in annapolis, same as owners go, look at this. the sky is pretty in pink for the cherry blossom opening ceremonies to commence tomorrow morning. 36 degrees in annapolis. it is chilly this morning. we are watching a little wintry weather. it is just going to be for areas northwest because temperatures are continuing to climb. cumberland, 68 corridor, there may be some pockets of freezing rain. as i put our storm trak and emotion, you will see a heads up in winchester around 7:20, what weather. mostly rain by then. frederick expected to see some precipitation. even in cumberland, the temperature is 34 degrees. pretty much everyone is above freezing. ice problems.

over to annapolis, we're seeing an icy mix. even around the district now, the pink coloring around the mix and as we look farther to the south that is some heavy rain up towards annapolis and that could be transitioning over to a heavy icy mix there. farther off to our west, all seeing snow right now. we will continue to watch this as we go through the morning, but the main concern will be hazardous travel because of what we have falling. now, speaking of travel let's take a look outside right now. melissa mollet, let's take a look -- no, we're going to talk more about the weather happening now. chuck and i will be back in just a bit. >>> thank you, sheena. >> i guess we should say welcome back winter. we have our team checking out all the conditions with you this morning. >> justin finch is live for us in leesburg, virginia. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that's right. we are right off of market street. just freshly plowed by the way. take a look at all the snow and ice that got kicked off the road and now, very heav

we're 63 now, everybody but well annapolis and it's hard for us annapolis this time of yeare o because they're getting the water involved in there and the bay comes across and it keeps them a little cool. dulles is 61 and martinsburg isu 69. up in fredericks 616789 theyer were up toic of * look, check this october, t raleigh is 80-degrees so springg is not too far away. we won't see 80 for a high. 54 for bekily, mr. 55 for columbus and louisville kentucky 65. forecast for this evening, it loose like it's going to stay mostly cloudy. by the time we get to tomorrow morning it looks like the windsk are going to starte kicking up little bit. the frontal system is coming through late tonight.late so that means the winds will be up. i think it looks like it's going to be pretty windy tomorrow. overnight low in town 40 degrees. suburbs itst in the will a little bit colder. frederick 36.fr close to freezing foration towna martinsburg close to 46. leonardtown 48. annapolis 43.anna it's going to be getting much,h, much colder tomorrow. say goodbye to the 60s. most of us will be in the 40s and th

sick degrees cooler but it feels colder with the chilly wind, 48 in frederick, 46 in baltimore, 48 in annapolis, across the northeast, these cold temperatures, 30 in boston, 38 in new york city. stuck in that chilly new england weather yesterday while we enjoyed 70's. 49 in washington, 57 in pittsburgh thanks so that flow off the owing, to get that cold air across the mountains and so you get the moisture, clouds form, areas of drizzle, temperature goes nowhere, they can't rise when you have that much moisture, satellite and radar showing extensive, not a lot of falling rain, it could be a little drizzle, are dreary. i'll show you that with your fox futurecast. 8:00 a.m. we're starting off sunday, a lot of clouds, a hooded jacket is best, we do have some is sprinkles that pop up in the afternoon hours, as we go into tonight, it stays cloudy, dreary monday morning, 7:00 a.m. areas of scattered showers, as the, we should have temperatures that are at least a little milder but we won

annapolis in 41. 40 in woodbridge. the temperatures are headed down. in the next few hours we drop in the metro to the mid-30's. the sunset at 6:03. we are coming up on the time a week from sunday when we return to daylight savings time where the sunset is an hour later. of course, sunrise same thing. sky will look different. get dark later. get light later a bit. it works out that spring march 20 will begin. the deal. snowshowers and flurries are ending. most of pennsylvania loaded with the snow squalls today. the pennsylvania police reporting white-out on the interstates but that has diminished as well. clear skies and the gusty winds. wind chills in the morning from the teens to the early 20's. then they will stay in the 20's hitting 30-degree mark. by saturday night and sunday morning the wind chills are in

that's the latest from annapolis. back to you. >>> new details now after a dramatic takedown in prince george's county. >>> police arrested a man after he ran into a movie theater and crawled into the duct work. wendy rieger has more. >> reporter: we have new clues about the suspect's criminal past and new video showing what he was allegedly doing the moments before that standoff with police. >>> also a surprising twist in a local carjacking. something very unusual was stolen from inside the car and there was a crucial clue left behind. that caused the whole thing to unravel. and some big news for the redskins. carol maloney will join us with the latest on gm scot mccloughan. he's been absent from the team the past few weeks, and, carol, sources are knows he's out, quote/unquote. all of this is coming up at a crucial time for all of the nfl teams. i will see you and chris will be joining me at 5:00. >> oh, stick around. >> can't wait for that. thanks, wendy. >>> so, amelia, we sure enjoyed the day. i guess this is the

in annapolis, chris gordan, news 4. >>> d.c. cherry blossoms could hit peak bloom in two weeks. national park says says between march 14th and march 17th. that's when 70% of the trees around the basin are blossoming. as tom sherwood shows us, the early bloom also means changes to the festival. >> the cherry blossom festival has been around for 90 years, the premier tourism event mere in the nation's capital. more than 1.5 million people are expected. and the most fun celebration of japan/u.s. anywhere in the world. [ applause ] . we are going to make this cherry blossom festival great again because it's already great. [ laughter ] >> the parks service announced warm weather would bring the blossoms unusually early. >> and the projected dates are march 14 to 17th, 2017. >> that's even before the month long festival was officially to begin days later. the festival planners scrambling to move up some events. >> okay. what does that mean for the festival this year? the festival will now start on march 15th and the presenting events and programs and tours will all continue as schedul

happened along annapolis road in lanham. >> take a look at your screen right now. you can see we're hoping that you're going to see some video of flames engulfing the entire house. right now there's no word if anyone was home at the time or if anyone was hurt. melanie alnwick is headed to that scene and we'll check in with her for the very late nest a few minutes. >>> following a developing story in the district where firefighters were searching for a missing person last seen in the potomac river near the key bridge. now, fire officials are now calling this a recovery operation. however, so far they have not been able to locate the missing person's body. now d.c. police say someone reported seeing a person in the water around 11:30 last night. right now there's no word on the identity of that person. >> in prince george's county r-police are investigating a deadly shooting at an apartment complex just a few miles away from the university f maryland. happened at the camden in college park. they say man was shot and another suffered a head injury following a fight on

annapolis is 53 chilly. and winchester 5 2 hagerstown 52 and frederick thunderstorm activity there. 54. headed to the upper 60s and low 70s for highs today. there's the forecast vlingt here's erin como with a look at traffic on tuesday morning. >> 5:07 looking at metro their service kicked in 5 a.m. and we're dealing with safe track surge 13. single train yellow line between braddock and huntington vandoren. you know the drill for this watch for delays and adjust your schedule aside from that metro rails are on time rights now and metro bus is shaping up to be quiet commute so far. i'll let you know if that changes and moving over to tuesday morning commute right now we're seeing a lot of green on the best way and gary mentioned, grab that umbrella and have patience rain moving in through through chantilly, dulles and rockville. let's take a live look outside and see how that impacted roads. this is 28 by air and space museum you can see road spray. traffic looking good. again with those slick spots we could

blue birds are eating in annapolis, montana. we will keep monitoring the pictures and the videos as they use the #abc7snow. they could end up right here on abc7 news and the online gallery that you can check out at wjla.com. back to you. q: jack frost isn't taking it easy on the cherry blossoms. how the freezing temperatures could impact a full bloom next. alison: two george mason wrestlers forged a bond well be prodders, shuckersers, and sniffers, [ inhales ] all giant produce is triple checked. farm, crate, and store. we're focusing on fresh... ...so you don't have to guess. my giant. alison: take a look. we are keeping a close eye on this. the bald eagle eggs near the m.p.d. police academy. they made it through the storm okay. one of the eggs could hatch any minute now. an hour ago one of our producers saw what could be a crack in the egg. and there is a dead fish in the nest. that could mean we'll see an eaglet soon. this is fantastic to play out live on the eagl

this is along the 9500 block of annapolis boulevard. despite what appeared to be a large fire we are told that the flames are now out. no word yet on a cause or if anyone was hurt. >>> and this morning new details about the murder of a 15-year-old boy. family members say the boy's name was dennis taylor. he was shot and killed saturday night in landover. this happened on the 2200 block of columbia place. investigators say the shooting was not random but they haven't said anything about a suspect or suspects. they may be looking for. >> meantime we are waiting to find out the i.d. of a man killed yesterday in an apartment complex in college park. happened yesterday afternoon at the camden in college park. they say a man was shot another man suffered a head injury following a fight on the third floor of the complex. >> a woman arrested three times in just six days for trying to make it onto the white house grounds is due in court today. the secret service arrested marcy anderson around 2:00 sunday morning. they say she climbed a fence at

this is the maryland state highway administration dome in annapolis. now, usually, when we do these things, you got to walk in mid march halfway into the building to get any salt. here we are, we're bearing down on st. patrick's day on friday. i can lay down here and you'd be hitting the salt. that's how much they have here. they're stocked ready to go. they've got plenty of supply. now, what they're not so sure they have though is the complete attention of marylanders. and here's why. you can look at this two ways. on the other hand you can say, well, everybody should be fresh. they should be ready. they shouldn't have anything keeping them in the way of paying attention to the storm. on the other hand, you can say well, they're rusty, nobody dealt with this issue. governor larry hogan of maryland said this standing about five feet from where we are, if anybody got that in their head, forget it. hogan said peo serious about this storm. >> some people are sort of lulleded into a false sense of security because we have this great 70 degree weather, i th

a chilly annapolis. near 80 in culpepper and frederic fredericksburg. tomorrow morning, you'll need a jacket, cool in the 50s, but then an umbrella in the morning and later in the afternoon. maybe some rain boots and a poncho tomorrow afternoon as some rain showers come through. there's only a small chance of an isolated storm this evening. mostly cloudy by 11:00 p.m., back down to the upper 50s and patchy, dense fog tomorrow morning for the morning commute and then a shower chance increases by 11:00 tomorrow morning as we climb into the 60s. so fog for the morning commute and showers likely for your lunch hour and then by 5:00 p.m. for the commute, wet roads, maybe thunderstorms coming through. temperatures in the low 70s. right now, getting one thundershower, maybe just a rain shower here in central faulk ear county. as we go to the evening hours, these patches of green are rain showers during the day on tuesday, there's the time stamp by noon time, still settled, then these areas you see popping up in the yellow and orange, isolated thunder showers c

and 26 culpeper and we've got 34 at annapolis and 32 fredericksburg and 28 degrees at couple better land. so the other factor are the wind chills as i mentioned and in d.c. and look at westminster feels like 17 and feels like 16 in hagerstown and 19 martinsburg and 18 winchester and this is great compared to what it will be by the time we get to tomorrow. it will be even worse. so just prepare yourselves accordingly. winds of course major factor. they've been gusting pretty much all night tonight. and they're going to continue toll and the thing is they're coming from northwest. that's a cold, chilledly wind. right now winds sustained 6 to 18 miles an hour overall. let's take a look at wind gusts for you. fwuingting now at 2 miles an hour dulles and we have 26 annapolis and 25 baltimore and they were a little stronger than that earlier, 3 mile an hour wind gusts d.c.. so some improvement this and tomorrow gusting all over again. so the colder air moving in behind this system and clipper moving its way out and so tonight once again we'll see clouds to clear skies a little later and we'll

and little cooler at baltimore at 56 and 5 degrees at annapolis and for tonight we're talking 50. mostly cloudy skies. and i can't rule ot a little patch didn't fog tonight or the early morning hours and a passing sprinkle is 30s i possible. much cooler sunday ahead for you though. we have 70s back on the 7 day forecast. i'll show you that in a little bit. matt. >> gwen, thank you. >>> breaking news to tell you about now from prince george county police are on the scene of a murder. it happened around 9:30 this evening on columbia place when officer arrived they found the victim already dead. investigators say someone shot him. tonight police are serving the neighborhood and trying to find any witnesses that may have seen what happened. we'll keep you updated on that one. meanwhile developing from nevada tonight the las vegas strip is back on tonight after a very tense and barracaded situation dime end and gunman that shot people on double derrek bus surrendered peacefully after hours of negotiations with police and investigators say the gunman shot and killed one person on the bu

in annapolis, cheryl conner, abc7 news. jonathan: virginia has approved a similar left lane bill that would fine $100 for driving slow in the passing lane but yet to take effect. michelle: now wild video caught on video. a cop gets more than he bargained for when he goes after a runaway cow. the officer is following the call from the cruiser. when the cow runs into the fence yard, the officer thinks he has her. the cow has other ideas. ramming through the fence as the officer runs out of the way. here it is again. slow motion. so far the cow is still on the run. jonathan: that is an angry cow. 10-week-old puppy is recovering after being found emaciate and near death in howard county. someone called 911 finding the puppy in a container friday afternoon. animal control took the puppy "eddie" to an emergency clinic. the vet said that eddie is now responding well to treatment and already received adoption requests. officials are looking for whoever left eddie in bad shape. well, in less than an hour rockville's mayor and city c

the rain is mostly south of fredericksburg or now east of annapolis. so it's quickly moving away and clearing the area. as far as the commute this morning expect some damp roads by 7:00 a.m. temperatures around 47 degrees so it's mild. by lunchtime close to 60. by the afternoon, dry roads, low to mid-60s, but colder air moves in tomorrow morning. let's check that with chuck. good morning. >> that's right. enjoy the relatively mild air for today because another shot of seriously cold air is coming our way as we get toward tomorrow night and thursday afternoon and thursday morning. could be the coldest of it. so for tomorrow,

naval academy in annapolis, maryland. now, annapolis right now experiences about 50 nuisance floods a year. under the best- case scscenario, in 30 years hee it could be as high as over 240, about, hihigh tides a year. if we have a highesest-emission scenario, it could be as high as 380 tides a year, many of those twice a day. we think, there's only 365 days in the year. pretty much, that's almost... you know, it's inundation at that pointnt. >> and in this country, we have encouraged people to build on coastal areas, barrier islands, and other high-risk areas that inevitably raise the risk level and the exposure, not only by property valueses, high-valued properties, b t the ct ofof repr r and coveveryboth f f the homeneners awellll athe puic infraructure at suorts s em. so think r rds and idges anthat kind thing.o it--thcost of imate change has to be factored in both in public and privivate insurance and public d private finanancial support for the structures that suppoport people's homes a and where they live. >> when f

earlier today, prince georges county state's attorney angela joined group of protesters in annapolis, also against the bill. the legislation would rollback a decision from the maryland court of appeals issued earlier this year. that decision says before judge's decide whether to order a cash bail for defendant, they should take into account the suspect's financial status, and whether he or she is a flight risk in danger to the community. >> all right, still following that breaking news right now, two construction workers stuck about ten stories up in the air, this is around 1st st. in southeast dc. again, you can see, the crew there and that green bucket truck trying to figure out a way to get these guys down. we're told construction workers are not in any danger. we'll keep an eye on t hopefully see them come down from there very, very soon. we will will be right back. >> well, march madness comes to ends in arizona where the ncaa final four games will be played. while fans are looking to have fun, locals are hoping to cash in on the game day frenzy. fox's steve craft explains. >> th

right now in prince george's county around bowie, over towards annapolis. what will is coming next. 36 degrees for a high temperature tomorrow, windy and cold tomorrow. windchills in the 20s all day. those winds gusting 20-30 miles per hour tomorrow. then we move into early next week. i want to show you monday. we're tracking two systems is. one down here off the coast of jacksonville. another one making its way our way. we've got the cold air in place, and you need that for a snowstorm. this area of low pressure, the stronger one actually moving all of its energy right off the coast. we see that energy shift all the time here. that's what helps to create a nor'easter. could be a rain/snow line issue right along i-95. but it does look like now from d.c. all the way up towards boston as we make our way into monday night and tuesday. a major nor'easter, a high impact storm for everyone in our area. here's what we know about the storm. most likely, monday night into tuesday, all models now have at least some snow in er snow-covered roads for sure. the rain/sno

in annapolis, i'm kevin lewis, abc7 news. kimberly: tonight we know why the statue of liberty went dark for an hour last night casting a ghostly image on new york harbor. the national park service says a light controller wasn't properly reset after someone changed out faulty equipment. more outages are expected in coming weeks when a new emergency jonathan: it looks like we have to wait longer to see the famed cherry blossoms at the national mall in all their glory. they are beautiful. the national park service is pushing back the expected peak bloom to march 19-22. it was forecast to start as soon as next tuesday but the coming cold snap the reason for this delay. kimberly: doug joins us now. what do you think about that? doug: they can't pick the exact day. they say between 19 and 22. we first saw 14th. jonathan: that would be the first day ever. doug: they may have to change it again. it's weather dependent. let's start with our coverage. the cherry blossoms love these temperatures. 6 o's at 6:00. 65 downtown. 63 in reston

only 48 in frederick. 51 in warrenton. 41 in annapolis. we go through the evening we hang on to the clear skies. the temperatures will drop in the 30's. but they will hold in 30's overnight in the area. not like the teens and the low 20's we saw this morning. so a big improvement. the southerly winds take over. high pressure gave us cold air and the sunshine. warm front on the way. computer model show us with only clouds. we talk about that. we'll look at the next ten days in five minutes. larry: talk to you soon. tonight a hunt for a killer after an artist was found tied to a chair and stabbed to death in northwest washington. corrina mehiel's body found tuesday. tonight her car is still missing. d.c. bureau chief sam ford joins us live with the la sam? sam: we are in northwest washington not far from george washington university where we spoke with a mel chin, the visiting professor who brought mehiel here to help with the corcoran art gallery. i appears he was one of the last people to see herself alive. >> we had dinner sunday night. s

in annapolis, i'm tracee wilkins, news4. >>> an unusual case of domestic violence this evening. a man from northern virginia is in jail, accused of killing his future stepfather. police in front royal arrested david hoil jr last night, he shot warren ramsey multiple times inside a house he shared with his mother. hoil is charged with first-degree murder. >>> a muslim couple from fairfax county is reeling tonight after coming home from a weekend trip to f with a religious slur and ransacked. it's believed whomever did this, broke in through the patio door. thousands of dollars in cash and property also taken. the couple says the worst part was finding their koran torn to pieces, and written on the wall, an expletive directed at their muslim faith. they asked that just their first names be used. >> we were in complete shock. it was like, it's a dream. we're just going to open our eyes and it's all going to go away. but, you know, especially when we saw that written on the wall and the koran torn to pieces on the floor, and my paintings, you know, they were just torn apart and on t

annapolis 3 rain kind of one the storm system just to east. that's heavy rain mixing with sleep sleet in parts of prince george country and anne arrundel getting to annapolis and messy mum of sleet even freezing rain and snow up and down i 95 and then remains all heavy snow off north and west. and again reported in frederick" and 6" hagerstown. we can add a couple more inches of snow. as the system pushes off to area mere i'll show to you better. south of ocean city. here's area of low pressure. that starts to push away from us. we'll drag enough cold air in i think most region transitions back for a time to speak to here later this morning and we could given spot of rain right now we could have additional accumulations of inch or two in in many spots future cast 8:30. way want to show you noon perhaps snow for everybody for a period of time and wind down this afternoon reduced to snow showers and flurries late this afternoon. that's good news. winter weather add voosry for washington lost winter storm warnings. still expecting additional snow

there was reaction to this latest indictment in annapolis. >> the legal process will work its way out and the most we can do is make certain we're making our citizens know that that's not representative of all of the leadership in our county. >> reporter: we asked vaughn for comment. he did not have any comment. his attorney said everything that needs to be said will be said inside of the greenbelt courthouse. if he is convicted, he's looking at 35 years in prison and the possibility of forfeiture of his home and some other property that the feds believe he obtained by illegal means. reporting live in greenbelt, i'm tracee wilkins. back to you in the stu >>> it has been a day of rallies, marches, protests as people here and across the country mark a day without a woman, a movement of support of women's rights. let's go live to news 4's meagan fitzgerald. she has been following the demonstrations since this morning. are they happy with the turnout and what they accomplished? >> reporter: wendy, they are. they tell us they're pleased with the turnout. just a couple minutes ago we watche

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