making news in america this morning, more missed warning signs in the florida school shooting. new documents reveal what administrators at the suspect's previous school were concerned about just before he was transferred. this as classmates prepare to travel to the capitol today pushing for gun control and stoneman douglas high school sets a date to re-open. weather alert for millions. just in time for this morning's commute. snow and ice, a dangerous combo in the nation's midsection, as much of the rest of the country prepares for springtime warmth. at the olympics, the ice dancers steal the show. results this morning for the american brother and sister team, plus the world record just broken. also this morning, a possible blood test that could detect autism earlier. new research on the one

thing you should have each day to live past 90. and a popular children's cereal getting a magical addition. good tuesday morning to you all. we begin with the florida school shooting, survivors leading the charge against gun violence. >> students from stoneman douglas high school are taking their demands for tougher gun control directly to state lawmakers today. authorities also are now saying the suspect had access to more guns than previously reported. abc's arlette saenz begins our coverage from washington. good morning, arlette. >> reporter: kendis and diane, good morning. the survivors of the florida high school shooting are loading onto buses and heading to the state's capitol to push for new gun laws. less than a week after the massacre, this isn't an ordinary school shooting. >> jamie guttenberg, 14 years old. >> reporter: the names of the 17 students and teachers killed at marjory stoneman douglas

rang out at candlelight vigils across florida. a day of remembrance and activism. [ chanting "enough is enough" ] >> reporter: from a grassroots rally in los angeles -- >> shame on you. >> reporter: to a lie-in protest at the white house. one teen holding a sign, am i next? >> this is a student movement. >> reporter: today 100 stoneman douglas students take their crusade to florida's capital. >> hopefully we can talk to representatives and get our word across to everyone. >> reporter: the teenagers will push lawmakers to enact tougher gun laws. we are resilient to make a change because, there's so much grief in this community and my friends and i are turning our grief into political action. >> reporter: a new abc news/"washington post" poll found most think stricter gun laws would have prevented the parkland shooting. 77% think better mental health treatment would have kept it from happening. yesterday the suspected shooter, nikolas cruz, appeared in court,

head bowed, his eyes fixed to the ground. a source familiar with the investigation tells abc news cruz had access to ten guns, seven which he legally purchased including an ak-47 and the ar-15 allegedly used in the massacre. that same abc news/"washington post" poll found the country is still split on whether assault weapons should be banned. diane and kendis. >> all right, that's arlette saenz for us live from washington. thanks, arlette. and we're also learning new details about what administrators at the accused shooter's previous school knew about him. >> our miami station wplg has uncovered the school board's list of concerns. new documents show school administrators were aware of his obsession with guns. papers indicate the school board was aware that he was preoccupied with wars, terrorism and people getting killed saying the teen was fascinated by guns and felt he needed one to feel safe in the world. >> yeah, everything everybody seems know, we didn't know. >> reporter: the couple who took the suspect into their home last

november after his mother died of the flu says they knew he had guns, but they say they were locked away. >> before he moved in, one of the stipulations is he had to get a gun safe, and we got a gun safe on the way back from lantana from moving his stuff to our house. >> he didn't have free access. >> no, i thought i had the only key to the gun safe. >> reporter: it's also been revealed before moving in with the couple, florida's department of children and families visited the suspect's home in 2016 to investigate allegations he was being victimized by his mother. after an investigation that department says they found no indications of abuse or neglect. records indicate he was taking medication, had depression, adhd and autism. >> never should have happened and, again, if we had known any of the things that we are hearing, we're learning a lot about all of this just the same as everybody else. you know, and we feel betrayed as well and just shocked. >> reporter: in the meantime, classes at stoneman douglas high will be back in session next week sending out this robocall

with the announcement. >> i know that many of us are at different phases of the grieving process, but a huge part of the healing process involves bringing our eagle family back together. our goal is to resume classes on a modified schedule on tuesday, february 27th. >> and some faculty members will return to the school this friday. in the meantime, our miami station reports those documents from the accused shooter's previous school show he was dependent on psychiatric medication, and despite showing some progress, he continued to struggle in social situations before he was transferred to stoneman douglas. and president trump has now endorsed mitt romney's senate campaign in utah. the two have traded barbs over the years. trump once called romney a dope and romney criticized trump during the campaign calling him a phony, but that's apparently water under the bridge now. the president on twitter last night offered his full support saying romney will be a great senator. the battleground state of pennsylvania may be feeling a little blue this morning. a court ordered redrawing of the

state's congressional map has now been released. this is the old map. look at that carefully, and now this is the new one, court drawn and you can see analysts say it could help democrats pick up several seats now that typically blue cities are back together inside certain districts that were previously split. republicans are expected to appeal the new map. and a volcanic eruption has caused flight warnings to be ramped up to their highest level in indonesia. an ash cloud rose nearly 24,000 feet over the island of sumatra on monday shutting down at least one airport and sending thousands running from the area. thankfully no injuries reported. reports say visibility on the ground was as low as 20 feet. well, back in this country time now for a slick commute this morning for parts of the upper midwest thanks to a large and dangerous storm system bringing snow and ice. more than 20 states are facing severe weather. let's get a closer look at your forecast for this tuesday. good morning.

we are bracing for significant snowfall, a bit of ice and possibly floods. locally 18 inches of snow in wyoming throughout portions of south dakota and we're looking at 4 to 8 in other areas towards the great lakes region. this low pressure system will swing to the north and then we brace for an icy mix that will affect iowa going into wisconsin then on the underside of this soaking rain possibly causing flooding that will affect chicago, st. louis, little rock, dallas, down to san antonio. i'm accuweather meteorologist paul williams. still ahead -- traveling from washington, d.c. to new york city in less than a half hour. we'll explain why it's one step closer to possible. and also ahead, neighbors on alert after this cougar gets its paws on the window of a house. and later, hundreds of kfcs are forced to close because of a cr

police in the wisconsin neighborhood are warning people to stay alert after someone spotted a cougar in their front yard. you can see the big cat walk right up to the window. looks like it almost knocks there. that was at a house in brookfield, and the people living there say they didn't know the cougar had visited until they saw it on their surveillance video camera. the fbi joined the search for a 5-year-old boy in wichita, kansas, missing since saturday. his stepmother says she last saw lucas hernandez in his bedroom before she fell asleep. but right now police say there's no evidence lucas was actually abducted. family members have reportedly raised concerns about the boy's welfare in the past. police searched two nearby parks on monday. the postal service is now offering a $50,000 reward for information on the unsolved shooting death of a dallas postal worker.

police say tony mosby was found shot in his mail truck on interstate 30. the truck was riddled with bullets. no arrests have been made. co-workers have described mosby as quiet and easy to talk to. a long awaited trial in minneapolis gets under way pitting the state of minnesota against the manufacturer 3m. the state wants the company to pay $5 billion to help clean up the environment after dumping chemicals for decades. the pollutants are blamed for posing a health threat to people as well as wildlife, but 3m insists it did nothing wrong or illegal. a company headed by elon musk has received a permit to begin preliminary work on a tunnel between new york and washington for his hyperloop. musk says the travel time between the two cities in the hyperloop would be just 29 minutes. a similar tunnel planned between las vegas and los angeles. in this case the permit allows for building preparations at just a single site in washington. and video from the seafood section of a supermarket caught

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upcoming season. it will limit the number of times a manager or player can visit the pitching mound to six visits per game. commercial breaks will be also slightly shorter this season. >> that's still quite a bit. and at the winter games a third athlete has been caught up in a doping scandal. officials say a men's hockey player from slovenia was found positive for a drug that opens up airways to the lungs. >> now for other developments alex stone joins us. >> reporter: kendis and diane, good morning. overnight stellar performances and bronze medals for the u.s. the shibutani siblings alex and maia showcasing excellent technique as they skated to a coldplay song but their score of 192.59 was only good enough for a bronze. americans madison hubbell and zachary donohue finished fourth just out of medal contention and the gold going to canadians scott moir and tessa virtue making them the first career

figure skates with five olympic medals. in the halfpipe brita sigourney took the bronze barely winning over annalisa drew and maddie bowman fell on all three of her runs missing out for her chance for another medal. troy terry's three assists and ryan donato's goal helped the u.s. men's hockey team earned their way to the olympic quarterfinals with a 5-1 win against slovakia. next up for the americans the czech republic. after finishing sixth in the super-g, lindsey vonn at 33 favored to win the gold medal in the downhill tuesday night u.s. time but mikaela shiffrin who already won gold in the giant slalom will not join vonn. she has decided to focus on preparing for the super combined event set for early thursday. some athletes finishing within hundredths of a second. in two-man bobsled it was so close it ended in a tie, both germany and canada taking the gold. kendis, diane. >> you don't often see a tie for a gold medal, all right.

alex stone for us in pyeongchang, thanks, alex. and now let's take a look at that medal count, shall we? norway is still leading the way both overall and in gold medals. 28 overall medals. >> by far, germany pulls in to number two. the united states tied for fifth overall. getting there. >> slowly but surely? >> question mark? so, the boyfriend of u.s. gold medal skier mikaela shiffrin is heading home because he doesn't quite have that olympic spirit. >> french alpine skier mathieu faivre was kicked off the squad after saying he was only there to race for himself. the comments came after he finished seventh in the giant slalom. hmm. doesn't take much. >> nope. up next in "the pulse" the secret to living past 90. and also ahead, the shortage that's forcing kfc to close hundreds of restaurants. and later, the wedding nightmare. the bride who had to be rescued from an elevator. and the wolf huffed and puffed...

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good morning. it's 4:27. put on an extra blanket last night, close the windows, i can't blame you. waking up to frigid temperatures. >> absolutely. mike, what a way to go back to work on a tuesday. >> good morning. that will wake you up. here is the latest. it goes until 9:00. the frost advisory, the light blues where temperatures could get down to 30 or 35 so there could be scattered frost, the darker color, which is most of us, is a freeze warning. that means temperatures down to 25 and the hard freeze for solano and lake county means temperatures could get down to 22 degrees so keep everything covered until at least 9:00. here are your current temperatures, and we're freezing cold in fairfield, napa, santa rosa, clear lake, ukiah, half moon bay. that's unusual. danville, livermore, and everybody else 34 in hayward to san francisco at about 42.

take a look at your 12-hour accuweather planner. more snow showers in the forecast. sue? we're pretty quiet. the first day back to work for a lot of folks. emeryville and a stream of headlights on 80 through berkeley and on into the mcarthur maze. let's check over to the san mateo bridge where traffic is also very light if you have to be up at 4:28, at least you're moving at the limit around the bay area at this point. sue, thank you. the coldest weather we have seen this season definitely has the bay area adding some extra layers this morning. >> literally and figuratively. actual layers of clothing and layers of services for those in need when we have a freeze warning. reporter matt keller live for us in san jose. matt? >> reporter: good morning, reggie and natasha. it feels colder than yesterday morning. bundle up. i have my abc 7 accuweather app here and it shows it's going to be -- it's 36 degrees right now and then that forecast will drop down even lower to 33 degrees and you have that red banner

that says freeze warning, so you have to be careful. you have to bundle up especially if you're going to hop on a train this morning to work. you want more proof of just how cold it is this morning, check out this sign in walnut creek. it shows that it was 34 degrees at 1:30 this morning. cars were coated with ice. in danville more of the same, dealing with freezing temperatures and icy conditions. big problems, subfreezing temperatures are possible for several hours. plants and pets need to be taken care of. a lot of warming shelters and expanded shelter services are in place here at santa clara county. hundreds of beds are available overnight. meal services as well. we have all that information. we're going to be posting it on our website, abc7news.com. reporting live, matt keller, abc 7 news. matt, thank you. grape growers in napa keeping an eye on the temperature. bud break, the first stage of vine broegrowth, have emerged. growers say if necessary they will turn on wind machines and

other tools they rely on during cold snaps. >> in the east bay neighbors wonder if they'll see more of this today, flakes in the oakland hills yesterday. viewer david collected a few in the palm of his hand. it quickly melted away. in berkeley people saw hail. this is video from a viewer who had hail pelting his backyard deck for several minutes. >> please take pictures and video safely at #abc7now. you may see it on air right here or our website, abc7news.com. let's talk more about the weather now that it is 4:30. >> mike: mike nicco. >> temperatures through friday, just not as many as this morning. a look at what's going on. i overlaid the clouds and there's none. i overlaid the winds, there's hardly any. and that's a perfect recipe when the arctic air