michelle: immigration and custom enforcement called the raids business as usual. but the "associated press" found some incidents where people were arrested in cases where the obama administration opted not to take action. the coast-to-coast raids have many immigrants in our area on edge. as q mccray reports, that has one advocacy group literally going door to door. q: one after another. [knocking] volunteers went door to door. educating undocumented immigrants about their rights. this mother says her 6-year-old came home scared he would be deported back to guatemala. >> we need to get prepared. they are moving pretty fast. q: casa as a group is an advocate for latino and immigrant people in the d.m.v. the goal of this campaign is to get people prepared for the worst. every

pamphlet with everything they need to know. >> knowing your rights means you will remain silent because that is your right not to incriminate yourself. you are not going to sign any document until your attorney is present. q: if you are arrested -- >> you have a point of contact. a person that can handle your affairs if something happens to you, el if you have children. to prepare a power of attorney. q: to casa, concern is more than political. it's a matter of public safety. >> if i'm undocumented and i'm afraid because my style is to talk to police i am going to be less effective in keeping our community safe. q: in hyattsville, q mccray, abc7 news. jonathan: the immigration crackdown has students get a backpack full of letters. three separate letters sent home. one details the right to education regardless of legal status. other deals with school services and the right that students have if i.c.e. agents show up at their home or

trying to ease fears. caught on video, a syrian family seeking asylum in canada, being arrested after crossing the border on saturday. this video showed the family which includeding -- including a toddler. the number of the refugees entering canada from the united states doubled since president trump taken office. michelle: that comes asca canadian prime minister trade trudeau came to washington -- prime minister justin trudeau came to washington. they both pledge to find common ground. >> the l.a. thing -- the last thing canadians expect is for me to come down and lecture another country on how they choose the govern themselves. michelle: among those issues discussed were changes to the trade policy and immigration policy. president trump and prime minister trudeau also attended a ro

workplace. an hour from now, the senate will vote on two more cabinet nominees. treasury secretary nominee steven mnuchin is expected to be confirmed on a party line vote. however, there is bipartisan support for leader of department of veteran affairs. jonathan: a father seeking justice for his daughter is accused of killing an armed man in a parking lot. >> he ran over him with his car. >> this is video shot moments after police say the father ran over a man with his s.u.v. in upper marlboro. if father said that the man pistol whipped his daughter last night. and then they spotted the man this morning and followed him while calling police. police said to back off. when they got to a parking lot, the father said the man pulled out a gun that looked like an a.k.-47 as witnesses watched in horror. >> i understand someone was trying to protect their daughter's interest. didn't have to lead to death. jonathan: abc7 learned th

d.c. firefighter. right now police are questioning everyone who was there and so far no charges have been filed. michelle: roofs blown off. trees downed transformers exploding leaving people in the dark. and in the cold overnight. thousands lost power as a ferocious wind storm slammed the area overnight and into today. you heard a lot of that around town. the sound of clean-up. some parents may have gotten up expected help clean up from the kids. some schools closed or delayed because of power outages. doug: we are 20 minutes from sunset. let's talk about the winds and the temperatures across the area now. we started at midnight with the wind gusts of 72 miles per hour at joint base a

tonight. the only wind gusts at the top of the hour 18 miles per hour in annapolis. 17 at luray. those are the strongest gusts in the area. we are through this event. we will see what is coming up for the next couple of days, the weekend and ten days when i enjoy you outside in ten minutes. jonathan: we will see you then. thanks. happening now, a march is about to get underway in the district. aimed not at the president but at a congressman. the message to congressman jason chaffetz leaving d.c. alone. d.c. bureau chief sam ford live with what is he -- behind this protest. sam? sam: yes, jonathan. we are outside the rayburn building in capitol hill. inside the billing you have a committee meeting. the house oversight committee over with jason chaffetz is the chairman. they are considering a bill that would eliminate the law that d.c. passed in december called death with dignity. they would get rid of it. congress has the power to do that. inside, of course, it is standing room only. outside, peo

because people are trying to get in there. earlier there was a protest rally at spirit park. which is just south of the ray burn building. a number of people came there, protesting the fact that congress is considering overturning one of d.c.'s laws. among the people who spoke was the mayor. she was saying for example when they passed the marijuana law earlier, i guess last year, some of the members of congress, republicans talk about putting her in jail. well, they are fighting other laws this time. now the death with dignity law, here is what she had to say. >> what if they come and try to put your mayor in jail. will you be with us? what if we have to go testify in front of the congress? will you be with us? will you be with our neighbors when the neighbors need help? when are going to have to make sure we stay focused on the values that are important to washington, d.c.

sam: that is mayor bowser. the bill passed 11-2 last year. one of the councilmembers is still on the council. even though she lost, she was opposed to the law. now that the counsel passes it she is opposed to -- now that council passes it, she is opposed to congress overturning the law. this is a step that republicans in congress are taking. reporting live from capitol hill, i'm sam ford, abc7 news. jonathan: thanks. take a look at this. one city says this is the next big thing beating traffic. that is a drone. michelle: don't count out the gondolas yet. jonathan: the dam on the brink. the rush to save

jonathan: water is no longer spilling over the oroville spillway in california. backup spillway on the upper left of the screen. the main spillway on the right is not working now. more than 200,000 people evacuated their homes in nearby communities over fears that the emergency spillway could fail, sending a wall of water downstream. >> this is still a dynamic situation. it is still a situation we are trying to assess the damage. we need to make, we need to have time to make sure that

those areas it's safe to do so. jonathan: engineers started to let water flow over the backup spillway on saturday after a giant hole developed right in the main spillway. michelle: a fire that gutted a research building at virginia tech appears to be accidental. it destroyed the research station. not far from the blacksburg campus last night. no one was hurt. building housed equipment and projects valued at nearly $1.5 million. firefighters say strong winds slowed efforts to put out the fire. jonathan: new video showing more devastation to a 4,000-year-old city. on the left side of the screen here, this is what it look like in palmyra, syria before anything happened as far as the civil war took place. and then what happened with isis. that is after on the right-hand side. you can see that some of the ancient ruins there have been demolished. the fear and the russians, this is coming from the russians, that isis is pushed out of the area they are doing

explosives. isis spent the past few years destroying artifacts that don't fit with the extremist view of islam. michelle: the united nations is considering the next step after north korea weekend missile test. this is new video released today showing the intermediate missile launch that violates unsecurity council resolutions. missiles like the one tested can carry a nuclear warhead and have a 3,000-mile range. that is not far enough to reach the mainland but far enough to hit allies like south korea and japan. jonathan: coming up for us, the future is now. the city that says people will use this drone to fly over traffic by as early as this summer. michelle: plus, a high flying plan in our area grounded. why a gondola did you know slow internet

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michelle: one of jerry sandusky's sons has been arrested charge with suggestion wally assaulting two m

on bail and he has been suspended from his job as a correction officer. his father, former penn states saytant football coach is serving at least 30 years in prison for sexually abusing ten boys. jonathan: well, arlington county is nixing the idea that captured the imagination. flying above the potomac river between georgetown and rosslyn in one of the gondolas would have been kind of cool, right? arlington cooled to the idea. abc7 transportation reporter brianne carter reports this is an idea that is far from sunk. brianne: it has been a hot topic. to try and ease congestion and improve the connection between georgetown and arlington. a $90 million gondola high in the sky over the potomac river. but the burden to get support and funding now shifts to the district after arlington county officials said they don't plan to contribute any further funding to the project. in this letter to the gone low da committee the board chairman says the county already has transportation

which will take priority. just because officials on that side of the river say they are not ready to contribute to the project right now, transportation officials on this side say it doesn't mean that the project is dead. >> we will continue to have the discussions on the d.c. side of the river at the federal level. we are working with the economic development and the business groups. the streetcar supposed to come in. brianne: will with the georgetown business improvement district says with a million more moving to the region in the next ten years the communities need to be closely linked. right now the key bridge serves as the only link with nearly 60,000 cars passing over daily. >> we see buses now. brianne: d.c. circulator, the metro and the arlington county buses working to bridge the gap between existing metro stations. >> we are the starting line on this project. there are a lot of steps to take before we get to it. it is a heavy lift. brianne: in northwest washington, brianne carter, abc7 news. jonathan: abc7 is getting answers on a

why is the inaugural parade review stand still up outside the white house? we checked into that. the national park service told us this. they said the permit for the stand and the removal runs through the end of this month. that by the way is the same time frame as previous inaugurations. michelle: the latest safetrack surge isn't keeping people off metro. the morning's rush was within 1-2% of a normal monday. the latest surge eliminates blue line service for two and a half weeks. >> i have to wake up earlier to make it on timed and make it to the yellow line. michelle: you may wonder how much more time does it add to your commute? abc7's transportation reporter brianne carter found blue line riders in northern virginia who use the yellow line and then switch to the orange or silver line face an added 18 minutes on trains. that doesn't include the time waiting on the platform. jonathan: okay. people in dubai could beat traf

a self-driving hover taxi. dubai leaders say they want the one-man vehicles in the air by this july. this is test video from the hover taxi maker. a tab net inside lets people pick several programmed predestined locations and they can fly at an outlet of 1,000 feet. nobody is flying it. it's like a drone. michelle: 60 miles per hour? jonathan: they say "as the crow flies." nobody is at the controls. i said that, right? michelle: scary. jonathan: would you do it? doug: no. maybe ten years ast when they get it figured out. let's tell you the weather story on nold. the current temperatures from 41 in ashburn and centreville. 43 in clifton. manassas. warrenton is 44. it's not that muc

on the east side of town. cool side in largo is 40. cooler in laurel with 38 degrees. the skies will stay clear tonight. wind gusts at the top of the hour. 21 miles per hour gusts at luray. 18 at annapolis. those are the strongest gusts around the area. the winds are history for us. we have a calm night going through. we have clear skies for a whale but some -- skies for a while but cloudiness through dawn. the temperatures will drop through overnight and settle around the 30 degree mark early in the morning in the metro area. as far as what is happening in the future cast, high pressure is still in control. i will move off thest coof north carolina through the early morning hours. that will keep the winds light. but turn southwesterly flow to the winds. that will help cloudiness on the north side of the high pressure. they will burn off in the afternoon. we will get sunshine at times. pleasant day at 50 degrees. next system is a cold front. weak one in before dawn on wednesday. that could produce a brief period

west. a dry front. we will see cooler air spill in late wednesday afternoon or evening. that is the setup for thursday, which is the coldest day of the week. the breezes 15 miles per hour. 20 miles per hour breeze wednesday afternoon and then it will calm down through thursday, just on the tillly side. clouds in the morning, and then sunshine. we have a milder day and lighter winds. tomorrow evening if you are headed out for valentine's day, it's 49 at 5:00, dropping slowly through the mid-40's later on with the dry conditions and the partly cloudy skies. let's get a look right now at the next ten days. start with the first seven. 51 tomorrow. 51 on wednesday. after the front comes through it could turn cooler by wednesday afternoon. thursday, partly cloudy. cold. 40 degrees. 47 on friday. a warmup over the weekend. 57 on sundays. and also on monday for presidents day and mild for all indianacations through the middle of next week at least. that is the latest.

robert burton, what are do you have to say? robert: i'm talking about nba stuff. buddy hield in an altercation with demarcus cousins. we will talk about that. sports is next. stay with us.

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m.v.p. candidate russell westbrook just salivating after a loss to his former team. and teammate, kevin durant saturday. also, on the o.k.c. team, a couple of former d.m.v. high school stars. jerami grant and victor oladipo. we caught up with victor today and the memories came back. >> we used to come and play high school for the city championship game. we were undefeated in that game. i was cool to reminisce and see the success. they had a lot to do with who we are today. the mantra is gentleman and scholars. that's what we are today. robert: tip-off at 8:00. this is weird. pelicans guard buddy hield gives demarcus cousins a shot to the groin. there was really no reason for it. he wasn't going for the ball or anything. he w

after the game, hield says it wasn't intentional. you can be the judge of that. jonathan: it wasn't intentional? robert: that was weird. inadvertent. maryland falls to 23rd. tough losses. jonathan: he will be ribbed mercilessly for that. robert: he is. michelle: an accident? robert: why did he do it, though? michelle: weird. robert: that is the question. jonathan: trying to take the player out. michelle: all right, doug. we have warm temperatures on the way. doug: yeah. we have a couple of days that are fairly average. then we turn warmer by the weekend. 51 tomorrow. nice weather. clouds in the morning. 50 on wednesday. 40 is a cold day on thursday. steve rudin will be in at 11:00 to talk more about that. michelle: thank you. "world news tonight" with david muir up next. jonathan: thank you for

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