiting reconstruction, there were tears over destruction in prince georges county. The power of the bulldozer. Sharon baker taking the controls to help bring down a blighted building. A new Arts District is going to go up in its place. Apartments, retail shops on the list of things to get built. Snow squalls almost done. Look at low temps tonight. These are not windchills. Low of 7, leesburg. Well talk about just how low its going to go, if were going to break record lows. And youll be surprised how low windchills will be by friday morning. Can your dog do this . Walk on his front paws, do a skate board, jump rope . Mario and bella can do all of that. Meet them know you can keep your financial big picture under control. Know you can see how much you have to spend and whether you should transfer funds. Know you can easily keep track of what youre putting away. And know youre budgeted for the great escape. Thanks to virtual wallet by pnc. This is a yellow alert day. Now, heres wusa 9s first alert weather. Besides the snow moving through, we have dangerous temps on the way. Cold tonight and thats just a preview to tomorrow night. Ill show you what the windchills will be by friday morning. Take a live look outside. We made it above freezing today, 34. Were at 30 right now. The winds will pick up and remain from a west northwest direction and they will be 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour overnight. Heres the radar over the last couple of hours. About to crossover the bay. Some residual snow showers still at route 50. These are pretty heavy. See the blue, thats heavy activity. Shaded areas of white are snow showers, but keying in on the heavy activity. Snow shower just moved through a indianapolis. Well move back in a little more. This is good south of crownsville and it has moved through crofton. Everything pushing due east at about 23 Miles Per Hour. Bus stop temperatures, 6 to 16. Windchills are going to be below 0 tomorrow. Dress for that. Thursday night, were going to be below 0 with straight temperatures in the burbs. So record lows to beat by friday morning. These are overnight lows tomorrow. 8 downtown. Were forecasting 5. Baltimore 5, were forecasting 2. And dulles is minus 2, were forecasting 4 below. Dulles was 2 above this morning. A record low on this date was 14 below, also set in 1979. That was quite a year for record lows. Lets talk about the windchill. And this is going to be a future cast for you if you will. So by noon tomorrow, it feels like its below 0 everywhere. Downtown, 3 below. By 6 00 p. M. , it gets worse. Now it feels like its in the double digits below 0. Were talking a windchill of 5 below. With by 6 00 a. M. , on friday, 23 below windchill ingaithersburg. Thats frost bite material in about 28 minutes. Thats dangerous stuff. The winds will subside a little bit by friday late morning and afternoon. Tonight, snow showers hitting by 9 00. Partly cloudy, windy, very cold. 6 to 16 and winds at west northwest 15 to 25. Were not going to have the high winds we had behind the last front. 15 at 11 00 and 16 at 1 00. Few clouds by afternoon. We could see a snow shower or flurry tomorrow. Bitterly cold. Yellow alert. Yellow alert friday, bitterly cold, 19. Saturday, were tracking snow, which will probably turn into sleet and freezing rain overnight. Thats also a yellow alert. That changes to rain on sunday. It make take a while. And then cold again on monday, tuesday, wednesday, but dry. We will be back right after this. No one in my family has gone past high school. Through the at T Aspire Initiative i met my mentor, elizabeth. She believes in me. She pushes me to do better in school and in life. Because of the at T Aspire Initiative, im the firstfamily to ever go to college. At t employees are mentoring students in communities across america. You can change a life. Become a mentor. Thats going to do it for our news at 7 00. Were coming back at 11 00 everybody deserves 73 fares. Because wedding season can get expensive. Book your low fare now at southwest. Com. Could bruce jenner face manslaughter charges in the crash that left a woman dead . See the blue car speeding. We talk to the man behind this recreation. She how closely it matches an account from the scene. Then Bobbi Kristinas family meets with the doctors at the hospital. An update on her condition. Plus tara reid today, how her transformation from 90s it girl to tabloid target changed everything. A prisoner in your house. Is that how you feel . 100 . Go out and get in trouble. We do lunch with westminsters best in show. And the music of empire, how the hit is cashing in on the hot sounds. And the story behind the singers turned actors. Like a church bus and it was this music was legit. Now, entertainment tonight. We love entertaining people. A shocking new animation that surfaced illustrating what might have happened during the fatal crash that placed bruce jenner at the center of investigation. Was he responsible for the horrible accident . And does this video accurately represent what might appear in images captured by mta surveillance cameras mounted on a bus at the scene of he collision . Tonights top story. Does this video get us closer to the truth . The irony about the recreational videos ive seen trials where each side the defense and the prosecution has their own and theyre completely different. This video could get us closer to the truth if done thoroughly and with the expertise required. This controversial video posted on youtube has gone viral. As we look through the accident and as we look through the scene, we see the blue car

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