, this is a breaking news alert. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] jummy: the breaking news is about the powerball. the jackpot went up to $700 million. this morning the jackpot was around 600 summary $5 million. within the last 16 minutes agree to a record $700 million. virginia 91 tickets in won some sort of prize in last

night's drawing. another big story we are following this new and, all 17 miners trapped nearly a hundred feet below ground in upstate new york are out safely. more on theez has dramatic rescue and why they are being called inspiring. marci: the sounds of relief after nearly 10 hours of anxiously waiting, 17 miners trapped nearly 900 feet below ground in upstate new york all on solid ground. >> they persevered the best way they could. encouraging to see how well they managed the situation. marci: the group was just starting their shift of the deepest salt mine in the country near ithaca when the elevator they were in some stop working. s huddling together for warmth as local fire and police rushed in to help.

>> manpower needed. out in lansing, on a rope rescue. liftingsing this crane, several workers at a time to the surface. >> we practice evacuations regularly through the year and so that practice is coming into play today. marci: despite being shaken and freezing, the miners waited there at the scene until the last of their coworkers were rescued. spirits are tremendous. i just -- i don't know. i'm inspired by them, to be honest with you. marci: state officials are now investigating and operations are suspended in that part of the salt mine until the cause is determined and the problem is fixed. marci gonzalez, abc7 news. jummy: so glad to hear that turned out well. this a bank robbery

morning in pentagon city, arlington police released these surveillance pictures of the suspect. the robbery happened just after 10:00 the wells fargo on south for an street. the man passed the teller a note but did not show a weapon. he left on foot with an undisclosed amount of money. things are starting to warm up a little bit around the metro area. doug hill is here with a check of our first forecast this thursday. a lot warmer than yesterday. doug: temperatures doing better, and the sky has changed dramatically after day after day of crystal clear skies. clouds and even a little missed in the air around the belfort furniture weather center. 38 degrees right now and cloudy skies and little batches of mist or drizzle possible during the afternoon hours. temperatures warmer than they were yesterday. 39 degrees in baltimore. 37 in leesburg and in manassas as well. through the afternoon, 41-42

come with clouds and a patch of drizzle. highs range between 38 and 43. a bit milder than yesterday. we will see warmer temperatures as we had late tomorrow and into the weekend. as far as the high pressure to give us glorious weather day after day, that is pulling out of the picture and clouds are moving back in. have your clouds and chances of rain as we get through tomorrow and especially as we get through late saturday, saturday night come into sunday morning as well. today, what you see is what you get. tomorrow, little sunshine in the morning. then we have a chance of isolated showers later in the afternoon with highs of 46. we get weather in detail in just a few minutes. crews arentime, wssc working to restore service for dozens of homes in brentwood, maryland, this after some pipes froze. the frozen pipes stemmed from waterline work that has been going on for months now. says the work should be

done by the end of january but they are concerned that the pipes could freeze again because of low temperatures in the coming weeks. is urging customers affected to leave one cold water line running at about 20%. they say that should prevent pipes from freezing. let's get a check on area roads this morning with jamie sullivan. jamie: we are starting off with a few big issues. take a look at this bumper-to-bumper traffic on 95 heading south. again, bumper-to-bumper. we have wrote work in place heading northbound on 395. let's go to the maps and tell you what you just saw with those delays. 3.5 miles of slowing as you get into stafford county, because of across that was blocking the land. everything has been cleared up to the shoulder but you are still going to see traffic almost in the single digits. a little bit further north, no problems in a dale city. so far so good near the mixing bowl. still in good shape traveling on the beltway without any issues.

let's talk about metro, though. expect delays because of scheduled track work. that is on the blue and yellow line. on the yellow light to huntington, we have some delays because of an earlier problem that was outside of pentagon. and of course, the red line midday roadwork, that is in place. expect delays on some of these now. 95 is the big trouble spot for us near stafford county. that is a look at traffic. ok, thank you. firefighters put out a blaze that tour through montgomery county home. morninged at 5:00 this in derwent, maryland. --n, county fire department montgomery county fire department said the family made it out safely after the smoke detectors went off. unfortunately, two pets, a guinea pig and fish, did not survive the blaze. the cause of the fire was misplaced fire ashes. police are investigating a deadly shooting in waldorf, maryland. it happened at 2:00 yesterday afternoon and sent 2 nearby

schools into temporary lockdown. a win is told us he heard two men arguing in a parking lot. one man took off and the other pulled out a revolver. >> i heard a big screen and i looked up and i saw the guys running. i heard gunshots, about five or six shots. he was shooting as he was running. officers arrived and found the victim badly wounded he was pronounced dead at the hospital. police are searching for the gun man. this is considered an unusual outbreak of violence in a county that only had homicides4 last year. now to texas, where the trooper who pulled over sandra bland days before her death is out of a job this news. the department of public safety and as they would fire the trooper, after he was indicted for lying on an affidavit about the traffic stop. dashcam video shows the trooper threatening bland after he to refuse to get out of

her video. he faces up to a year in jail and a $4000 fine. to baltimore now, where prosecutors are moving forward with plans to call one of the 6 police officers charged in freddie gray's death to testify against a fellow officer. has to take the stand in the trial against caesar goodson. his trial is set to begin next week. porter was the first of the six officers to go on trial, and his case ended in a hung jury. bill cosby's next court appearance on a sexual assault charge in pennsylvania is being. sayste court spokesman that the thursday preliminary hearing will be rescheduled. cosby's lawyer's operas to give them more time to prepare. at the hearing, prosecutors will argue the have enough evidence to go to trial. crosby is charged with the and section assaulting a woman in

2004. he remains free on $1 million bail. to a developing story overseas, where the u.s., south korea, and japan have all agreed to launch a united response to north nuclearapparent fourth test. experts are trying to find more details about the defamation that has drawn -- destination that has drawn worldwide skepticism and condemnation. with korea's is that it successfully tested a hydrogen bonded it prompted -- tested hydrogen bomb. it prompted a u.n. emergency session. and killinging unarmed man as he tried to enter a paris police station today. the attack comes as the city's marking one year since the "charlie hebdo" terror attack. killed 12 people inside the magazine's office. in today's incident, a man was carrying a knife, fake suicide vest, and allegedly yelled "allahu akbar."

a bill to repeal the affordable care act is reaching the president's desk this afternoon. ds plannedfun parenthood. it was mostly along party lines. president obama promises to veto. republicans call it a similar victory, showing that if a republican wins the presidency, they will successfully repealed the law. could this presidential election have another birther debate? gop front-runner donald trump is questioning rival ted cruz's citizenship. cruz was born in canada and trump says he should get a check lotion from a judge so that democrats cannot bring a lawsuit against him. cruz says his citizenship is not for debate. child of a citizen born abroad is a natural born citizen. people will continue to make political noise about it but as a legal matter it is quite straightforward. has refused to

attack trump but says he believes his record is stronger. meanwhile, another prison thrown his hat in the ring for president, former new mexico governor gary johnson announcing he will run as a libertarian. he was also a libertarian candidate in 2012. johnson says america's debt is the biggest issue facing the country. he most recently served as the f a marijuana ceo o distribution company out in nevada. "abc7 news at noon" -- libertye skiing on mountain and, can you believe it, we will finally be able to ski this winter. they usually open in mid-december. we will go all the way down the hill. jummy: plus, macy's is closing stores and cutting jobs nationwide. we will tell you it have that is impacting a local store. doug is back with

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>> you are watching "abc7 news at noon," on your side. jummy: for this new year, if you are looking for a fun way to exercise, you might want to consider skiing or snowboarding. the slopes onhit opening day at liberty mountain resort. vertical feet, that is the length of this slope we are on. sounds better than the bunny slope, doesn't it? they are opening the doors at 9:00 this morning. i am on skis for the first time ever. this is my instructor, steve martin. he hasn't been a comedy show. i have been. it has been a blast. oh, here we go.

these folks usually open the -mid-december, before christmas. well, they are opening today. we are thrilled because we know how mild of a winter it has been. they can finally open the doors today. they are definitely excited could how much snow have they made? 1300 tons of snow and our on liberty mountain. >> we are so thrilled to finally be open. making snow since this weekend, space have good 18-inch across the mountain and sneers and snowboarders are joined. -- overjoyed. >> it is mother nature so there is nothing you can do. just wait. john: on monday there wasn't a andk of sno on the slopesw, look at it now. it is a winter wonderland. i didn't fall once, if you can believe that. not too bad for a guy who has

never skiied before. all because of the sky, steve martin. --this guy, steve martin. jummy: he did well. this is the bunny slope, but hey. doug: what he needs to do next is -- a couple of black diamonds. i think he is ready for that. jummy: been practicing. it is oppressing, they were -- surprising, they were two weeks late because it has been so warm. doug: there is been no natural snow and it is not cold enough to get the snow guns working could i will show you places even more spectacular than that because they are a much higher elevation. this is wintergreen, same deal. much higher elevation. at night it gets so cold. the past three days they were able to make plenty of snow. that is all looking good. there will be a bit of a warm up as we head to the weekend.

i don't think it should slow down operations too much at all. clouds in the metro area but just to the west, like wintergreen and snowshoe, crystal clear skies. missed and drizzle in the air. high pressure moves off. southerly component. we are keeping an eye on any area of oyster. for the great up lakes. it will have an effect on us in the next couple days. temperatures in that part of the country starting to warm up. minneapolis at 32. relatively mild number for them. while there temperatures are on the way. our futurecast gives us an idea of how this will work out for the afternoon. it may expand into the west this evening. across portions of indiana, ohio, kentucky, and tennessee, for early tomorrow morning. we will be mostly cloudy by the afternoon. a few scattered showers around the area.

looks like it will be cloudy and the chance of showers increase. scattered showers in the late afternoon and evening. more likely showers through the nighttime and overnight, a few periods of study rain. no chance of ice or snow or anything else. we are looking for an isolated shower. chances of rain through the afternoon. a lingering showers sunday morning. breezy and mild. 60 degrees for the hybr -- for the high. continuing to update the .orecast for fedex field 55-60 degrees. cannot wait till sunday. by the way, the redskins are one-point underdogs vs. the

packers the sunday but this does not seem to bother the team. how good are their chances? wide receiver in super bowl champ and gary clark, and he says that cousins and company should have their eyes on the prize. kirk cousins realizes he is a leader on this team now, and people believe in ki. they should be able to go out there and win games and the defense is playing great. that is what you have to do. would not be surprised if the championship game is at fedex. green bay without a doubt, 100%, take that to the bank. jummy: you heard him, take that to the bank. you can take this to the bank, too. we are giving away redskins prices tomorrow morning, including another pair of tickets to the sunday playoff game against the packers. watch "good morning washington" between 4:25 and 7:00 a.m. good luck, and hopefully you win. and your perfect way to end a pair of remarkable careers.

two baseball greats are being inducted into the hall of fame. for ken griffey, jr., it was a cakewalk. won 99%of the votes-- of the votes on first ballot. joining him is mike piazza, receiving 83% of the vote in his fourth hall of fame campaign. coming up on "abc7 news at noon" we will tell you how netflix is making

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thousands of macy's employees will be getting pink slips. macy's is cutting jobs and closing 36 stores including in hagerstown. the company will lay off more than 4300 employees nationwide following discipline holiday sales. 3000 of those jobs on the chopping block are sales associate positions at macy's and bloomingdale's stores. by the way, if you are traveling overseas, you don't have to worry about missing out on any of your netflix addiction. the streaming video service is now available in 130 more countries, including india, nigeria, poland, russia, saudi arabia, and south korea. netflix officials say it is available in nearly every country except syria, north korea, crimea, and china. another major milestone to tell you about for "star wars: the force awakens." it is the highest grossing domestic film ever. the film made more than $760 million in three weeks, passing the total set by "avatar" nearly

six years ago. still holdsatar" the record for global sales. cloudy, seasonably cold, and you may need your ability marketdough

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the six-year-old using his allowance to take his mother out on a date. she and her son have a date night every month and he opened stores, pulls out chairs, talks about his day, asks about her day. look at that. i think at is a $10 bill there. doug: the concept of children taking money out of the run while it is foreign to me. -- out of their own wallet is foreign to me. in theand a little mist air. warmer on saturday. a good chance of rain late afternoon and nighttime hours. 60 on sunday. it will clear out in time for the redskins. colder next week. jummy: make sure you tune in at 4:00. thanks for joining us. have a great day.

>> hey, it's just answering a bunch of questions in front of a nation of viewers with $1 million on the line. what's the big deal? com on, let's play "who wants to be a millionaire". [dramatic music] ♪ [applause] thank you and welcome to the show. you guys read to play "who wants to be a millionaire"? [cheers and applause] all right. we have a returning contestant, an english teacher who believes in dressing for success. from scituate, massachusetts, welcome back mr. jay savage. [cheers and applause] good to see you again, bud. >> thank you. great seeing you. >> welcome back. welcome back. >> thank you, thank you. >> a little more subdued today. >> little bit, but i've still got my lucky clothes. i'm wearing a pair of popsicle