stephen: we heard from metro g.m. paul wiedefeld. he talked about metrobus and metrorail. big progress. 79 of 91 stations are reopened. full service restored to the green line. partial service to all other lines. by tomorrow morning they expect full service on the metrorail except for the five distant branches of the silver line. today they made progress toward healing the snow-crippled metro system. >> because of the hard work from a lot of people, as of 3:00 today we had limited service across the system on the blue and yellow, green line. stephen: metro manager had news for the snowbound people who plan to return to work tomorrow. >> the system will open at 5:00 a.m. and serve all the lines except for silver line. stefs the limited reopen of

metro brought cheers. >> we are overjoyed. stephen: it meant freedom for some stranded tourists. >> we have been here for two and a half days. stephen: since metro is free there is no way to gauge ridership but those who did board a bus or train had the same sentiment. >> thankfully we had it running again after the weekend. i had to jog some places to see my friends. major relief. stephen: as far as the metrobus, tomorrow morning at 3:00 early, 3:30, that early, metrobus service will begin and go from the life line, restricted service to the severe weather. so it will be a greatly increased bus service tomorrow morning. we will be updating you next hour on how the service will expand tomorrow. reporting live, stephen

tschida, abc7 news. leon: well, b.w. parkway is still closed between south run and the beltway. that will be 24 hours that it has been shut down. jamie sullivan is keeping a close eye on the road conditions tonight. jamie, what do you see out there? jamie: i have a perfect visual for you. this is what we are seeing. crews hire trying to push the snow off the roads to the sides. we can travel through. we have the cars that are trying to pass by. this is one of the reasons we keep asking everyone please, just stay off the roads. so the crews, the bobcats here can do their job. they are working fast. let me tell you. they have this all cleared out in a matter of three minutes. we couldn't get our videos out fast enough to capture it for you. move to the maps. i want to touch on a few other things. as you heard leon mention still closed g.w. parkway where we are seeing issues. that is until further notice. we will let you know. they did plan to reclose it.

they opened it up from 8:00 until 4:00. assume it's closed for quite a while. you can see a lot of green in the other areas now. this is a picture we got from vdot. northern virginia. they showed the same thing you just saw. all the cars squeezing by in the left lane. stay home so they can do their job. back to you. alison: brad bell is in mobile track 7. you made it back safely from florida. welcome back. brad: what happened here? what happened? this is terrible. oh, my gosh. i want to show you the side street here. we are in arlington. if you take a look ahead of this, this is a two-lane road. but there is only one lane that is passible. you can see we on the left of the yellow strike. take a look at the cars along the side. buried in. a few people have come out and dug out their way to make the

pounds of snow even taller. no one has touched it. that person is through 10, 20 pounds of salt to hope it would melt snow in front of the car. it is quite a sight. some people are shoving. you can see right now no one is out in the block we have driven here. that is typical of the problems that everyone experiencing across the way. the plow made a pass down the road. they made one pass. one travel lane. now on the proper side of the yellow side. approaching the intersection, pedestrians. they have very few places to walk so you often find them in the street. something else to look forward to. it is tough sledding out here. in arlington, brad bell, abc7 news. back to you. leon: i bet you wish you were back at the beach, don't you, brad?

chopper 7 overhead after the roof collapsed on the church at silver spring. this happened before noon today. montgomery county reporter is there live with the details for us. what is the story? kevin: hey, leon. the snow is light. when you pack up to 38 inches of this on top of an entire roof, the damage can be severe. this church is a prime example of that. although it is missing the roof, the northern facade and entry way is still standing. tilting forward. the damage here is very bad. the snowfall wreaked havoc on the church. the roof gave way. the damage tragic and yet remarkable. >> i'm thank. nobody was inside. >> sue ellen lives behind the church. >> it's unbelievable. one minute there is a billing and theneck minute how does that happen? kevin: shiloh christian church is not alone.

on saturday, a barn partially collapsed trapping a dozen horses inside. saturday, the redskins indoor practice bubble in ashburn deflated. the swim and the tennis dome in gaithersburg suffered a similar fate. dam totals are still being -- damage totals are still being calculated. joe davis who also lives near the shiloh christian church is thankful no one was injure bud feels for the small congregation without the deep wallets. >> they put funding into building the church. so for anyone connected with the church, i am sure it's devastating to hear that news. >> it is worth noting the neighbors haven't sean the church members attend sunday service in quite some time. we did try to reach out to the church leadership today but did not have any luck. live in silver spring, i'm kevin lewis, abc7 news. leon: all right. thank you. alison: bright and beautiful sunshine out there. it's pretty warm.

but we are hearing that maybe tomorrow we'll see more snow. did you hear this? leon: hopefully that is not what we are going to get. we are just praying for rain. that is what we want here. let's see what steve rudin in the stormwatch7 weather center has to say about that. steve: it doesn't look major. mainly showers with rain showers tomorrow and in the evening. 39 in centreville. waldorf at 34. widen the view out. everyone is above freezing. the exception is frederick and hagerstown. both around 30 to 31 degrees. be on the lookout for the slick roadways up there. satellite and radars clouds increase from south and west. clouds overspread the area in the overnight. we could have area of dense fog in the morning. fresh snow pack. be careful out there with a

slick roadways also. the hour-by-hour forecast. the sun will set in 14 minutes. 5:21. nighttime lows above freezing at 33 to 34 degrees. looking ahead for the day tomorrow, the highs once again back in the 40's. with a chance for showers late day. we are talking about a big warmup. wouldn't you know it. it in time for the upcoming weekend to next week. all you need to know coming up. leon: coming up at "abc7 news at 5:00" -- taking precautions. your saidwalk may be clear. how about the house? look at the spots you may have overlooked. alison: later taking off. we'll check in on my operations at all three local airports after the storm. >> when it becomes to the big dig it depends where you look. clear roads and smooth sailing but not the case in other roads. there is frustration that is boiling. i'm jeff goldberg.

we'll explain in a live report. leon: we are keeping track of the roads for you across the region tonight. right now mobile track 7 on the roads to look at the streets plow and the ones that haven't been. that is coming up. alison: one more note as we go to break. we are standing by for the press conference we mentioned from d.c. mayor muriel bowser. we will bring it to you as soon as it begins.

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leon: well, a group of residents in silver spring want to get out of their neighborhood but they can't because they have not seen a single plow come through there yet. check this out. kids on brewster court got outside to take matters in their own hands and literally dig themselves out. they shoveled for hours to make a path in the cul-de-sac. that leads out to a plowed parking lot we are told. abc7 called the county to find out why no plows have come through the area. they are asking people to be patient and will get there eventually. county officials say they are working some 5,000 miles of snow. alison: wow! a little girl had a tiny pink shovel. i don't know how far she was

going to get with that but she's trying. leon: got to do what you got to do. the view from the news chopper 7. can you see that? it looks like a winter wonderland out there. three days of being stuck inside, that is not much fun. the folks are inching to get outside. alison: northern virginia bureau chief jeff goldberg live in arlington where it seems like drivers are finding it's not the safest thing to try to get out right now. jeff: it's not. the folks in silver spring and the people in arlington would have a lot to talk about. i'm on north galveston street. this is not a park or a parking lot. this is mine side road off carlin spring road in arlington. here is the situation. no plows have come through here. probably won't be here, maybe not until tomorrow into tomorrow evening. a similar situation in the city of alexandria as well. we did driving in other part of virginia today and things were good shape in a lot of

the main roads. they moved smoothly. so many others were clear and smooth sailing. vdot has been working 24/7 since thursday night pretreating and clearing the roads in the storm and after the storm. 4300 pieces of equipment across northern virginia. making progress but the work is not done yet. >> it is slow going. not a lot of places to put it. we appreciate the residents patience. we are working to get to them. >> it feels amaze being out. been home for two days now. cooped up inside. the sleeping, resting. now everyone is back out. enjoying the sunny day. >> vdot handles all the roads

in loudoun, fairfax, prince william county. in arlington and alexandria, the city and the county handle the roads. including the side streets. the city and the county asking for patience. they understand the situation. we have more on that coming up in an hour at 6:00. until then, live in arlington, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. alison: all right, jeff. thank you. well, obviously we weren't the only ones to get hit by the storm. this is connecticut. a different look. so difficult. look at that. the storm's time combined with a higher than normal tide with a full moon turned the streets to rivers. the damage was minor and the waters receded after the tide went down. leon: we saw some of that here. we saw the beach erosion. steve: unbelievable. the snow is developing. we will keep the snow melting

process going. alison: felt like it was warm today. >> at least the sun was out for part of the day. now the clean-up has begun. people are getting outside. they feel better. we will continue the process. look at pennsylvania avenue. the sun will set in five minutes. it's bright for 15 to 25 minutes after that. you can see the roadways with the snow on the side. it looks like the traffic is getting around fine. at least downtown. side streets remain a big, big problem. 35 degrees at reagan national airport. the temperatures will slowly fall. get this. the past nine days have been below average at the reagan national airport. that has not happened since february 23 through march 3 last year. finally for the day tomorrow, near average. look at the calendar. last month most of the calendar was shaded in yellow. nine days with the below

average readings. tomorrow is on the edge of the near average. above average as we move toward the end of the month of january. the wind chill factors are not much of a problem. head outside to walk the dog or shovel the sidewalk. you won't run into the wind chill factor issues. just the air temperature. that is not so bad considering the snow on the ground. with the fresh snow layer we look for a chance of fog to develop later tonight and into the early morning hours. satellite and radar, clouds are moving in. cloud cover will keep temperatures up this evening last night and this morning. now with the clouds in place it will have insulating dome. on the milder side for the

overnight hours. the clouds are overspread inside the capital beltway moving to the north and east. we will have the bad news with a potential for dense fog. temperature range 27 to 34. winds out of the southwest at 5 to 10. they will turn light early morning hours. waking up to the temperatures milder than today. 32 in bethesda. 32 in college park. near freezing in upper marlboro. wood bridge around 31 degrees. the future cast does show a shower activity on the way. it doesn't arrive until this time tomorrow. we'll stick around in the evening hours. it won't amount to a lot. you can see that it's widely scattered. by 6:00, most should be to the north of us. another chance for snowflakes across southern maryland. not expecting it to amount to a lot. this happens early wednesday morning. then we will dry things out and warm things up moving closer to the upcoming weekend. noontime, 41. 44 at 4:00.

i will take you out and look for the seven-day outlook. middle 30's on thursday. 39 on friday. mid-40's on saturday. a lot of melting this weekend with 50 on sunday. monday next week, ahh, 55 degrees for a daytime high with the nighttime lows in the 30's. the next big chance for more substantial rains are early next week. we look at another potent system. it's rain. because temperatures temperature warm. alison: thank goodness. we don't need another one of those. leon: thank you. find out about the school closings when we do by signing up for the text alerts. go to wjla.com. we will send everything we get here right to your phone. straight from the newsroom to your phone. alison: it's still amazing. just how big the storm is. look at this. nasa and noaa provided a view from the weather satellite that shows the storm in the moonlight and see the city light below it.

the full moon caused problems in coastal towns. we showed you video from connecticut in high tide. but it provided enough light to see the cloud top from richmond to new york and even farther. this was one for the record books. leon: look at that. looks like the milky way. alison: i know you love all this. you geek out on all of this stuff. leon: yeah, i do. i really do. alison: you love it. like the picture that scott kelly. leon: amazing. the shot was amazing. it gives you a perspective of how massive that is. i mean, if you could see the actual map of the early over the map of the country laid out over that it covers thousands and thousands of square miles. that is what it lookses like from another world. alison: amazing. well, one more note here before we go to a break. we are waiting for word from office of the personnel management about the federal government and their status tomorrow. leon: all right. let your know as soon as we hear anything. once the press conference is

underway we'll take you there live. stay with us. alison: still ahead we take a look at the impact of the storm on some other parts of the midatlantic. leon: but first, finding a safe place to walk. battle for the folks trying to get to places without their cars after all the snow. not too easy. alison: all right. we are going to go back to d.c. mayor muriel bowser, make a listen. >> i am here to provide a brief, very brief operational update from the dig out of the blizzard 2016. we are many our second day of digging out from the storm. the director will give you a brief update about where we are with the digout and the condition of our roadways. you have probably already heard from metro. we reported earlier today that almost every station was open on the district of columbia. now at this time, every

station in the the district of columbia is open on metro rail. we also understand metro upgraded the bus service from lifeline to severe snow. to their severe snow schedules. the schedules are available on their website. we are also announcing that d.c. public schools schools wiln on wednesday. we will reopen d.c. public schools on wednesday. we will continue to offer breakfast and lunch at the 10 d.c. public schools identified earlier today. and today we served more than 500 meals at those schools serving breakfast and lunch. you can also find out about those sites for breakfast and lunch at the schools by calling 311. i will open district government tomorrow on time. we will get back to the business of all of our

agencies serving d.c. residents. those who dis business in the district of columbia. d.c. government will open on time tomorrow. i should take a minute to thank all of the government employees. some you see, some you don't, who have been working 12-hour shifts so we could respond to this storm. we want to also remind people to use public transportation. it's back up. metro can talk about the schedule. we need you to continue to stay off the roads so we can get curb-to-curb access on all the major streets. that is very important. also there is, while all the main thoroughfares are passible there is limited parking. so we encourage you to take the metro to get to work.

also, i want to remind you about trash. we are suspending trash pickup today, tomorrow, wednesday. we hope to resume regular trash pickup on thursday. if your trash day is monday or wednesday we ask that you hold your trash and put it out next week when your regular service will resume. if we need to make any operational changes to trash, given weather, we will continue to announce that to the public. i also just want to say how grateful we have been from the support of our partners. director mentioned to you earlier in morning we are finalizing the paperwork that will allow us to apply for disaster assistance from fema. i was pleased to get a call from the white house this afternoon. to offer any support from the president to make sure that

that process went smoothly. we are grateful for that call and offer of assistance. so with that i will turn to chris for a brief operational update. >> thank you, madam mayor. i'm the director of the homeland security and emergency management agency in d.c. for the last 48 hours of our response in this storm, we have been focusing on ensuring we open up our primary routes, get to our secondary routes and put a presence out there throughout the city and all 14 snow zones we have. happy to say all of our main roads have 100% accessibility. with that done we are working to the next phase of the operation to take the resources and guide them to the areas that have been less treated so far. we will look at the areas where there have been passes. or there may not have been

passes in in the last 24 hours on certain streets. we will angle forces toward that and start to really get keeper into the residential areas to start to really hit those hard throughout the city. so the first 48 hours focused focus to get the main arterial and the secondary streets done. now we focus on areas that have not been hit as hard as the main lines. tre are incrossed presence in the 14 zones in particular the areas we know may not have hit. we can take questions. [inaudible question] leon: there we go. wrapping up a press

conference. we will get back to you if there is any more new information coming out. right now headline is metro up and running. they have gotten 100% passability on all the major roads now. getting to the secondary roads. alison: they are making for the girl scout meeting...

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"abc7 news at 5:00". on your side. leon: a day of sunshine but still slow progress digging out from blizzard 2016. alison: the death toll now stands at 37. most of the fatalities are attributed to heart attacks, carbon monoxide poisoning. four deaths in the area. leon: most school districts are closed again tomorrow. you can find a complete listing of the schools in their situation at the bottom of the screen and, of course, as well as wjla.com. all metro lines reopen at 5:00 a.m. metro bus will start the day on a severe weather service plan. only major routes will have service. only the busiest portion of the routes are around. alison: also airlines and the airports working to resume their normal operations. more than 2,500 flights canceled or delayed today. leon: that is a small number compared to yesterday. it was like 6,500. alison: we're getting there. check in with jamie sullivan

to find out how the roads are looking now. jamie: the roads are wet. we are seeing that in quite a few areas. people are still out there traveling which we don't encourage. we are seeing a few minor accidents popping up. for the most part we are in the green. the biggest update we did receiver. northbound on the g.w. parkway. lanes have reopened from the spout run to 123 and continuing past that to the beltway. the bigger picture, we are mostly in glean. we encourage you to stay off the roads. there is nowhere to park. there is nowhere to pull off if there is an accident so it blocks up all the lanes. you get a good idea how wet the roads are. of course, not a lot of traffic here. through virginia, on 9 it 5, light volume. we want to keep it very light now. so crews can get out there and do their jobs.

that is a look at traffic. we'll keep you updated if anything new happens. leon: you got it. several local governments will let you track where the plows are and where they will be headed next. joce sterman picks up the coverage now from the newsroom to show you how to do all of that? joce? joce: it's all interactive. all the jurisdictions, they don't want to field your cars. they know if they put the information on the internet where you can access it, it might cut down somerville of the call vol -- cut down on some of the call volume and complaints. highlights. this is montgomery county storm operation map. a key on here. the map is a little slow to load. you zoom in and it tells you the progress. the roads you see here in yellow are the ones in progress. if it's red, it's complete. then they will show you the primary neighborhood roads. they will be blue and yellow as compared to just blue if they complete. and basically you can zoom in. check out all of this stuff. zoo in. zoom out. it will tell you how they are

doing. in d.c. they handle it differently. they show you the progress. map it out over time and check out where things are. the purple dots show you whether they have salt on the road in certain location. light purple shows plows and salt. just green is just a plow. you can see the people on the road and see the plow trucks in action and report whether or not something has been updated by taking a look at that map. lastly i want to show you vdot as well. they have cool features, too, that are a little more interactive. you can tell what is actively plowing, contracted truck. you can read here and check out the video and the camera. they tell you who is on the road out here from vdot. we are hearing from consumers who look at the map and though they are constantly updated we

hear conflict that what they see on the internet does not necessarily reflect what they are seeing in person. so take the maps with a grain of salt. back to you. leon: you got it. appreciate it now. now folks, listen, if you want to check the plows and everything for yourself we will get you information on how to do that. so, go to wjla.com. alison: well, you may have already dug out your sidewalks. maybe your car. what about your house? diane cho shows us the spot you really need to pay close attention to keep your family safe. diane: the snow drift at the apartment complex quickly built up and covered up the water heater vent and the dryer vent here which can cause carbon monoxide poisoning, which is why the firefighters stress it is important to clear three feet around the areas. the county firefighters were called out to apartment building in 1200 of eldon

street in herndon after several people complained they weren't feeling well. they used the carbon monoxide readers and found it was over 200 parts per million. and the carbon monoxide alarm would go off at ten. >> we have a gas hot water heater. the crews would come in here and note the gas pipe. the gas pipe coming in. diane: they were called back to a different building and same problem and they transported seven people to the area hospital to be evaluated. >> anything that burns a fossil fuel will produce carbon monoxide. so gas, gas fireplaces. diane: firefighters say the people are back home now and doing okay but it is why they are stressing the importance of buying a carbon monoxide detector. for the next storm firefighters say to plan ahead. and identify where the exhaust vents are locate around the home or the apartment building and go ahead and clear the

areas early and often as possible. in herndon, diane cho, abc7 news. leon: the district is dumping a lot of snow in parking lots of r.f.k. stadium. it's building up fast. we want to know about when you think it will melt? when do you think it will disappear? we posted it on facebook. john, says it will be gone in a few weeks. sorry, you are dead wrong. rick says mid-march. you have a shot. evidence van says he thinks it's gone on april fool's day. good guess there. give us your guess on the facebook page. we'll keep track and let you mow who wins when it happens. alison: all right. we'll see what happens. coming up at "abc7 news at 5:00" -- snow day. look at what happens with one of the crews when they get snowed in. leon: then later, stocking up. how stores are faring after days without deliveries.

ja here is the storm from manassas. the parking lot is completely covered in snow. this is just beautiful. this comes to us from a farm in maryland. panel walsh shows the ponies out there just loving the snow. isn't that beautiful? leon: a great shot. alison: we received nearly 5,000 pictures and videos from viewers like you in the

blizzard. we ahh for helping us with the coverage. reminder still if you see it, send it to us at pics@wjla.com. leon: keep them coming. alison: really nice. leon: great shot of the ponies. alison: news chopper 7 meanwhile was of course out and about and found people digging out from the storm all over the region. leon: that is right. our own crews weren't even able to make it to work today. alison: photo journalist jeff rose shows us how some rockaway residents keep in touch with the friends and loved ones even though they can't get out. [ringing ] >> how are you doing today? i'm fine. i'm snowbound. in house. i can't move. >> we had so much snow. we had around 30 inches of snow. >> it doesn't make any difference. we shovel the driveway because we haven't seen a snowplow. we can't go anywhere any ways. >> it's beautiful. we are warm and dry. >> we are learning about the

word "cold." >> i am excited for college. to go back to college. i can't wait to actually go back and see my friends again. >> this is the worse snow i've ever seen. >> supposed to go skiing this morning. that was canceled because we can't get out of our driveway. >> strawberry. this one is butter. that is chocolate. >> we made different kind of snow ice cream. >> yeah. that one is really good. >> eventually it will be over. i like the snow days. i like the break. i like the respite from the crazy montgomery county life. >> look at that. what a shot. jeff is one of the best. jeff clearly proving himself. he filed that from home. he couldn't get in here. alison: so he went to see his neighbors, which is nice. tight community there.

leon: when we say "7 on your side" we mean it. brad bell drove 1,100 miles to get to work here. jeff rose filed stuff from his garage. alison: nothing stops them. leon: we are going to cover the storm one way or another, folks. coming up, mobile track 7 keeping an eye on conditions on the road. we'll check back in with brad bell who did make it here himself on the road. we will see him in a few minutes. >> finally we got activity in the local airports again. but things are not exactly back to norm

alison: welcome back. we have look at news chopper 7 flew over the county. streets and sidewalks covered with snow. when you have been snowed in for days it doesn't make trekking out too easy. amy spoke to people hitting the roads by foot. leon: we'll get to amy's report in a bit.

things are getting back to normal at local airports tonight. finally b.w.i. marshall is saying the regular operations will resume tomorrow. the individual airlines might be canceling some of the flights. if you do have a flight right now you should contact the individual airline and find out what the status is. alison: the metropolitan washington airport authority is giving the same sort of advice for the flights in and out of reagan international and dulles international airports. wma expect things to be close to normal at both of the airports sometime tomorrow. what about the people who had to fly out of the local airports before the storm hit? what do they do now? tom roussey live at dulles with that part of the story. hey, tom. tom: hey, alison. let me show you what is going on at dulles. goodness. for the first time in days we have activity. quite a lot of it. these folks are waiting for qatar airways right here. we talked to a lot of folks who had to stay in hotels over

the weekend because their flights didn't leave. there are other folks who are not sure they'll get out tonight. but you know whether you are inside or whether you actually landed and you go outside, once you get out you have to start dealing with the snow. things still aren't necessarily perfect. >> banks was supposed to fly home with her daughter friday. >> that is when the snow started. we have been here ever since. tom: they stayed at a hotel. >> it was not fun. you couldn't get anywhere. you were stuck. tom: as tough as it was to stay out, some came back to this. >> i didn't patch my shovel or gloves. tom: but andrew was impressed with how much snow was removed from the economy line. with help from the shovel he got out. these were forced to drive to dulles from charlotte. >> only to find our car totally buried but they were kind enough to dig us out.

tom: dug out most of the way. >> it took a little shoveling. then it took a lot of pushing. but finally they were clear. >> we have a little cat waiting for us. the neighbors been taking care of her. be nice to see her, too, get home. tom: "7 on your side" was glad to help them start the final trip of a leg that began in spain. they should be home in howard county tonight. there are a lot of folks looking to get out of town. look at this. so many canceled on the boards. you see the occasional on time. i'm told tomorrow at the three major airports in area you should see more of this. and a lot less of this. that said, the airlines will be dealing with the residual effects from the canceled flights probably the entire week. reporting live at the dulles international airport, i'm tom roussey, abc7 news.

alison: great job. thank you. well, d.c. giant male panda can't get enough of the snow. we got another video from the national zoo. they released this new video today of tian tian rolling down the hill in his enclosure. still loving it. the video kept playing in the storm and it went viral. that is the original one. it was received nearly 2 million views on youtube. many, many more on other platforms including our website. the zoo will be closed again tomorrow while the dig-out continues. leon: i don't know which one i like better. that or the guy in the -- alison: if you want to see it, go to our website. leon: go see the video. it's just as good as the panda. alison: very funny. while we are talking about the animals just because the zoo will be closed for another day, doesn't mean you have to wait to see the animals having fun. leon: zoo has been tweeting out pictures now. check this out. the north american river otter. having no trouble staying warm. the fur repels water.

alison: pretty cool. tian tian isn't the only panda having fun, too. because the zoo posted this video of boo bao bao eating sugar cane on sugar. leon: the red panda there enjoying the lunch outdoors. he has no problem staying warm. alison: he is a rascal, too. the one that escaped. finally murphy the i i kimoto dragon stayed in the warmth of his eninclude sure. leon: they are not accustomed to the snow. some folks were stuck inside all weekend long. they tried to escape it as well. but some stayed inside too long. alison: oh, boy. jeffrey perez recreated tian tian's now famous video. wearing an old halloween costume. at one point perez challenges the giant panda to a snow battle. perez plans to take the family to the zoo when it reopens.

yes, he plans to wear the panda suit. leon: yeah. and he tried to put his foot in his mouth just like tian tian did and now he is in traction. alison: yeah. leon: suburban hospital right now. after trying to pull off that move. alison: not as flexible as tian tian. leon: no. [laughter] alison: very funny, though. these are people with lots of time on their hands right now. leon: they got nothing else to do. alison: why not? leon: if you are at home right now you got nothing else to do, go in the clot and dig out a halloween costume. you were with us all weekend. we saw folks wearing all kind of costumes walking up and down the street. steve: remember the cow? milkshake, milkshake the cow. go figure. this is the vienna igloo. looking nice out there thanks to chris morales. this is the real deal. it looks good. a lot of cold air in place to keep the igloo in place for another few days or so.

leesburg at 32. winchester at 32 degrees. we move through the overnight hours, the clouds will continue to increase. with the increased clouds it will keep the temperatures up. so instead of looking at the single digits tomorrow morning we will see the temperatures in the upper 20's. clark of snowshowers late evening hours. wednesday morning it would not be surprised. it won't amount to a lot. it's out of here and the skies clear. they will stay on the cool side. daytime highs make it to 45 degrees. we will sea the evening showers develop.

it will compress the snow. seven-day outlook showing the daytime temperatures in the upper 30's on wednesday. 36 on thursday. moving through the next seven days look at that. 45 on saturday. around 50 on sunday. middle 50's on monday next week. our next best chance for heavier rain middle of next week. head to erin. erin: thank you, steve. our producer keith abernathy caught this skier from his hotel room skiing down wilson boulevard in arlington. that is one way to get around. in a costume it might have been better. but that guy was outdone by a film maiker in new york city. he is flying, too. he goes by nypd. they were okay with it.

i suggested it even but i halt it might be

alison: well, this tractor-trailer stuck on wilson boulevard in rosslyn outside the studios this morning. the driver was there a few hours until the truck could finally be towed away. trucks like that, of course, vital to help keep stores on the inventory on a regular basis. leon: that is right. when you get record-breaking snow, shutting down the city, businesses can take a real major hit when that happens. kellye lynn takes a closer look at the snowstorm's impact on the local retailers as they try to open up the doors today and welcome back customers. kellye: moving the snow was the first order of business at the people supply hardware store in hyattsville where shovels are sold out. on the first day back in business after the storm, expectations are low. >> the snow hurts our main business.

>> we do maybe a third of business we the normally. >> the newton food mart closed the doors if for the entire weekend. it resulted in a loss of 25% of the store's weekly sales. items in demand right before the blizzard stuck had yet to be restocked. need a half gallon of milk? there are only four containers left. the owner says the supplies don't arrive soon he will have to get them himself. snowstorms can be damaging for the businesses. one study quantified the economic impact of a one-day snow-related shutdown for retail sales. the cost in virginia, $56 million. in maryland, more than $36 million. >> we probably ended up doing half to 75% of what we normally do on those which is better than zero. justin, the owner of the bake shop in clarendon stayed open in the blizzard even though his supplies were low. >> a skeleton crew. we put out a skeleton line-up.

but we got stuff out. kellye: although the shelves are still under stock he plans to keep baking what he can until deliveries arrive. in clarendon, kellye lynn, abc7 news. alison: all right. that is dedication right there. that is it for "abc7 news at 5:00". but our continuing coverage of digging out 2016 continues right now at 6:00. announcer: now, "abc7 news at 6:00". on your side. maureen: signs of progress in the region-wide effort to dig out of an historic winter storm. leon: in the past hour we learned the d.c. government will be open tomorrow on time. that is the first local government to make that kind of announcement about the plans. d.c. public schools will be joining the other major school districts and closing tomorrow. they say they aim to reopen on wednesday. we also now learn the storm and the aftermath claimed 37 lives on the east coast. maureen: at least four people died in our area. the big effort continues to

reopen the local roads. we have team coverage of the efforts to return to normal. we will check in with all the reporters in a few minutes. metro is taking big steps to get back to regular service. already 77 of the 91 rail stations are open. getting back to 100% will take some time. stephen tschida begins tonight from the storm watch team coverage. what is the latest? stephen: maureen, metro is making headway as far as getting back to full service. earlier today, limited underground service. but as the day progressed, it expanded above ground to all the stations. not quite all the way there yet. but real progress. snow removal efforts paying off big-time. >> that takes up to 79 open stations of the 91. >> also restored on the green line. >> i am excited. i have been in