Its chilly. Mid30s at 5 00. 34 at 6 00. 33 by 7 00. The story tonight a couple things to talk about. One is the possibility of a little snow tonight. Well break that down hourbyhour but a very, very cold forecast. To me that is a bigger story. Well talk about it in a few minutes. Michelle thank you. Now is a good time to download the free stormwatch7 app to keep track of the changing forecast all night long. Jonathan a d. C. Teacher has been flying united for ten years. She has gold elite status. A big deal. But tonight she wants an apology from the airline. Q mccray to her about why and he joins us live from National Airport with what happened. Q, what happened to her seat . Q i spoke to the woman, i had a long conversation with her. I went to her phone. I also got off the phone with United Airlines. I have both sides of the story. Mrs. Simon last week was on her way f she was about to board a flight in houston and she handed over her first class boarding pass the agent told her there is no record of her being on this plane. So they sent her to the gate desk. At that point she said it didnt go well for her at all. Plain and simple she said she was offered all may tunnel. Take 500 voucher or dont get on the plane. She took the voucher, got on the plane and sat in couch. She found out from a passenger next to her the person who got her first class seat was texas congresswoman Sheila Jackson lee who simon had no idea who she was. After the flight to d. C. She got online and sent a message to United Airlines and contacted the c. E. O. , mr. Nunez with united directly. She wants one thing. An apology. I used united for 90 of my this kind of behavior does not go unchecked. This is completely unethical. Its contra its not the way they train. It is humiliating to the passengers. We are valued customers. Q this is what i found out from united. United says when mrs. Simon got to houston and found out her flight was delayed to d. C. She somehow on the app inadvertently canceled her last segment home. So she wasnt found in the records and the congresswoman was able to upgrade to her first class seat. That is their explanation for all of this. Miss Sheila Jackson lee is also upset about the way she has been treated in all of this. She talked about racism. Well talk about that more in the 5 00 newscast. Until then that is the latest. Im michelle developing now an entire family is questioned after a deadly shooting in the driveway. This happened in hyattsville. That is where scott taylor is live. What is the latest . A family arrived back. Someone inside the house heard something. Then shots rang out. A man was shot and killed in the driveway. It all went down here in hyattsville, maryland, around 2 00 in the morning. A family inside sleeping. Including the familys babysitter who tells friends two men were outside and appeared to be breaking into a truck parked in the driveway. Someone inside the home grabbed a gun from the second floor, shots were fired. One man wearing a mask in this driveway was struck and most neighbors wont talk but one who doesnt want to be identified said has been a rash of vehicle breakins on this street. They break in my cars. I have called the police and all that stuff. Scott i knocked on the door and talked to a Family Member and they said we dont want to talk right now. We are respecting that. But coming up at 5 00, i will tell you what is in the house when the shooting happened. Scott taylor, abc7 news. Nancy new details on a friday night shooting that killed an 11yearold girl. Michelle police in Prince Georges County says it appears that the child was shot by an underage Family Member. They are not led what led to the shooting but say adults were in the home at the time. The girls name has not been released. Nancy police in montgomery h other thiswo brothers morning on bellfrey road in paramedics took one to the hospital but they dont believe the injuries are life threatening. No word if they made an arrest. Jonathan there are new developments to share as police are putting together what happened before a reston couple was shot and killed last friday. Police say they are planning to have a 17yearold charged. The family tells us he was the boyfriend of the couples daughter. Richard reeve live in reston with new details in this case. Rich . Richard yeah, john, such a heartbreaking story. Take a look behind me. You can see a memorial out front. A family killed and its apparently by the daughters boyfriend. There are signs that say hate has no home. They were called to the house on friday and they found flickr buckley kuhnfricker they tally wounded and thefatally wounded and the 17yearold with a selfinglicked gunshot. He started dating the daughter and the mother found retweets of messages attributed to the boyfriend praising hitler and calling for white revolution. The girlfriends grandmother tells us the shooting happened after the 16yearold let the boy in the house. The parents confronted him and told him to leave. He shot both of them before turning the gun on himself. The reason im speaking out is because of the nazi evil that was behind this. Without the nazi evil this never would have happened. Last week they staged an intervention to talk to the girl. She said its a good idea to keep away from the boy is now in critical condition. He is likely to be formally charged with two counts of murder. Coming up at 5 00, we will hear back rushing to the scene of the terrible homicide. Reporting live, richard reeve, abc7 news. Jonathan horrible. All right, rich. Thanks. Abc7 was there as the officers arrested the man Police Believe hit a horse and buggy with his truck. The crash happened last night in st. Marys county. The driver suffered serious injuries. The horse was killed in the crash. They took the officers in custody and he did return to the scene. Michelle three people dead and a fourth injured after a car crash in la plata. Police tell us that it happened south of hawthorne road before 1 00 in the morning. A man and his 15yearold son helped pull the driver from the car after it burst into flames but they couldnt get to the other people inside. Popular antiques market left in ashes. Tom roussey is live for us in alexandria where the neighbors are waiting to owner of the mt. Vernon antique center will rebuild. Tom . Tom that is right. Although im told even if that owner does rebuild its never going to be the same as it was. This is really sad. This has stood here a long time. Since the 1940s. It first started as an antique center in the early 1960s. You can see what is next of it. Two stories tonight. The entire thing has been reduced to rubble. This is what it looks like last night. You will see why it was reduced to rubble. When our photographer got on the scene. It was engulfed in fire. When they determinedded no one was inside the walls started to collapsing. Investigators are on the scene and they will determine what the cause is. In fact they just cleared the minutes ago. A lot of vendors who respected space, about 30 of them with a shot in the building. And also longtime customers who were very upset. They have some of the most awesome stuff in the store. Very unique stuff. Im really going to miss it. I was up here last week. I do my Christmas Shopping here. Little things. Its a shame. This place was an institution in the heyday. Celebrities shopped here. Long history, off route 1 in the mt. Vernon area in Fairfax County. Well have more about the history at 5 00. But right now as far as the cars and the Fire Department not ready to say yet. They said they had to sift around the rubble to even begin the investigation. Reporting live in the mount vernon area of Fairfax County im tom roussey, abc7 news. Jonathan firefighters were here and making sure that Everybody Knows about the Smoke Detector law that takes place on monday. That is when you have to have the kind that lasts for ten years even if you dont change the batteries. A lot of times people forget to change the batteries. People would get too busy and forget and then unplug them. Dont do that. The person sleeping inside the house burning if chevy chase was able to get out alive after the Smoke Detector went off and woke them up and alerted them to the fire. Nancy still ahead michelle days after the president signed the tax bill into law, what people are lining up in our area to do before the new year. Nancy plus the rush to return a lot of gifts you dont want and where they end up. Jonathan you may dream of a White Christmas but probably within limits. The impact of three feet of snow in one day. Well take you there up n jonathan well, we have a storm watch Winter Weather alert. These are two scenes. This treacherous traveling. This is in massachusetts. Zero visibility going down the road. Snow is covering part of the northwest, midwest, northeast tonight. Look at this. Almost h this is erie, pennsylvania. That is a house over here underneath the snow. They got record day of snow on christmas day. Karen travers reports that the cold is not going away anytime soon. It was a White Christmas. And then some. A new snow record in pennsylvania. 19 inches of the lake effect snow falling overnight in erie. A grand total of 53 inches over the past 30 hours. The biggest twoday total ever in the keystone state. Portland, oregon, with a White Christmas. Seattle, holiday Winter Wonderland for first time in nearly a decade. In the midwest bone chilling temperatures making headlines. This image in duluth, minnesota, showing steam rising over lake superior. The mild water s colliding with the arctic air. Minus 21 degrees with a wind chill of minus 44. For people in chicago, this was just too cold for even traditional winter activities. The girls want to go ice skating. We tried. But its really cold. In boston the heavy snow temporarily shut down the runways at logan international. Later a nervewrecking landing. Everything is fine. And another jetliner skidding off the roadway. Epic cold blast across the country. Dangerous wind chills as low as minus 50 in the northern plains. There is no warmup in sight. Polar air will continue to spill in the eastern u. S. Wednesday morning. Karen travers, abc news, blue bell, pennsylvania. Bill yikes that is chilly. To me that is the big story in the coming days how cold it is for the end of the year to the beginning next year. A better story to tell talking about other places. Minus 50 in the midwest. That is okay. We showed the video from erie. I want to take it deeper. Check this out. Christmas day snowfall in erie, p. A. 34 inches of snow. Think about that. 34 inches. Three feet of snow. The old record for the day was 8. 1. Shattered. Snow blowers for christmas. Snowiest day erie, pennsylvania, ever had. Now the snowiest december ever recorded for erie. Total snow for them is 73 inches. They have the snow we have had since 2013. So if you take all the big storms of 2013, five years ago, add it what they received. Jonathan but erie needed that. They need to get on the headline chart. Bill im sure that is what the residents are saying and what they are telling friends and family. 37 is our temperature. We have a beautiful sunset shaping up for us. You folks are at the freezing mark at 32. These are one of the warmer days well have as the cold air will spill in the region. 18 in columbus now. That is not the wind chill factor. Temperatures will be cold enough tonight as we go through. There is a weak weather system, a little bit of blue on the map. The timing around the area. Could potential fall in line. Tonight at 8 00. Watch us at 11 00. Snow over the mountains. By overnight and little sliver could put snow down. Watch by the time we get to the morning time its gone. In our area as you are well aware if we get a little snow it could cause problems on the road. I dont see any snow in the daytime. In the peak hours of the day. A little in the morning could cause big problems in the commute. Temperatures are down near the upper 20s. Low 30s. The hourbyhour tonight. We will stay up to 30, 32 tomorrow. Temperatures are chilly. Its cold and on the breezy side. What we are watching is the potential for snow early tomorrow morning. We are dry the next few days. Saturday is the day to keep an eye on for accumulating snow. Nancy speaking of the weather, coming up, of devastating National Disaster isnt over yet. What part of the world is getting slammed now. Projected 22 times from 22 jobs. Nancy but first what the rejection inspired this man to do to help himself an others in the s nancy staying positive and continuing to work are two of our partner at circa introduce us to a local Company Getting a big boost from john legend to help out. I got rejected 22 times from 22 jobs so i decided to start a business. This is an exoffender who is helping return citizens get back to society. I decided to change and do something positive for myself. I didnt want to go back to the negativity. He decided to change his life. One of the struggles is finding somewhere to live and find a job. Build a sense of community. I was thinking of giving up on everything and going back to the streets. He encouraged me stay positive and stay working. Futures, a venture funded by john legend Organization Free america partnered with bank of america. Its part of it because we are in the community. And hire the returning citizens. We want to decrease recidivism in the d. C. Area. They work with a number of businesses. They also work with the clean team to keep d. C. Clean. I have a lot of respect for the men and women laboring and religiously working to make the neighborhood the way it looks and its a lot of hard work. We recognize that and we realize that. Nancy using his platform to make a difference in so many lives. Nancy absolutely. That is fantastic. Jonathan coming up for us at 4 00 the president hits the links and his twitter account. What he is typing nathan im nathan baca in rockville. I will show Montgomery County homeowners what they need to do to stay hundreds or thousands save hundreds or thousands on the property taxes. Nancy coming up tonight at 5 00 a young shoplifter caught stealing a teddy bear in the stocking but those items werent for him. How two officers showed the teen unexpected kin announcer youre watching abc7 news at 4 00. On your side. Michelle President Trump signed the tax reform bill on friday but today reports of people lining up at the Fairfax Government center to prepay next years property taxes. In Montgomery County lawmakers cleared the way for residents to do the same. 7 on your side nathan baca headaches a look at whether it makes sense for you. Homeowners could save thousands on the property tax but you have to act quick. The deadline is this saturday. They voted 71 to allow prepayment of the property taxes because the new tax law that Congress Passed caps the deduction of people can take off property taxes. So the Council Voted to help homeowners out to see the older level. How much wi in the order of hundreds of dollars. Certainly not tens of dollars. It seems to be well worth the time to do it if you can. The county staff worked to rewrite the tax code over the holidays. I think its unprecedented in terms of the Council Holding a special meeting the day after christmas to address taxpayers needs. But one said it could mean less money for charity relying on the grant. The homeless is looking for ways to prepare to reduce the amount of support it might get by the 2 next year. That is significant effects. Homeowners listening to the Montgomery County tax experts still had many questions unanswered. I think it will be a nearly impossible task. Montgomery county is posting stepbystep instructions on the but they dont offer tax advice. If you need that, consult the accountant or an attorney. Nancy they are looking recount led to a tie and the democrats want the state board of elections to delay the name drawn to decide a winner until its resolved. If yancey win, republicans have oneseat majority. If the democrat Shelly Simonds wins there will be a 50 50 split. Jonathan a typhoon weakening as its trekking across the western part of the gulf of thailand. Look at the mess it has left behind. This storm is blamedded for 200 People Killed in the philippines. Area. The storms are expected to dissipate in the coming hours. Over there they call them typhoons. Here we call them hurricanes. This is powerful. Bill not a good situation. Its bad news. For us what we are looking at, our big story is the cold temperatures. Jonathan it will stick around for a while. Bill it will. We will send 2017 and go to 2018 with cold temperatures. Jonathan did you say end 2013 . Nancy bill i dont know. Jonathan im bad when i write a check and use 2016. But that takes us back. We are going into 2018 if i remember right. Bill ill catch up here soon, i promise i will. Let me show you what is happening in 2008. 36 in leesburg. 37 in d. C. Outside now is chilly. 32 in gaithersburg. 30 in hagerstown. 33 at 7 00. 32 by 10 00. 31 by 1 00. Heading to the area. We are talking the possibility of a little snowfall. Measures well less than an inch. Some of it on the roads could pose a problem driving around tomorrow morning. Break it down and then we look at how cold it will get and how long it lasts in a few minutes. Back to you. Nancy new information this afternoon about the deadly fire at an apartment building. Michelle this was in south korea last thursday. 29 people died in that eightstory building. The owner and manager are under arrest. They had sprinklers that did not work. Jonathan the olympic torch made its way through south korea. It was set up near the northern most part of south korea. The visit included 17mile train ride through the region. The 2018 Winter Olympics do begin in february. Nancy the governor of joined President T