loudoun country and back through west require vir. not getting a lot of rain with this. it could be briefly heavy. just ground is so saturated additional rainfall and snow melt localized flooding possible northwest of d.c. and heavier showers weaken across the district. temperatures 48 washington and 43 gaithersburg and 47 dulles. mild and comfortable. future cast puts showers in northern virginia by mid-morning in district by noon and then this later this afternoon moving on to eastern shore. much lighter but showers will continue throughout this evening and after 10:00 we may clear out. forecast for today. 55, 11 a.m., mostly cloudy, rain arrives by into. it's approaching by then and showers, temperatures falling back to low 50s through the afternoon. and that's a look at today. i'll have the 7 day forecast with another chance for heavy rain in it. that's still ahead. annie. >> thanks so much, caityln. d.c. police are investigating an act of vandalism directed at their property. saturday, police found eight patrol cars near the 7 pl district station with tires slashed

loudoun county canceled the schools today and the snow fell in leesburg turned to a wet slushy met. in fairfax county they canceled all activities after 6:15 tonight because of the concern of a refreeze. so now is the time to sign up for the school closing text alert. alison: primary day comes as a blizzard wraps up in england but south of the granite state. scott thuman is live in manchester with the latest. scott: we are in front of the facility that donald trump will be appearing tonight. he says he will be making a victory speech. this is all about the turnout. they are possibly looking at the record numbers. they are expecting half a million new hampshire voters. the candidates have to be careful. they can have a tough time in iowa and get away with it. a bad performance in iowa and followup disappointment in new hampshire would spell real trouble. whether it's bush against trump -- >> i am the only one taking him on. >> with tweet calling the leading candidate loser and a liar, trump punching back -- >> i am the only one taking on donald trump. >> or seemingly everyone attacki

video that expanded from loudoun county and baltimore shows all that snow. this is the good snowman-making snow. the highest totals were north and west. we got a trace at reagan national, that was it. dulles airport .7, look at union town, 7 inches of snow. we'll show you a few other snow totals and new market, maryland. 4.7. gaithersburg just under 2 inches. temperatures right now are our big concern. 33 in washington but well below freezing north and west. and we'll send it back inside to sue and she'll show us how cold it's going to be early tomorrow morning and i think all of us, even if we just saw the rain are concerned about the freeze for tomorrow morning. >> it does look dry behind you on wisconsin avenue. >> i think the wind this afternoon and this evening has helped dry a lot of pavement. >> i hope that's the case for a lot of places but as you mentioned where you have heavier snow you have more liquid up to our north and we're going to be heading down to 26 in frederick, 25 in hagerstown and even 28 here in the district. so again, patchy ice. wat

we are following a developing story in loudoun county. police are investigating a deadly crash involving a backhoe. police say a woman rear-ended the backhoe on route 7 near leesburg the woman died at the scene. the backhoe operator was not hurt. police say the road was slick at the time of the accident. for more on the state of the roads in virginia we go live now to sarah simmons who is in fairfax. sarah? >> reporter: right now out here it is rain for the most part. we've seen it all today. we've seen rain, we saw the freezing rain, back to rain. we are off i-66 right now where, for the most part, traveling seems to be moving pretty the cars seem to be moving pretty well out here. it's really the secondary and side roads where you're seeing a lot of this snow and what we're dealing with. this is the layer of ice that you're going to find here on the ground. you can hear it when you walk just crunching underneath you. this is what we're seeing and dealing with on the secondary road. we were up in reston a bit earlier in a shopping center

this is of a rainbow out in loudoun county. yes, in loudoun county just before the sun set there. gary memory sending this one into us. i'm sure a lot of you, as this line he can tended from northern maryland all the way down to the south, southern maryland, down into areas of virginia, probably a lot of rainbows seen today across the area. and, of course, now we're getting reports of not just some wind damage here i hail but also reports of some scattered power outages as well down to our south around areas of southern maryland with the first line that came through. >> and flooding too. and we just heard that pinging there, and that pinging tells us there's a warning. that warning was a flood warning. the flood warning for the district for southeastern montgomery county, central fairfax county, southeastern prince william county, stafford county, the city of false church, city of alexandria, arlington county and the city of fairfax. a flood warning that's in effect, up to one inch of rain is occurring in a short amount of time. i want to take you to shomari stone. shomari, do you

loudoun couldn't gli require vir and fairfax. just be on the lookout here you're under a flood watch later today. all right. 64. good news up side of it is nice surge of warm air 64 daytime high and record high 65. possible record high temperatures on february 3. thank you tucker. >> my pleasure. >> say good morning to area and look at traffic. >> good morning light rain coming down and we're starting to see delays and if you take metro grab umbrella and watch for switch problem west falls church and no longer single tracking onth line but you need to be cautious for residual delays. all others on or close to schedule. closure between north equip and north 'roid street that's from earlier water main break. we'll look live outside and show you exactly what you're up against we'll get to that in a second and there's construction crews working at that water main break. aside 66 inbound you see shine from rain we're slow 234 to september areville give your september areville give yourself 15 to 20 extra minutes now no crash roz repor

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here we are at 7:00, loudoun, fauquier counties. by 9:00 p.m. in the district. arlington, alexandria, southern maryland as well. overnight the showers move out of the area. so some good news for that monday morning commute. looking dry. i'll have another look at the next seven days in ten minutes. >>> it's a lot cleaner on the international space station right now. nasa posted a video this morning showing astronauts releasing 1.5 tons of trash into space. the capsule formerly held supplies like food and clothes for the station it will reenter earth's atmosphere tomorrow where it will then all burn away. >>> a possible end to an awkward divorce requirement some lawmakers call ridiculous. right now people often have to swear in court that they have not spent the night with their a witness to back up their claim if they want to get a divorce. a new bill in maryland would put an end to those requirements. the capital gazette reports that the measure drew little opposition last week in the house of delegates. >>> the texas boy known as the affluenza teen heads back t

now republican presidential candidate marco rubio going to be in loudoun county today. he's hosting a rally at patrick henry college. it will be at 1:00 this afternoon. this is one of four stops for rubio. he's making his way through the commonwealth ahead of what is super tuesday. and "meet the press" moderator chuck todd going to join us in about an hour from now. he will bring down the results heading in to super tuesday. here is who he has coming up. bernie sanders, john kasich and ted cruz, all of that at 10:30 right after "news 4 today." >>> tornadoes left major damage across parts of virginia. take a look at that where thousands say they did not get a warning and what is being done to fix lindsey graham emer. >>> and olympics starting in less than six months and there is major concern about sewage in the water. for a cup of coffee just because you're a woman. so why does congress think it's ok that women get paid 20% less than a man for doing the same job? i'll fight for pay equity, to protect planned parenthood, choice for women, and expand paid and family leave

reporting live in loudoun county and ashburn, i'm tom roussey, abc7 news. jonathan: nice vacation. thanks. it will still be a while before the snow is gone. what a difference a week makes. check this out. this is a time lapse outside the studio. alex our photographer put it together. we started fimming on the 23rd. wednesday we have more coming along. right now we have a dead stuffed rodent. michelle: special guest. jonathan: you don't like punxsutawney phil. doug: a friend of mine had a pet groundhog and it was his pet. i brought it to work to say i don't have any ans no my -- animosity toward the forecast. we'll see what he says tomorrow morning. this guy's name is west virginia bill. the numbers are 40's with 56 at 11:00 in fredericksburg. they turn cooler as the front and the rain moved through the area. we get through the night and the temperatures will fall more once the skies clear across the region. as far as the numbers go, they are not changing much in the next hour or two. the rain will get out of here and skies clear. i think we have a change of the weather pattern. sli

fairfax and loudoun county schools on a two hour delay. schools in fauquier county are opening one hour late. >> west virginia, berkeley, jefferson and morgan county schools all on a two hour delay today. also this is not weather related, but chancellor middle and high school in spotsylvania county closed because of a power outage. >> let's check in with chuck bell to find out what kind of day we'll have weather-wise. >>> grab your umbrella on the way out the door. won't need it first thing this morning, but by lunchtime, raindrops will be coming on in, so the weather will impact your plans for later on this afternoon. but we're off to a mild and try start. temperatures in the upper 40s to near 50 out the door this morning. rain likely this afternoon up through early this evening. a little cooler tomorrow morning, but there are cooler days coming. more about that coming up. >>> water main break in silver spring, it is a massive hole. university boulevard, one eastbound lane getting by between carl avenka between carroll avenue and piney br

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jeff: virginia state police special agent chris mclure and loudoun county sheriff detectives steve shoshay have been working the cold case for years. >> i talk to ronnie every day. give me something. let me know who did it. jeff: evidence remained thin in a crime from so long ago. ronnie's last known boyfriend in 1982 who the family did not know remains a person of interest. the age progression sketch gives an idea of what he might look like today. >> we have had numerous people on the radar. we still, there are still some people we haven't eliminated along the line we have come up with the person that did it. >> you hope we get a call saying we got him. >> for bill and heather the hope will not go away. >> i don't think we are looking for justice. looking for closure. >> until the day the phone rings with an answer. >> in fairfax county, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. >> have you have ever any nervous regarding the murder information regarding the murder call chris mcclure at 703-803-2655. jonathan: here in the united states, we got our biggest raises since june. that means we are spending mor

we have heavy snow band set up through northern loudoun county and parts of montgomery county and towards mount arie and western howard count why a frederick and westminster and that's where heaviest snow has been early and it has transitioned to all snow in city and even down in oxon hill transitioned for time. i think it's still maybe snowing down in oxon hill. you can see kind of southern and eastern reaches of the snow now right at the beltway. so down in charles county you have light rain showers and out towards annapolis still rain snow mix at this hour. so it was clipper system coming through. and this is very poorly disorganized you can see this is nothing like our blizzard we have snow shower activity in virginia and secondary low desk off the coast. this slows additional moisture back on us. we'll keep show in forecast and rain snow mix in forecast much of the day today. i don't think it will be intense. it will be light snow out there much of the day. 36 washington. notice everybody remains above freezing and 32 frederick. that's where the worst of conditions are setting up her

fairfax county and loudoun county schools opening two hours late. fauquier county on a one hour delay. berkeley, jefferson and morgan county schools all on a two hour delay. >> and two schools are closed in spotsylvania county. chancellor middle and high schools have power outages. more delays scrolling at the bottom of your screen. >>> time for weather and traffic on the 1s. chuck bell, what do the kids need to get ready for? >> have your umbrella ready for later on today. raindrops likely before you come back home from work and school. we're dry for now, temperatures are in the mild 40s already. but raindrops out across central west virginia are about 7 hours away. that puts them in here right about lunch team or sooner there after. nothing to worry about here immediately. so if you have things to do now and you're home before 11:00 or 12:00, you'll probably be already. temperatures upper 40s to near 50. average high this type of year is 44. so already in plus territory. here's the way the next 24 hours look. cloudy, 49 at 7:00 a.m. rain likely ab

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they include fairfax, loudoun, pins william and spotsylvania counties. school administrators say they are closing because of the large crowds they are expecting. leon: stay with abc7 news for continuing coverage for super tuesday. we have a team of reporters spread out across virginia as the results come in. for those keeping track at home maryland primary is scheduled for april 26 and we will be all over that as well. alison: this is a delicate topic. you may want to be careful asking if an older woman may be the newborn's grandmother? because births to women in their last 15 years. >> we are going to have like baby and menopause crashing down on each other. alison: our consumer investigator kimberly suiters finds out how many of the women in their 50's are getting pregnant naturally and how many are paying for pregnancy. pregnant and pushing 50. tune in sunday night at 11:00 after the oscars. doug: i have a feel for that. my twins are 19. i remember they were babies and toddlers and in strollers. people say i watch you on t every night. are these your

the presidential campaign comes to loudoun county next week. i'll have the story coming up. >>> i'm adam tuss along i-66 in arlington. how would you like to pay $5, $6, $7, $8, $9 a day for the pleasure of sitting in traffic on i-66? now we know 66 is going to be widened and tols are going to be beltway, more details are coming into focus like the possibility of paying $9 one way during rush hour for sitting in 66. coming up on news4 at 5:00, i'll tell you much more about the plans, what we found out, and how are they going to widen the road when there's really not much space there? back to you. >> thank you, adam. >>> she's married to one of the most well-known fugitives in the world. now she's telling her side of the story for the very first time. what the wife of mexican drug lord el chapo is revealing about their marriage. >>> and storm team4 has a busy few days ahead of them. we're tracking changes heading our way. >>> stores are heeding the recommendation to stop selling hover boards. toys "r" us is no longer selling the razor hover track

and loudoun county public schools will operate on a two hour delay. fauquier county schools are on a one-hour delay. devon lucie has a look at the forecast. hard to believe the warm weather was not enough to melt it away. devon: snow much -- so much snow on the ground it will take a while. the belfort furniture weather center, a live look at national harbor. the high temperatures today well above average, 60's northern virginia, 57 d.c. very warm for this time of year. 56 fredericksburg. tomorrow at the bus stop, you do not have to worry about slick spots. by recess time, 58 in the afternoon. cooling down tuesday, with another round of rain. very mild wednesday. the complete forecast from the belfort furniture weather center in a few minutes. that forecast is important to kids heading back to school tomorrow. and fairfax county schools are operating on a two hour delay because some areas still have snow-covered sidewalks. the yield or vice snow plow company says getting the sidewalks cleared and giving the people in place to walk is his top priority.

the same goes for loudoun schools, alexanderia city schools february 5th and march 4 as snow make up days. a one-hour delay and jefferson county will open 2 hours late. >>> new at 11:00, firefighters grateful that people in this neighborhood cleared know from a fire high drant. their work helped firefighters battle there house fire: it started after a drier overheated in the basement. smoke alarms started going off and two adults and a child were anyone to make it out of the house. if you use the third street tunnel in the district, d-dot says you may want to consider usings an alternate route. they're beginning a new phase of construction starting tomorrow. that means detours on 395 new york avenue and the surrounding streets. crews will install heavy steel beams and sure up the tunnel. for the last year and a half, the news 4 iteam has investigated kplants of liquor control. those complaints include theft and kplants about retailers about problems with the delivery system. the iteam has learned that the director has resigned. the county spokesperson tells us the county is searching

a look outside from all the, virginia in loudoun county. we had a few snow showers in flurries blowing around briefly. not surprising with the gusty flow of cold wind out of the west. , andw the clouds break up the cloud cover will stay pushing off to the east and southeast. 39 at reagan national as we speak, 36 in frederick, baltimore is at 38. spotse of the warmer reported in fredericksburg. we have had wind gusts as high as 35 miles per hour in washington, 33 miles per hour in leesburg, so it is going to be augusta afternoon and that will drive the windchill temperatures down a little bit. the air temperatures will will make it feel colder as we head through the afternoon and evening hours. futurecast, we can check out the feels-like temperature's. right now chills are running in that early 20's. late this afternoon, it is going to stay on the chilly side. late tonight, early tomorrow morning, chills will be in the 20's. the wind direction will start to change. that is how we will get a little bit of a warm-up into the upper 40's tomorro

just search loudoun school. they may start a kickstarter campaign to raise $100,000 as they try to restore the interior and exterior. >>> do you pay your bills automatically? one news4 viewer thought he was only to be told by his gas company that he was months behind. how a tip to our consumer team is bringing some change. >>> the storm may be passed, but it's still one of those afternoons where strong winds could cause some problems. storm team4 is tracking the return of cold air and your weekend first at 4. >>> winter's back. subfreezing temperatures with wind early tomorrow morning. i'll take you hour by hour and show you how cold it will feel friday. >>> the stakes are high as the gop presidential candidates get ready to share the stage again. >> yeah. tonight's showdown could help decide the republican the university of houston with a closer look at tonight's debate. what are you seeing, jay? >> reporter: hey there, chris, pat. a lot of confusion and perhaps even some desperation is what we're seeing here.

stephen: the loudoun county investigators are scouring this area looking for this who disappeared once before nine years ago. but i just spoke with one of his keef employees who says this time around he had no reason to run. a young businessman living the lush life in northern virginia. shady business dealings came to light, he vanished. >> i don't think he ran away again. beyond that i don't know what happened. >> he was captured and got 12 years for bilking banks out of tens of millions of dollars. in prison he discovered a talent for getting people to open up and he testified against torres who killed a sailor in arlington in 2009. he provided testimony against a man who supported islamic terrorist. he got out early and appeared to get his life back on track. until wednesday afternoon. >> he is consistent on his phone. when he is not there for work or there answerinth calls from his family, there is a major concern. >> no sign of his car. phone -- >> there is no sign of anything. no activity. no card activity or phone activity. >> he was last seen in capitol heights at a business he

virginia state police say that three of them were fatal, .ncluding one in loudoun county jay korff continues team coverage in arlington tonight. shape,t part are in good but check out this side street, parking lots, the sidewalks are extremely treacherous and dangerous, and we have come across a number of accidents. first responders were busy in northern virginia monday night. rain, and with sleet, freezing temperatures turned wet roadways into slick ones. the driver of this car lost control on route seven in reston, ending up sideways and injured. on the fairfax county parkway, another single vehicle crash. try to keep pace, but there is only so much that can be done. in centreville, a sedan and box truck collided, forcing the closure of the road for hours. somebody got hurt at this location as well. the virginia department of tran stay home this day and night, a request often ignored. trucks that vdot salt are out and about and will be out and about through the night into the overnight to keep the streets clear and say. live in arlington, jay korff, abc 7 news. leon: thank you, and watch y

they got deep snow pack in loudoun county and upper montgomery county. and brookeville, that road was closed also from high water. all in all, bad. but we told you there was a little flooding. we were under a flood watch. in fact, that continues until 6:00 a.m. shower and fog lingers tonight. bus stop temperature in the 40s. primarily dry. breezy and still nice. clouds will linger east of town. and a chilly finish to the week. clouds will still linger, east of town, thursday and friday. 10:00 tonight, showers all but gone into southern maryland. a lot of clouds come over. let's hope these temp comes to fruition. 58 on future cast at 10. 53 in leesburg. by morning, not that crazy cold. upper 40s downtown. 43, gaithersburg. 44 also in fairfax and dale city. and by 9:00 a.m., still about 45. in bowie, under partly cloudy skies, and about 47 in fredericksburg. there will be a mix of clouds and sun tomorrow. but temperatures still getting very close to 50 degrees. the breeze will make it feela little cooler than that. on the day planner, 50 to start. but then

. >>> to virginia, where school is canceled in loudoun county, where schools saw several inches of snow. this video from the percival and round hill areas. by midafternoon, roads were just wet. snow may be accumulating on the grassy areas. the wusa 9news app. when there is bad weather on the hovizon. you can -- horizon. you can stay with the touch of your thumb. a free download for your apple and android devices the. >>> new information on the school volunteer, charged with producing child pornography. parents say kids have been talking about deontae caraway's activities, long before he was arrested on saturday. stephanie is live in glen arden with more on this part of the story. >> reporter: lesli, i spoke with a parent today, and she told me these kids knew these things were going on since 2004, when deontae cara way was first hired at the school. she said kids would talk about this in the hallways and school administrators should have known. >> because i have a 7-year-old. and i also have an 11-year-old. and like i asked my son, did any sexual activities happen to him? >> reporter: t

. >> all the way back to loudoun county. >> exactly. >> even though the weather is long over and we have had rainbow pictures from you, the flooding is still going on. >> right, with that out of the nowhere neck -- i'm going to loop this here and i imagine we'll have more severe thunderstorm warnings for calvert and st. mary, and probably not st. charles but it will be a while you have to deal with this. >> here is the latest. the tornado watch trimmed. no tornado warnings except for the northern neck. we'll watch carefully the watch to the south. and for now, i think we're all right but remember if you're under a tornado warning, you need to have a plan and need to know where to go. seconds back to you guys. >> they sure do, flash flooding, trees down, power out, traffic lights flashing here and there, and a house fire and another collapse. it's been a very busy night. >> and our crews are fanned out across the district, maryland, and virginia looking out for the damage, and we have tens of thousands of dominion reporting power outages but it does seem for a moment as you just heard fro

transportation put out information saying they're already starting to see ice on the roads in places like loudoun county and they expect that to head our way. so things expected to get worse and this is why, take a look. you can see there is 3-4 inches of snow on the ground from that storm that hit us this morning. well, with the rain that's expected, it's going to melt a lot of this. i mean, it is fluffy powder that's going to melt right on to these roads and then that probably likely will stick and turn into ice. and that's the concern. that's what the virginia department of transportation is dealing with. they tell me they plan to keep 3,000 to 4,000 trucks on duty in northern virginia through the night treating the roads as best they can. but the problem is, just like what we've heard in the district in maryland, they can likely only get to primary roads. so your neighborhoods definitely going to be a little tricky if you can make a night of it and stay in, that's probably going to be your best idea. reporting live in arlington, i'll send it back to you guys in the studio. >> all right, alex.

here is the timing on loudoun county in. brunswick at 5:11. gaithersburg at about 6:04. a lot of lightning with this. let's put the skits on there see if we see any rotation out of this. we haven't seen much rotation and we didn't expect it from the northern part of the storm. the reason is because of the cooler air, but we do have some rotation here. you can see some early rotation down toward the south, but this is the storm right here making its way up. let's go back down to the tornado warning. you see it there for culpeper county, fauquier, orange, spotsylvania and stafford counties until 5:15. it's an area we'll continue to watch very, very closely. severe thunderstorm warnings, i expect many of those to be issued as we move through the rest of the evening. tornado warnings, they will be a little bit less frequent but let's go down to the south again and show that tornado warning, veronica. this one towards portions of southern fauquier county -- >> i have left the skits on too. the skits a this little skit you're seeing, that's an early indicator -- there's an ear