it is, everybody is upset and scared. they work hard to allow residents to feel safe and prevent those things from happening. kevin: again, d.c. police nab amounted sexual assaulter off the street four days after being featured in the "7 on your side" wall of justice series. much more at 5:00. for now we are live in northwest. i'm kevin lewis, abc7 news. jonathan: thank you very much. in prince george's county police are investigating the death of a 6-month-old girl. they say she died at the hands of her mother's boyfriend. sadly, this isn't the first time that this has happened in the county in the last two years. brad bell joining us live to explain. very sad. brad: we are told there have been five deaths of children in the last two years at the hands of mothers, boyfriends. we want to show you the man right now the police say is responsible for latest crime. his name is kareem bryant.

23 years old. his official address is in the district. but police say he was living in landover with his girlfriend. staying in the apartment. when he was briefly left alone with 6-month-old ryatt tillman and her twin brothers. still not sure what happened but the police say the child was found to have been killed. blunt force injuries to the head and to the chest. as we said, this has been a problem in particular in prince george's county over the last couple of years. tonight the state's attorney is speaking out. >> we as parents have got to do a better job of being careful about who we bring around our children. they are not murdered on the street. they are murdered by people who know them. brad: when we come back at 5:00, we have more details about the case and hear more

from the state's attorney. she has pointed a vice for mothers in the county. and across the region how to protect their children. harsh words but you'll want to hear them. brad bell, abc7 news. michelle: brad, thank you. the attorneys general of virginia, maryland, and d.c. met today with one goal. reduce gun violence. they talked act ways the -- talked about ways the jurisdiction can work together to combat gun trafficking. all three are democrats and support stricter gun control. guns in crimes in maryland for example turn up later in d.c. or virginia. >> when you talk to somebody like that who has suffered such tremendous loss, there is such an emptiness. you have to feel like there is more we can do. michelle: this is a first of its kind meeting. coming up at "abc7 news at 5:00" -- a look at the ideas the a.g.'s are considering. jonathan: while we are talking about it, we invite you to

join us tuesday night for town hall round table on guns in america. chief political correspondent scott thuman will be live to look at the gun laws. the panel has a sheriff, local gun store owner and wife of a survivor of the navy yard shooting. that is tuesday at 7:00 on the sister station newschannel8. michelle: now to the race for the white house. hours after last night's republican presidential debate in his home state, south carolina saturday lindsey graham endorsed jeb bush in the g.o.p. primary. known for his hawkish stand on national security, graham praised the former governor's plan to fight terrorism. the endorsement comes a month after graham dropped out of the race. post debate, a lot of talk is about ted cruz's new york comments. jonathan: he was talking about donald trump when he said this. >> everyone understands that the values in new york city a

socially liberal, pro gay marriage, pro-abortion and focused around money and the media. not a lot of conservatives come out of manhattan. i'm just saying. jonathan: trump responded invoking the strength of new yorkers in the wake of the september 11 attacks but other responses have been angrier. leon harris is here with a look at some of those. leon: "angrier?" that's one way to put it. if you talk to anyone from new york they value the city. it doesn't matter what borough they come from. when the city is attacked as many say cruz did, believe me, they stand up for themselves. >> i think ted cruz has created a lot of anger here and a lot of people around the country will see this as divisive and negative. he owes the people of new york an apology. >> not just what he said is anti-new york, it's anti-american. it's sad and disturbing for all americans. not just for new york.

he is practicing the politics of division, trying to divide people, divide the country. it doesn't work. it's antithet call to who we are. leon: pictures are worst a thousand words. leaf it to the "new york daily news." the cover shows lady liberty offering this obscene gesture using one of her digits and saying, "drop dead ted." if you don't like new york values go back to canada. that line is a reference to donald trump claim recruit that he isn't eligible to run for president since he was born in canada. that brought up a big reaction in the debate last night as well. we'll have to see how it plays out on the campaign trail. back to you. jonathan: u that. breaking news now from wall street where the closing bell just rang moments ago. it's not good. rough day. all day long. the day started with the dow dropping off 300 points. at the opening bell.

by midday they fell 530 on the dow. they're still fluctuating but right now down 390 points on the big board. all of this is tied in to what is happening with the chinese economy and other things like crude oil now at $30 a barrel. things are rough right now. michelle: retail stocks are down including wal-mart. they have broken ground. today wal-mart announced it's canceling plans to build two more stores in the district. the pullback is part of a plan to close 259 stores around the world. one was planned at the skyland town center in southeast. the other is at the capitol gateway marketplace in northeast. d.c. bureau chief sam ford is live in southeast with reaction. sam? sam: i want you to just look at the pounds of dirt over here. the mounds of dirt is where the wal-mart was supposed to be. they were planning a whole project for skyland that

extended all the way over here. this is huge, massive lot. all of this was planned for this wal-mart. anchor center. and now the anchor is not going to be here. wal-mart plans to lay off 10,000 workers in the u.s. in the midst of this, two wal-mart stores that were to be built in d.c. according to the announcement now will not be. this is a shock to be in the area. including developers who are working on the project. wal-mart released a statement this afternoon. saying our experience over the last three years operating our current stores in d.c. has given us a fuller view on building and operating stores in the district. this decision will not affect our three existing stores and we look forward to continuing to serve these customers in the future." and we have with us a mayor,

former mayor vincent gray. this was your project. i mean i know you were fighting very hard for this. >> absolutely. sam: what is your reaction to what has happened? >> this is a devastating outrage that wal-mart has pulled. they ought to be ashamed of what they have done. they need to rescind the decision. they made a commitment to the people of the district of columbia and the people of the district of columbia especially those on the east end in ward seven and eight have been anticipating this, they have been expecting this. every time i come in the c.v.s., adjacent to us people are talking and smiling about the fact this project was going to happen and wal-mart was coming. the c.v.s. was ready move out, as you can see, to my right here and moving to temporary quarters on another part of the site. sam: way down there. that was the temporary cvs. >> slated to open on the 31st of january. sam: so they could stay here. what happens with this now? the city must have spent a ton of money. how much did the city spend on

this? >> if you think of the tax increment that has gone into this and the foreign direct investment through the ep-5 program you probably have $90 million that has been committed to this project. sam: what does it mean to the project with no wal-mart? >> there is nothing else that can happen. unless you have an anchor for the site you don't have any other tenants. tenants will sign on once they know there is an anchor and they know who the anchor will be. nobody is going to sign on to a project that has no anchor. >> thank you. obviously a big shock to people in southeast washington. a big blow. not only this store but another store that was on the border of maryland there in northeast, near the east capitol. not good news here. reporting live from southeast washington, sam ford, abc7 news. jonathan: a tough pill to swallow. thank you. it's not going to snow. but we could be seeing rain tonight. michelle: chief meteorologist doug hill is in the storm watch weather center with check on the forecast.

what is sometime line for the rain? doug: 7:00 or 8:00. move in from the south. too warm for rain. chilly. mid-40's. cloudy outside the belfort furniture weather center. check the numbers. 46 in leesburg. frederick and manassas. 49 in the nation's capitol. 48 in baltimore. the rain is on the way. you can see it from the radar. raining in south and the west. it's going to push northeast to the metro area. the next few hours we will see rain arrive. a big system developing over the carolinas. it will miss us. but by tomorrow morning we will see .8 of an inch in the district. more farther south and east. lesser amount of rain is farther for the storm center. the areas from frederick to winchester up to cumberland. we will talk about the weekend in detail. looking up weather wise for the weekend. i'll share it with you in a few minutes. jonathan: thank you for that. michelle: developing now a massive search is underway off hawaii for a dozen marines.

they disappeared after the helicopters collided in a nighttime training mission. the military along with the coast guard and the local authorities are searching a debris field off oahu. the search is hampered by rough seas. jonathan: well, botched drug trial leaves a patient dead and at least five others facing possible permanent brain damage. french prosecutors right now are looking into what went wrong in testing of a drug to teach mood anxiety and other problems linked to neurodegenerative diseases. but authorities are in the process of contacting the rest of the participants to check on the status. there were 90 people involved in the drug test study. michelle: efforts to tear down the old "washington post" headquarters hit a snag. jonathan: we'll explain why chipotle will be closing all the restaurants at least for a little while. michelle: we are getting new information about the cause of this fire in ocean city. >> some skilled and very organized thieves are coming to this.

the most popular commuter park in all of north virginia. they are doing something shocking. that story when we return.

jonathan: new information on

the cause of the giant fire that gutted an ocean city condo complex wednesday. investigators ruled the fire is accidental and say it was started by a generator in a parking area. nobody was hurt but the thick black smoke could be seen for miles. because it's off-season the complex largely was empty except for construction workers that were working in the area. michelle: we all know the commute can be tough enough in our area. but some folks choosing to carpool are coming back to the lot in woodbridge to find vehicles vandalized. jay korff is there to explain. jay? jay: yeah, guys, busy time right now. people are coming from work and picking up their vehicles. i want to paint a pictur where we are. 95 is over that way. this is the busiest lot in all of northern virginia. we have in the neighborhood of seven or eight different parking lots, thousands of cars. here is what the bad guys are doing. they are coming up to vehicles and removing the lug nuts. is not only are they taking a tire but they are taking the

rim. the whole wheel. then they are leaving the brakes. this has really become quite a mess last night. we have at least four victims. police have not captured the people yet. the video you are seeing right now is of the final vehicle that we actually saw. a black toyota. that car was eventually towed away. we did speak with one of the victims a short time ago. she is, of course, furious. >> obvious answer they need to monitor this. make sure the cars are protecting. i get up at 4:30 and i assume when i come home everything is in intact. jay: the situation, i talked to prince george's county police a short time ago. there was -- [audio interruption] jonathan: we apologize for that. broke up the signal there. check on traffic with jamie sullivan. everybody has the wheels on but they are not going fast.

jamie: there you go. we are not moving in some spots. let's start with the accident we have in d.c. if you travel to the third real estate tunnel southbound trying to get closer to 395 and the freeway, that is right where we have a crash reported. this is when 44 street and capitol street. westbound traffic is diverted. for you to use 42nd or 47th as an alternate. some of the slowing as we are leaving d.c. in the 20's heading north working your way closer to eastern avenue. we are seeing congestion for you on the inner loop and the outer loop in the northwest corner from tysons heading north on the inner loop to 270. trying to get to baltimore. b.w.i. 18 miles per hour if you take the baltimore washington parkway. 95 we are cleared until you get to i.c.c.

north through laurel we're jammed up. take a live look outside. 270 is not bad at all. beltway near bradley. the volume on the inner loop. get a break past this point. that is a look at traffic. back to you. jonathan: thank you. michelle: if you have ever been to london then you know the city is glowing. but right now it's literally glowing. isn't it beautiful? the city is hosting the first ever light festival. the biggest light show in london's history. it runs for four nights and features light installlations from 30 international artists. >> that is pretty cool. one of the brightest stars of the abc team is leaving us on monday. photojournalists peggy gillgannon picked up a camera in 1977. you would know her if you have seen her, she the only photographer carrying a camera in skirt and heels. and her signature battery belt. even if she didn't need it, she was wearing it. for the last 17 years she worked with d.c. bureau chief sam ford out on the streets and they both talk about it on

news talk this morning. >> i think that is part of the business. it's camaraderie. that is the secret. out in the field, you know, on the street, in the studio. everything is always there. we cannot do tv by yourself. you are a family. you have to help each other. i really believe that. jonathan: peggy will join us here on set on monday to talk more about her time here in washington. and her long career. good career, too. michelle: amazing. 40 years. a lot of people can't say that these days in this business. jonathan: especially the funny thing is you will see her years from now and she will be wearing the belt. it's gravitational pull. life belt. got used to it. michelle: peggy's last day mention this, the last assignment for us is to cover monday's m.l.k. day parade. you can watch her work when we broadcast it live on newschannel8 at 12:30. jonathan: talk about what is happening with the weather today. it's a lot warmer today. big difference. doug: above average temperatures. the clouds rolled in.

the sun disappeared and rain in the forecast. the rain gets in and gets out overnight. weekend looking good. water is flat out there. the clouds will lower and thicken in advance of the storm center and the area of rain. temperature is 4959 it the national airport. average high is 43. above the mark for the average. waldorf is 41. it's 47 in dale city. here is the rain. just off to the south and the southwest of the area. bottom of the screen, you may see brighter colors. that is the heavier rain moving in. the rain will make a "b" line to us. this is advancing northeast.

this is a substantial area of the rainfall extended out of the storm. it started on the gulf coast of florida. as it moves northward it is bringing rain. the whole complex had history of producing severe storms, possible tornadoes this morning from fort myers on the west coast of florida to west palm beach, the north palm beach area in the east coast. we are not in the warm unstable air mass. it's stable. rain could be heavy at times. no thunderstorms. by the overnight hours we'll drop in the upper 30's. cold rain. good news is timing. we will move o early in the morning. sunday is 40. we have a reinforcing push of cold air. sunday night flurries. look at this. holiday on martin luther king day. breezy and sunny. high of 29 degrees. we will be a little warmup to 32. sunny and breezy on tuesday. another chance of flurries on wednesday. very slow and a modest warmup

through the end of next week. michelle: that roller coaster trend continues. doug: every day is different. michelle: coming up on "abc7 news at 4:00" -- power problem. how astronauts made history with the repair. jonathan: but first, get ready. last minute touches at the national zoo ahead of tomorrow's panda debut.

♪ ♪ ♪ try a little tenderness michelle: the 1980's classic "pretty in pink" is coming back to theaters. next month is the 30th anniversary of the film release. it stars john crier, molly wingwald, andrew mccarthy and a young james spader. jonathan: they were all great. "breakfast club." and "16 candles." "pretty in pink." they were great coming of age movie. michelle: the debut here is bei bei. jonathan: john gonzalez reports that the baby panda is going on public display and it's happening tomorrow. john: the pride of the national zoo, this guy here, bibay -- bei bei making the public debut. finishing touches here at the

trail. folks have been working hard to get everything ready to key off. they are doing painting and getting the panda habitat ready to go. they have already placed signs out. less than 24 hours before the public will start lining up. look at what it says there. get in line early because it will be very busy. across the path here, the gift shop is open this afternoon. they have already been busy stacking up the panda merchandise for the big day. since august of last year when they had the twins thousands of people in the d.c. area and around the country have been logging on to the national zoo's panda cam. that has been the only way to get a grips of bei bei. well, that is all about to change. at 9:00 tomorrow morning the public will finally be able to come into the zoo and see d.c.'s newest celebrity in person. >> people here love the pandas. it's going to be crazy. in an amazing way. it will be a community and

camaraderie thing. i think people will be so excited. >> the new panda cub weighs 22 pounds this afternoon. he is growing fast and very healthy. becoming more and more independent each day. zookeepers telling us he has been a bit of a sleepy head. sluggish the last couple of days. they are keeping his fingers crossed he will be active tomorrow. he's probably resting up for his big debut. at the national zoo, john gonzalez, abc7 news. michelle: the lines you can count on to be very long. coming up at 4:00. >> lunchtime in d.c. and the line-up at chipotle close to american university is not out the door like it typically is. i'm sheryl connor. expert in crisis management weighs in on how the company ca make a come back. >> plus, the old "washington post" building is also making headlines today. post" building is also making headlines today. i will t

wow. the internet is crazy fast here. i know, right? it's so nice to have everyone over. hi hey. mmm. i just laid an egg. does anybody want it? joey, you want some gasoline? yes, please. mom, guess what? i married a clown and we're having tiny little clown babies. mhm. i just bought a hammer. with internet fast enough for everyone, your guests might get a bit carried away. get out of the past. get fios.

michelle: breaking news now from the supreme court about the bob mcdonald case. leon harris is in the newsroom with the details. leon: we just learned that the supreme court justices will hear an appeal from the former virginia governor bob mcdonald. he is seeking to overturn the corruption conviction. he and his wife were convicted in 2014 for doing favors for wealthy businessman johnny williams in exchange for $170,000 in gift and loans from the company. it will be argued in april and a decision in june. that is important for maureen

mcdonald's case. she is appealing her conviction and allowed to stay out of prison until the supreme court weighs in on her husband's case. more next hour. back to you. jonathan: thank you. all chipotle stores will shut down for a few hours to address the recent outbreaks and make sure the employees are on board with what needs to be done to keep customers safe. sheryl connors talks to customers and crisis management expert on how the company can rebuild the brand. >> they come back with confidence. >> overall it's healthy. >> and and out of chipotle on wisconsin avenue in no time and feels good about what is in his bag. shandelle keeps walking by. >> once i see the campaign and see what they are doing to revamp chipotlely go back. >> chipotle announced a marketing campaign will kick off next month and more than 19,000 stores will shut down for a few hours february 8 to

discuss changes with employees. this follows outbreak of e. coli, salmonella and norovirus that began in august and hit customers in several states. >> regular customers at the chipotle close to american university tell me the line is typically out the door at lunchtime. >> the stamp on fresh food may come back to haunt them. according to rob, who runs a d.c.-based company for crisis communication. he says they need to be more transparent. >> open up and show the process they have and what they are doing. >> we asked but we were not allowed in a local store. >> will you go back? >> yes. i love chipotle. >> in northwest washington, cheryl conner, abc7 news. michelle: another notable closure to pass along the

owner of the five guys franchise in georgetown say they are closing that location. the restaurant has been there for ten years. you may recall before that it was the french bis tro, which was known for soviet spy escape. jonathan: all right. may not be the best night for a stroll through georgetown tonight. michelle: all right. chief meteorologist doug hill is here with a check of the forecast. doug: take an umbrella. rainy but it's not freezing cold. no's or snow. it will rain tonight. rain on the radar is south of fredericksburg. the downtown line of rain between 6:30 and 7:00, around there. it's moving in from the south. part of a larger area of rain. on the southern end of it. a line of severe storms went

through the west coast of florida and crossed over to the atlantic coast. now heavy rain over the counter banks. we are on the fringes of it. nighttime hours the rain is steady and heavy i at times. but it will end overnight. so by the time you wake up there could be clouds but skies clear out. we will be in good shape here. we look forward to the next day or so we see the rain move in and move out. i have a cumulation wise a -- accumulation wise, half inch of rain. lesser amount to north and west of the metro. quickly you can see here, tuesday the sun comes out. fine shape. the forecast overnight is rain, 35 to 42. end by the morning. give you a look at the next three days. spectacular sunshine. late day clouds and the evening flurry. as more cold air arrives we will end the holiday weekend monday, sunny, breezy and very cold with highs in the 20's. jonathan: thank you, doug. now to a developing story out of virginia, the water control

board is giving virginia power thumbs up on the company's plan to handle coal ash. that is the stuff left over after the power plants are using coal to produce electricity. the plant will allow dominion to drain treated old ash water to quantico creek. it's a creek that drains in the potomac river. the prince george's county board of supervisors may suit for public input on the proposal. >> the obama administration is putting a halt on the new coal leases on federal land. interior secretary made the announcement this morning. the government said the program habit changed in 30 years and it needs to be reviewed. jonathan: employees with the "washington post" moved in the new offices at the end of last year but plans the demolish the old headquarters building is not sitting well with the neighbors. sam sweeney is joining us live to explain why that is. sam? zach who would think the building would make headlines again? today it is. demolition began on the iconic building a few days ago.

the people who live in the condos surrounding this building are not happy. the city issued the demolition company here a permit to work 24 hours a day. seven days a week. from now all the way through the end of april. normally the permits are only issued in emergency situations. when people's lives or the property are in danger. neighbors say that is not the case here. they are not happy about it. they want answers. >> the district did a great job when they came up with the noise control regulation and when they came up with the permitting regulations with respect to construction and afterhours activity in particular. we would like them to stick to their own regulations. >> now we reached out to the properties at the demolition crew in charge of the project. they told us that the 24-hour permit is necessary because it would allow them to work in

the overnight hours when there is less people and less traffic. you can see right now, 4:00 how busy the street is. they say there is a lot of heavy lifting that needs to be done in the building. it's just safer. there are less people and less cars around. most importantly for everyone, they also say it will shorten the project from seven months down to three months. coming up at 5:00. i tell you what the people who live in the condos are planning to do to halt the project. that part of the story in less than an hour. reporting live in northwest, i'm sam sweeney, abc7 news. michelle: thanks. plenty of garbage in any regulation project. it wouldn't a problem withs a car the grouch -- oscar the grouch. but when "sesame street" moves to hbo he will be moving as well. he will be splitting his time. g is for gentrification. >> when he moves to the bigger things he needs to stretch

out. manhunt needs more space. coming up for us at "abc7 news at 4:00" -- history cut short in space. we'll explain why that happened. michelle: a little later finding a great deal after the holidays. some advice so you don't waste your

michelle: astronauts on the international space station preparing for a spacewalk took a photo of hurricane alex in the atlantic. tonight alex weakened to a tropical storm and moving away from the azores. the first january hurricane since 1938. a record-setter. alex caused minor damage to the island. residents report down trees and loss of power but little damage to buildings and homes. jonathan: a spacewalk,always fun to do those things. michelle: great pictures we get to see. jonathan: no question. michelle: the spacewalk was cut short after one of the astronauts reported moisture in the helmet. jonathan: it is never a good thing. it ended early but it was historic for the united kingdom. alison starling has more. alison: hi. astronaut tim peake became the first british citizen to walk in space under his country's

flag. before today the only brit to walk in space had dual citizenship and were members of nasa. so it successfully replaced a piece of equipment that regulates power from the solar panels. the equipment failed two months ago and that cut a power by the eighth. so the astronauts had to complete the repair in darkness to panels would not collect electricity from the sun. they only had 31 minutes to get it done. they had to complete the repairs before the sun came back in view. no pressure whatsoever. only 31 minutes. the astronauts completed other tasks, though, including installing cables for new docking ports. for tim peake, astronaut we mentioned he received well wishers on twitter from the british prime minister and paul mccartney. how about that? jonathan: nice. name-dropper. thanks. astronomers found the brightest super nova ever discovered. the exploding star that shines with incredible luminosity. this particular super nova is

nearly 4 billion lightyears from earth. so it's not down the block. given that distance the light we are seeing now went out a long time ago. the question is how bright really is that? so astronomers use slide rules and the math and they say the light they are seeing now was probably 570 billion times brighter than the kind of light the sun puts out. wow! michelle: impressive. coming up on "abc7 news at 4:00" -- hitting the ice at a young age. >> fears about the potential for cancer have a virginia lawmaker calling for a stop to crumb rubber. i'm "7 on your side" investigator joce sterman. coming up, how long t

jonathan: followup to the i-team story on crumb rubber fields. concerns have a lawmaker taking a strong stance in richmond. i-team investigator joce sterman has more with what the delegate wants to see happen to the controversial fields. joce: this is a personal fight to the delegate. he has a 10-year-old son

playing goalie, sometimes on crumb rubber. after news reports including our own exposed concerns about a potential link between crumb and cancer, he says virginia needs to stop putting stuff down in places where the kids play. crumb rubber concerns have come to light in recent month with the athletes counting more than 200 reported cancer cases after playing on crumb rubber. it's made up of ground up tires. delegate simon from falls church pitched a bill to call for three-year moratorium on the installation of the crumb rubber in virginia. they went all in and said it was not a hazard. but simon wants the state department of health to do its own study.

he did pitch the same bill last year but at the end of the session. he didn't get enough time to sell it at lawmakers but back again in richmond. the plan would have the state health department report back in a year and make formal decision about whether it's safe to be installed. jonathan: thanks. the washington capitals aren't the only red hot hawk team in the region. michelle: no. a group of 9 and 10-year-olds-ys in hay market, virginia, are turning heads. the young hockey players are taking their talents to new york this weekend? >> kids are up in snowy and cold buffalo. they have a chance to bring home a national championship. >> meet the piedmont

predators, already falling in love with hockey. >> i try to have fun. it's with a team. i don't call at it team. i call it my family. scott: a young family growing on the ice together. >> they click right off the bat. kids this age and this young people say don't have chemistry. they have chemistry. >> they are 21st in the nation for the age bracket. this weekend the predators are heading to the invitation-only cup national championship. in buffalo. >> we're going to take on the best teams across the u.s. and canada. the teams, two of them in the top ten in the united states. >> a daunting challenge the team is ready to face. >> we are all a band of brothers. we are all brothers that are

together. >> we get challenged very much. that is how our team gets better in many ways. we get challenged. that motivates us to get better and better. >> piedmont guaranteed at least four games in the tournament. they open up play today against the team from ontario, canada. scott: the piedmont predators are not the only team from the region going to the tournament. the 2002 and the 2003 little cats and the team maryland are also in buffalo. jonathan: what a great experience for them. especially if they will see the best teams in the country to mix it up to make them better. >> playing for the love of a game. maybe a national championship, who knows? michelle: maybe. that would be a nice bonus. >> i am working on another story at 5:00 in abc7 that will be interesting. gonzaga college high school senior henry chas tain is the everyday 18-year-old student athlete. four-year player for ice

hockey and lacrosse. he has a lacrosse scholarship to maryland. tonight at 5:00 on abc7 i will show you how henry is overcoming odds with every breath he takes. he is the impressive young man. jonathan: look forward to that. >> let's talk about weather. michelle: this is warmer than we expected. >> upper 40's to lower 50's. it will change this weekend. by monday it will feel like winter. a lot of folks want it to feel like wintertime. monday, get ready. >> torpedo factory. temperature at reagan national is 48 degrees. well above average for this time of year. you can see the showers well south and west of us around the capital beltway. dry now.

no problems for the commute. but the further west you can see the rain line moving closer to manassas. triangle. you will see the rain in the next 15 to 25 minutes. forecast overnight is 32 to 45 degrees. period of rains will diminish. winds will be light out of the south. we show you the weekend forecast. the first shot of cold air arrives sunday. temperatures around 40 degrees. maybe snowshowers to the west of us. abreastry day for martin luther king day. i will show you the next seven days. daytime high near freezing on tuesday. 40 by friday next week. the night time lows monday and tuesday in the teens. that is inside the capital

beltway. jamie sullivan? jamie: no sun glare. but we have a crash. if you are heading southbound third street double before you get to the freeway, there are two left lanes blocked. we have a fuel spill. dealing with this most of the afternoon. westbound traffic being diverted. 42nd street and 47th street. both going to be good options as the alternates. heading 295 in the single digits. we are seeing that as well heading southbound to national harbor. on the cap poll beltway. nine -- capital beltway. nine miles per hour. look at the american legion bridge, show you what i am talking about, this is our traffic inching along. we don't have anything reported on the bridge but it's very, very slow. keep in mind with this delay you will have it until you get

to 270. then you get a little break. that is a look at traffic. back to you. jonathan: thank you very much. coming up for us at 4:00, before you spend another cent in january. you will want to see this. michelle: what you should and should not buy this month. that's next. across america, people like basketball hall of famer

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it's covered by most health plans. john: the holidays are over and you can get a parking spot in malls in the d.c. area. it doesn't mean you should stay home. some of the best sales of the year are on now or about to start. most of us are shopped out by now after weeks of holiday spending. but if you have the energy this could be the best time of year to grab post holiday bargains. >> this is only a couple of bucks. john: dealnews.com says the mild winter means stores slash prices on the cool weather clothing more than usual. january and february are good months for electronic markdowns with new gadgets

hitting shell evers in march. grab after the now. stores stocked up at christmas and wanted down by spring. from the doesn't that stink file? some things not to buy in the winter months. surprisingly they include grills and patio equipment. stores cleared out last year's grill in the fall. they are stocking up with the full price merchandise. don't buy suitcases now. this is peak selling season for travel gear. start to look at furniture and appliances now but the biggest sales of the year are president's day weekend in mid-february. don't waste your money. i'm john matarese, abc7 news. leon: tonight -- >> ramped up and we realized the same person. leon: the end of the line for an escapee accused in a string of sexual assault. what the chief credits for the takedown. >> they made a commitment to other stores. we concerned about that. leon: wal-mart taking fire from competition, local

politician and shoppers after a surprise announcement. and dangerous we have imagines in the online music videos in the kind of ads only the web can deliver. announcer: now "abc7 news at 5:00". on your side. alison: first at 5:00, a man wanted in connection to five sexual assaults has been captured. leon: that man has been featured in the "7 on your side" wall of justice. kevin lewis joins us with how they captured a dangerous man. tell us about it. kevin: hi there. armed with a good dose of intelligence, d.c. police arrested melvin latney yesterday. as we learned this week, he is no stranger to police. or abc7 news. jennifer: hello, i'm jennifer donelan. this is the "7 on your side" "fighting back: wall of justice." kevin: on monday we featured melvin latney in the wall of justice segment. four days later d.c. police

arrested the 25-year-old at a home in southeast. cops say latney is solely responsible for a string of sex assault robberies. five in total. all across d.c. including in the capitol hill neighborhood. each attack took place between 7:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. the recent occurring new year's eve night. he would approach his victims from behind and violently hit them in the head. >> the urgency was ramped up. when we realize it's the same person. kevin: police chief cathy lanier say the assaults began november 24, two days before thanksgiving when latney ran away from his halfway house. >> a person was attacked, walking home from work, walking in their own community. that community no matter where it is. everybody is upset and scared. i think that is why we work so hard to try to make sure the residents do feel safe and we work so diligently to prevent those things from