patches of the light snow. some of this is reaching the ground. but when the bulk passes overhead we find snow through the area. steve rudin in stormtrak7 in ashburn. steve: [no audio ] >> we are in the snow track in frederick. this is 85 heading to frederick. the roads are pretreated a few moments ago. my coworker sail talked to the state

they are not deploying in earnest until 8:00 tonight. you can see in the distance, that is not snow. that is clear sky in the distance. we are not flurries at the moment. they have pretreated the roads heavily. they are ready when it starts. pretreatment helps for a while but they will put the trucks out to keep roads moving well as the evening goes on. reporting live, i'm tom roussey, abc7 news. alison: tom, thank you very much. we all know it doesn't take much during a commute to cause major problems. look at this on 66. although that is always tough this time of day. let's check in with jamie sullivan for the latest. jamie: a lot of heavy traffic. 66 heading outbound bumper to bumper delays. this is not because of the weather. this is just the typical afternoon. maybe a few people left early to try to avoid any of

weather coming in. that is why we are seeing so much congestion. around the capital beltway, both the givener loop and the outer loop heavy. inner loop north from mcclain to montgomery county. from the outer loop to tolfree to get in annandale. here is what we have with the slowing in d.c. under 30 minutes from the 11 street bridge. closer to national harbor. 270, the northbound stretch. a lot of red closer to clarksburg. we don't have accidents on the interstates now. i want to check in with richard reeve near the beltway and 66 in mobiletrak7. what are you seeing, rich? richard: we are heading northbound. the traffic is moving along well. there is pretreatment on the roads. the traffic is moving

some folks might have left early thinking there are issues there. we passed by 66. for now the commute seems okay. back to you. larry: thank you. sign up for text alerts at wjla.com/text. alison: breaking news out of charles county to tell you about where a school bus crashed and was on its side. it happened at brian town road and leonardtown road. the accident involved a bus and a car. here is the video, the still picture rather of if scene. five people suffered minor injuries. we are told there was one student attendant and a driver on board at the time. two people in the car. our anna-lysa gayle on the way to the scene. we have more details as soon as she gets t

larry: now a developing story out of prince george's county where the f.b.i. raided the liquor board headquarters this morning. four people face charges including two board members. brad bell is live with the latest. brad: i have been going through the court documents over the last couple of hours or so. affidavit from the f.b.i. and they include the scripts of phone calls that the f.b.i. intercepted. it reads like a cheap movie. elected officials, pointed officials. scheming about how they can get bribes. we learn that the f.b.i. has been listening for years. >> we operate below the surface. we emerge only when necessary. brad: today the f.b.i. surfaced in a big way. raided liquor stores and the office of the p.g. liquor board. agents combing files and arresting board

anuj sud and the administrator david sun. both charged with bribery and for. the owners of palmer liquor and central avenue liquors also arrested. >> these men conspire to trade votes for mon. the government is not supposed to work that way. is our job to hold accountable public officials and the citizens engaged in that sort of corruption. brad: at the afternoon press conference, the u.s. attorney and others made clear the roundup is not over. court documents allege a state senator and delegate accepted bribes to help pass a law allowing sunday sales. both names will be made public before the sliver session opens next week. >> it's not tolerated. the days are over in prince george's county. we will hold accountable those who feel that is

the allegations they actively sold the vote and the influence in annapolis. we will officially learn their names next week. brad bell, abc7 news. alison: thank you. only on 7 claims that a local restaurant manager waiting to head to trial on an attempted rape charge was working as an uber driver. montgomery county reporter kevin lewis is live in potomac. you have new information since we saw you at 4:00. >> i just got off the phone with an uber spokeswoman. she now tells me the driver is no longer using and allowed to be on its app.

he was prepping food and that is when he snapped. 6:45 a.m. at the california tortilla in potomac. manager leone allegedly grabbed a female employee and dragged her flailing body to the bathroom saying he wanted to "make love." police say store surveillance cameras caught the violent attack which ended when another employee showed up for work. the chain fired him they say but we learned today the 40-year-old has since been driving for uber despite the pending attempted rape, assault and the false imprisonment case. >> that is a scary thing he is still a driver for uber. kevin: he lives next to him. >> i think uber has to do hard background checks on this guy and any of the potential employees. >> in may we reported on a man

violent crimes and was still driving for uber. he has since been fired. >> that is disgusting. >> is uber customer mary kennedy speaks for many women. >> of course if there is somebody behind the wheel not upstanding citizen, that is scary. if i'm trapped in a car with him for god knows how long. kess around -- kevin: around 1:00 i spoke to leon by telephone and he told me he was driving for uber and enjoyed doing so. but in last 15 minutes uber telling us it fired the 40-year-old from the platform. presumably because we brought it to their attention earlier today. we are live in potomac, i'm kevin lewis, abc7 news. larry: thank you, kevin. a man behind bars after leading police on a chase while an infant was in the backseat. virginia state troopers say around 8:45 last night, 234-year-old branden dixon trying to elud

he tried to take an exit and slammed into a police cruiser before hitting a wall. the infant was treated for serious injuries but will be okay. dixon faces felony charges. alison: the man accused of shooting up a northwest d.c. pizza shop was in court today. judge granted request of edgar welch's lawyers and sealed what they found on the cell phone. he pleaded guilty to firing a rifle at comet ping pong after a fake news article linked the place to hillary clinton and child sex slaves. larry: today member of the intelligence community were grilled about the russian hacking of the u.s. presidential election. barack obama was also briefed on the report. jonathan elias is at the "live desk." jonathan: president obama ordered a review a month ago. he was briefed today. president-elect trump will be briefed tomorrow. it'

with the president-elect, one day after he tweeted support for julian assange's claim that assange did not get the hacked d.n.c. e-mails from the russians. jonathan: we'll keep you updated. larry: thank you. today the president elect inauguration committee unveil what the tickets will look like for the inauguration which is 15 days away from today. alison: we learned the president elect will appoint dan coats as the director of the national intelligence. he retired after 16

the senate. today the president-elect trump gave videotape deposition. he and the chef are suing after the chef canceled plans to open a restaurant there after trump's comments about mexicans in the campaign. larry: former congressman tom perriello says he plans to run for governor of virginia. he will face ralph northam in june. perriello was elected to congress in 2008 and voted out in 20130 is seen as more liberal than northam. alison: coming up at 5:00. >> i have 20 or more. most i don't remember. alison: yep. he is talking about passwords. by this time next year all the passwords could be a thing of the past. "7 on your side" to explain how.

there seems to be confusion about an july date to one of the policies -- update to one of the policies. amy aubert has that coming up. larry: what parents can do to make sure kids can eat peanuts without worrying about allergies. alison: the redskins are not

we are back with good news about the chesapeake bay. they say the bay's water quality is the best it has been in decades. the populations of rock fish, oysters, blue crab are all on the rebound. the group is giving them a c-minus in the state of the bay report. since the highest score was 1998. larry: district's clean riverrers project celebrating a major milestone. d.c. water finished drilling a tunnel as part of a network deep under washington designed to contain sewage overflows. today, mike carter-conneen watched as the crews hoisted that massive drill above ground. mike: over the past year, ten stories below the surface, a tunnel boring machine. this is nicknamed "nanny" drilled 12,500 feet from rfk stadium to poplar point south of nats ballpark. part of the 13-mile tunnel

like temporary storage tanks holding and diverting storm water run off for treatment at blue plain. >> 75 to 80 times a year we have raw sewage overflows in the rivers. that will be mitigated by 96% overall. 92% on the anacostia. mike: before the big dig nanny was visited by joe biden, blessed by cardinal woerl. they have started to disassemble it. the cutter lifted in the sky. weighing 90 tons. roughly it equals weight of 18 african elephants. in all the machine is longer than a football field. creating a tunnel 23 feet in diameter. >> the tunnel itself is larger than the normal metro tunnel.

we are deeper! they lined the tunnel with cement. >> it's designed to prevent any issue like sinkholes. >> d.c. water says the 10-year, $2.6 billion project is on budget and on time. portions could become operational as soon as march 2018. mike carter-conneen, abc7 news. alison: 7 on storm watch after bulldozers had to be brought in clear out some of the snow in fort collins, colorado. this is drone footage of what the snow looks like in dayton, ohio. larry: neat. we're curious as we look at this. the obvious question what are the chances our area looks like this come morning? alison: right. doug: we can't see how much. but the system is having the same effect in the areas that it goes across. kentucky, ohio,

northern suburb, a couple of inches like that with the snow covered grass and the mostly clear roadways are the way to work out. alison: we will see what happens with the morning activities. alison: the problem is even though the roads are pretreated the temperatures by morning are below freezing. there could be slick spots on the roadways. they won't be snow covered and inpassable but they are slippery. that is the concern. all the areas in purple are the areas that are under a winter weather advisories in effect until 5:00 tomorrow morning.- next costal storm develops saturday. the computer model run and seem to push snow farther north and farther north. we keep an eye on it. we have a cloudy forecast here saturday with

tonight the first measure rabble snow. one to two inches st of metro and an inch or less. temperatures are above freezing in the city. but places west are at or below freezing. i will continue. once the snow starts it will drop temperatures another couple degrees as well. we will see the numbers go to freezing by 9:00. that is when we think 8 to 9:00 is when steadier snow move in the area. this is a fast mover. the bulk of the snow to the west. it's not a continuous area. there is a break in the snow. hier patches than others. that will advance eastward later tonight. that is how we pick up the accumulation. the future cast, consistent in the timing suggests we have the bands of snow come through the area. this is centered at 10:00 tonight. heavier burst of snow to midnight or after. by 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning it is out of here. early in the morning the skies clear. partly sunny skies through the daym to. temperatures are colder. the mid-30's.

developing over the weekend. colder temperatures are going to keep whatever snow we have around for a day or two before it melts away. again, the snowfall totals were forecast from the weather center, one to go inches in the area under the advisories. dusting to an inch for the metro area. farther south and the east you go tonight and tomorrow morning the lesser amounts you are likely to see. we get to an interesting future cast for the second storm. this is midnight tonight where according to this model you will see snow across the area, moves out of the picture. the same picture tomorrow morning clearing skies. if we draw back a bit. as we clear out it's interesting tomorrow afternoon off the coast of north and south carolina as a sizable storm takes shape. this is expected to spread large area of snow for south carolina, georgia, north carolina, south central virginia, lower by a and the eastern storm. all through it, it leaves most of the snow south and east of the metro area. this is close enough to keep an extra sharp eye on

if this model turns out correct we will go partly sunny here and breezy and cold on saturday afternoon. sunny and colder for the day on sundays. the winter storm warnings. watching to the southeast of the washington area. looking ahead, we have the clearing skies tomorrow. cloudy and cold. 30 degrees on saturday. only 28 degrees on sunday. the extended outlook shows temperatures coming right back up by next week. we will see the showers possible tuesday night, wednesday, then it warms up for 47 to 50 friday of next week. upper 40's next weekend. the way it shapes up now. doug: we will get through it. alison: bookstores may be suffering but one owner seems to have found a way to keep even more customers away. larry: you have to hear this. this is a good story. also we will explain how and tell you why the science matchups between cap and blue jackets is get something much attention.

and local shelter is hoping to get them a home together. i'm ryan hughes with the story coming up. alison: but first a look at what is coming up tonight on abc -- alison: now veronica johnson with a preview of tomorrow's "good morning washington." >> thank you, alison. tomorrow on "good morning washington" we are live across the dmv with stormtrack 7. snow track 7 and mobiletrak7. the first of the season's snowfall, slippery roads and school delays. the impact on the morning commute. >> stay with us for traffic and weather every ten minutes tomorrow starting early at 4:00 a.m

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larry: this is the best commercial you will see all day. the atlanta area animal shelter selling their cats like used car salesman it features everything. guy with a cheap suit showcasing the cat's neat tricks. but the best part is the woman acting like the wacky, inflatable car lot balloon. alison: says they are self-cleaning. larry: and they are. alison: they are unlikely pairing. larry: a dog share a unique bond. alison: rambo and lady and they do everything together. the shelter is desperate to

>> good boy. >> there will more than 200 animals up for adoption inside the montgomery county animal services and adoption center. but no two share the same bond. >> he is more mellow and laid back than she is. that is why they work well together. >> rambo is reserved but lady likes to be the star of the show. >> they enjoy people. >> rambo is a boxer, weigh 60 pounds. little lady weighs 12 pounds. they are brother and sister. they do everything together. >> we are looking to place them in a forever home together. >> the pair brought in a week ago by a family with five kids. >> they came to us because the owners were unable to continue

>> rambo is 7 and lady is about 1. the shelter showed this page to scend rate interest. both dogs are given a clean bill of health from the vet and ready to go. >> he is healthy and going on to better things. >> friendship comes in all shape and sizes. ryan hughes, abc7 news. alison: that is so cute! they are side-by-side. larry: yeah. c'mon, the girls use pets. alison: no. no. i can't take care of two pets right now. larry: okay. alison: but that is adorable. after people see the video they can't resist. >> how can you resist? c'mon. make the phone call. alison: all right. we will let you know what happens. still ahead on "abc7 news at 5:00". play time is over. we will tell you what is

obamas built for their daughters after moving in the white house. larry: later, do you feel like you have a million passwords? "7 on your side" to make them a thing of the past. alison: storm watch 7 team is out tracking the winter weather alerts that is moving in the areas. snow track, storm track mobile track. we have them all out there on the roads tonight. we'll have a check of the forecast as soon as we come back. a reminder you can log on to wjla.com to sign up for the snow closings, delays and get text alerts right there. so, mr. harris, we have your fingerprints on the safe. a photo of you opening the safe. a post using the hashtag "#justrobbedthesafe" so, what are we supposed to think?

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steve: i'm abc7's steve rudin in ashburn, virginia, with stormwatch7. we are tracking and waiting for snow tonight. the latest is what we have in terms of the winter weather advisory. northern montgomery county to western loudoun county and frederick, western maryland. the areas that are likely to see the amount of snow. we are not looking at the significant snow totals across the area. head to southern maryland, st. mary's county, winter storm watch. not for tonight that is for saturday. look at the forecast through the overnight hours. the temperatures will fall 25 to 32 degrees. dusting upward of

snow. the forecast tomorrow as quickly as the snow arrives. high around 35 degrees. in a few minutes doug hill will be in but first back inside to the warm studio and larry smith. larry: that's right. stay warm. upload your pictures to burst.com/wjla. alison: how do you look so awake? i don't know how you do it. larry: makeup and lighting. alison: there you go. ice on the road is no fun. but in china it's used to create amazing sights. look how beautiful this is. this is one of the world's largest festivals drawing a million visitors. it fe

animals, cartoon characters and the famous land marks. one of the main attractions is this. 1100 foot ice slide. china state media said it took 500 people to build it. larry: update to a national park service policy is causing a stir. now amy aubert explains the m.p.s. trying to clear up misconceptions. immigration and naturalization amy: update to park service policy for donation and fundraising. there were misconceptions that we can commercialize the parks or advertise the parks. it can't hill. amy: he says it provides guidance to employees on how to go about doing philanthropic work with the national park service. >> when folks hear about naming or naming rights they think of say baseball stadiums or the football stadiums. they see the quiben stadium or something like -- quicken stadium or something like that. that wouldn't ever happen with a national park where it would

amy: he says you might see thank you to the donors on posters. similar to what they use for the 2016 centennial campaign. he says they could also have a donor wall inside visitor centers. >> you may see them on a thank you say for annexability. like what you would see at -- thank you for exhibit. >> peep want to have a place to go and escape noise of advertisement. >> kristen with public citizen a consumer advocacy organization says their group presented with a petition for 200,000 signatures. >> rather than this unique place of solitude and commercial free existence, they won't have it anymore. amy: amy aubert, abc7 news. alison: the swing set that the

when they moved in the white house has a new home. the first family paid to have it installed in 2009. when first daughters were 7 and 10. all the white house will say now is the set was donated to a local organization. serving those in need. we are working to find out the name of the group and we will let you know when we do. larry: nice gift. well, the owner of a london bookstore is getting nasty reviews from the customers because steve bloom started charging people 50 cents to because around -- 50 pence. that is 62 cents in the u.s. he collects the fee to find out if people are serious about buying books and not looking for place to come in from the cold. he says he rarely collects the fee but it is not stopping a flood of complaints about what customers call his rudeness. alison: it has to be affecting business. people won't stop in to look around now if they have to pay. larry: right. i'm sure there are other stores on that block where y

can walk in and get in out of the cold and you are not going to buy a book. books are flying off the shelves these days. we don't have these to read books on. alison: entice people in. larry: anything. alison: coming up on "abc7 news at 5:00" today -- what doctors say that parents can do for the children to prevent peanut allergies. >> a look at how your tax dollars are being spent to improve your commute. look across northern virginia at the p

alison: "7 on your side" now when health matters. it's something all parents worry about, the children developing allergies. the national institute of health just released new guidelines. these are really important. this is about preventing peanut allergies which are so common these days. the n.i.h. recommend most infants be introduced to peanuts before they turn 1 year old. it's a big change. it says it should lower chance of developing allergy to the food but ask your doctor before you make the change.

she left to escape outbreak of the ebola virus. the husband is still there. she is thrilled to receive this van. >> i know i can no longer go to the bus. alison: coming up at 5:00 -- erin: the capitals hope to knock blue jackets off the 16-game winning streak. we have a live report later in sports. >> we all have them, hate them and can't keep up or remember them. what if i told you we could say goodbye to pass

larry: a pet peeve we all have. passwords. how do you have? can you remember all of them? yeah. "7 on your side" troubleshooter horace holmes joins us now with good news. we may seeing the end of the passport. do tell. horace: that is right. thanks to a

this past season, 120 million consumers shopped online. 28 million using the smartphones but at checkout one-third abandon the virtual shopping carts because they couldn't remember the passwords. in the feature you will still use your phone to shop but the password will likely be lost in cyber space. we use them for everything we do from purchasing a gift online to taking out cash at a bank. and for most of us like the old woman who lives in a shoe we have so many passwords -- >> i probably have 20 or more. most of them i don't remember. horace: -- we don't know what to do. >> they complex. frustrating. >> easy to break in to. >> ihave an iphone 6. fingerprint changed my life. i use it for everything. that is great. horace: the dream has come true thanked to the corporation of cyber security company. it helped the government secure border, allow financial institutions to verify the identities o

and perform background checks on every u.s. airport worker using biometrics. >> human factors that are uniquely you. >> c.e.o., thomas. >> the ridge line on your finger. the structure of your face. horace: captured. they claim it will make the password go the way of the dinosaur. >> look at the screen. blink once. that is all you need. >> you just need smartphone and sensor to authenticate it. you are the new passport. >> they don't have to remember anything. >> you're asking is it safe? absolutely. he claims that the biometric technology is proven to be successful authenticating identities in the cyber security area for a decade. companies like usaa financial institutions use it, mastercard rolling it out for the customers for this year. i would say the password may go

>> i would try it. alison: i hate it. you get lock it out and try again. i like the face you made, too. >> can i use your face, that expression on mine? >> you'd get in my bank account. alison: good to see you. thank you. get a check of the roadways, jamie sullivan on traffic watch. any issues? looks like it. jamie: i know! this is a rough spot for us outbound on 66. the thing is this is not because of a crash. this is typical. the heaviest delay for you on 66. from the beltway to fairfax. past that point you get a nice break. you loosen up. the inner loop and

loop in the northwest corner. districts, the freeway is heavy. southbound d.c. 259, 23 minutes is the average from 11 street bridge continuing to national harbor. you can get a look on the inner loop of how much heavy traffic we have. the weather not impacting the drive around the beltway or leaving the d.c. area working your way out. it's just going to be a lot of that heavy traffic right now that we are used to. look at what we have. back to you. alison: okay. thank you. meanwhile, "7 on your side" with a consumer alert. after nine straight weeks of increases, mortgage rates are down today. the average 30-year fixed rate loan retreated more than a tenth of a point to 4.2%. that bench mark rate had been rising each week since the election. larry: well, tuna is a hot commodity. near record auction hauling in big bucks. $632,000 for a 466-pound blue fin

owner of a sushi place in japan got the winning bid. record price tag is more than twice that. alison: tuna king living up to his name. larry: right. fishy tale. alison: good one. larry: sorry. okay. doug hill? alison: can you top that? doug: no. too fishy for me. here is what we have. winter weather advisory until 5:00 tomorrow morning north and west of the metro area. the blue colors at the bottom right of the screen, winter storm watch for saturday. secondary storm that hasn't formed yet. i will. it has a big impact on the southern states. not for us. what do we expect here? after 9:00 or so tonight we expect the bands of steady snow to move in from the west and area north and west of the washington that is where there is the biggest impact. metro, there is snow and slick spots here and there. by 10:00 tonight, the computers are modeling if lines or the bands of snow. that is where we pick up acumulation. especially to

access is moving northeast. by 3:00 in morning, boom, done. temperatures continuing to fall in the mid-to-upper 20's there will be slick spots and the icy spots through the early morning hours and part of the morning commute. use caution and give yourself extra time. "good morning washington" starts at 4:00 a.m. to keep you up to date. there may be school delays over part of the viewing area as well. sunshine will be the story by tomorrow afternoon. before that happens, one to two inches. metro south and east a dusting to an inch of snow for this element coming. moderate area of snow. we are intending to bring the movement farther north. this is what the future cast says now. by 6:00 a.m. saturday snow across southern maryland, a lot of virginia and moves up the coast and offshore. we will watch the modeling for tonight and tomorrow and tomorrow nit

stays there or ships north. we think the most we will see now in the metro area may be the chance of a flurry activity saturday morning. otherwise the big story for the rest of the week, cold temperatures. gusty winds as we head through sunday and monday. that is it. alison, larry? alison: okay. thank you. well, you know a big night for the caps. erin hawksworth is live at verizon center. larry: at the center of it all. before we get to hockey, redskins making big news today. erin: that is right. we are not surprised that this happened. when the redskins didn't make the playoffs, someone has to take the blame. as a result the skins decided to part ways with the defensive coordinator joe barry. i don't think he deserved all the blame. he didn't have a ton of players with a lot of talent besides josh norman to work with but that is the nature of the nfl. i begin -- i remember at the beginning of the season i remember he ruse criticizing for not using norman to cover

but in the end they finish with 28th ranked defense. that san area they want to fix this off-season. back here at the verizon center, the caps have a chance to prevent the blue jackets from making a little bit of history. blue jackets are riding a 16-game winning streak. if they make it 17, that would tie an nhl record but not if the caps have anything to say about it. erin: the capitals are well aware of the columbus streak. >> full for them. they are able to play it and at that level of hockey for this long. >> they are not overly eager to talk about it. >> it doesn't affect me. i work for the washington capitals. erin: how much does the streak and the chance to end it affect the caps motivation heading to tonight? that depends on who you ask. >> maybe some guys, but not to me. it is another game. it's not our streak. it's not

and jealous that they are on a streak. good for them. >> i'm sure we will be excited if we are able to do that. it's not the main motivation. a little side story we can rally around. >> if the guys need it to motivate them, that is fine. i think we are getting the game going in a positive direction. >> our focus is on ourself. playing our game and playing it to 100%. that makes this a tough team to beat. for them to keep the streak going they have to go through us. fun game. erin: perhaps one of the best quotes this morning came from andre who said it will be fun when we end their streak. so, it will be a great atmosphere. it almost feels like a playoff game walking around the verizon center. ja sounds fun. have a good time. larry: rock the red tonight. alison: see you soon. you can call it a bit of patting themselves on the back. larry: when we come back, a look at the progress of the regional projects aimed at improving your

alison: if you ask anyone who drives around here they will give you an earful. transportation reporter brianne carter given a tour of the local projects designed to make it better. brianne: they are popping up all over northern virginia. construction projects designed to improve your commute. this may look like a dirt lot but it will soon house additional commuter buzzes to run along 66. there is an expansion to make room for nine additional bus by as to service more than 130 buses to be used by the fairfax connector and metro bus.

virginia transportation officials say when complete the express lanes like those along 95 will move more people than the regular lanes. >> they will be in higher capacity vehicles like buses and car pools. brianne: all of the projects are generated by the extra taxes approved by the general assembly in 2013. today transportation officials and the legislators out on a tour of northern virginia to check in on the progress. >> now it shifts to the challenges ahead. legislators head back to richmond this month a key piece is about metro. the commission must be approved by mid-february. >> it is helpful. we have work to lay the ground work for things. >> in fairfax, brianne carter, abc7 news. announcer: this is a storm watch 7 winter weather

maureen: right now at 2:00 we have stormwatch7 team coverage throughout the region for a winter weather alert. we will check in with the teams on the ground for maryland and virginia in a moment. tonight school districts across the area have canceled evening activities because of the threat. larry: let's get started with the stormwatch7 chief meteorologist doug hill. when can we expect and how much can we expect? doug: at 9:00 in the metro area for steadiest snow. areas north and west of washington we are under winter weather advisories until 5:00 a.m., an inch or two. one to two inches of snow is what we think. the area lined up here with jurisdictions to the maryland, pennsylvania line to west virginia, that is the best chance of more significant precipitation. storm watch from a separate system to deliver heavy snow through virginia and carolinas. so about this snow. this is what we see to the west. line starting. here we think it's reaching the go

later tonight it will move through the region. 2:00 to 3:00 in the morning we will see most of the precipitation. all of it across the area. a small system and a fast mover. we think it will drop snow on the ground and that is that. 10:30 tonight we have a band of snow. this will move out at 3:00 in the morning and get to sunshine tomorrow. slow temperatures and slippery spots are a concern. let's go to steve rudin where he is hanging out in stormtrak7. steve? steve: it is cold out here, doug! but so far no snow flurries. i correct myself. i see one. one has fallen so far. 31 degrees in falls church. 32 in herndon. you get the point. it's cold enough for snow. we are going to see a little bit of it moving through the overnight hours. night time lows this evening will b