intermediaries about the trump campaign. the trump surrogate and the intermediaries is totally false. michelle: sessions is acknowledging he met with the russianm bass dore but said he -- russian ambassador but said they did not discuss campaign matters. this is hours after trump said he had total confidence in sessions. a few hours ago protesters gathered outside the justice department calling for sessions to re-sign.

michelle: the president's cabinet grew today. the u.s. senate confirmed retired neurosurgeon ben carson as the new secretary of housing and urban development. an hour after carson's confirmation, they voted in rick perry as the secretary of state of energy. perry famously forgot the name of the department in 2012 when listing agencies he would eliminate if elected president. he said eliminating the department would be a mistake since then. president trump spent the day aboard the uss germed r. ford speaking to members of -- gerald r. ford speaking to members of the naver i -- navy. he also discussed an expansion plan to increase the navy. alison: right now police are investigating a threatening e-mail sent to a woman in winchester. michelle: she is the leader of a government watchdog group working to protest president trump's agenda. alison: but as richard reeve reports th

>> it was alarming. i don't alarm easily. richard for lisa holiday, founder of the watchdog group indivisible winchester it began with an e-mail. >> i was disturbed by the language. they were threatening. richard: the e-mail tells her to stop what she was doing. >> be assure our message will be delivered cold and perhaps publicly. richard: the message came days after the group's first public meeting. a hundred people attend and local paper covered the story that included her name. at one point they said if you elect to ignore what i said there is a price to pay, which i'm sure you will regret. the clark county sheriff office is investigating to find the e-mail source. to see if it reaches the level of a criminal act. >> it may not be a threat but they are trying to

threats and in your voice confrontations. >> i have never seen a climate that is so hostile. >> he believes in the president but the threats are wrong. >> holiday, a registered republican insists the group isn't anti-trump but is reanalysis tant to the trump@ -- resistant to the trump agenda. >> i'm not going to be bullied or hide. alison: police are back out searching for haun remains at a alexandria park. they searched today as the shocked neighbors were looking on.

down but -- metro ridership is down but more than other places. brianne carter is live to explain why. brianne: we know this happened in a time with the safetrack was also happening in this same area. but we also don't know what the factors are that played into all of this. where did many of the rider goes? one thing we know is less people were coming and going from this station. a stark shift in ridership at a metro station. according to new numbers, the vienna station saw a 41.2% ridership decline the last three months of 2016. >> that seems like a big dropoff. brianne: stations across northern virginia saw numbers closer to the system wide decline of 6 to 12%, the dunn loring station saw three times that. overall 29% fewer riders were on the orange line. >> i was riding it at 9:00 in the morning and nobody was on

orange line had two safetrack surges both including around-the-clock single tracking. keyshawn rides the orange line every day and says he is stim getting on crowded trains -- still getting on crowded trains. >> it's surprising. brianne: know something many who rely on the rails to get around town he believes the numbers will rebound. >> i don't believe it will go down. i believe ridership will go up. brianne: this will be something that the board will again address as they try to close the budget gap for next year. reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. michelle: "7 on your side" during your commute. go to wjla.com/text to sign up for text alerts. we will let you know anytime there is a problem slowing down metro. alison: the sites slowed over a typo? the surprising reason behind the internet headaches this week. michelle: the first lady marking read across america in classroom today.

to a group of children. doug: sunny and a breezy thursday will lead to a cold and a breezy friday with maybe snowshowers and flurries believe it or not. we will talk about the impacts, when it will come, when it will leave and the weekend, too, coming up next at "abc7 news at 6:00".

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michelle: scary threats and now a man is behind bars. the man threatened to kill his wife and son and blow up buildings across montgomery county. among the targets a daycare. the man hasn't been identified at this time. abc7 was there when he was taken into custody in rockville. officers believe this started because of a battle over child custody. seven baltimore police officers face charges tonight. the counts range from robbery to drugs to filing false reports and lying on time sheets. q: the officers started the court appearances. amy aubert has more. amy: today, six of the seven officers are to remain behind bars until trial. five pleaded not guilty requesting jury trials. the judge ordered the six to appear today be held in detention until the trial date. in

witnesses have been terrified from retribution from the officers and the others and added the community would be at risk if let go. the six were escorted out in handcuffs. the detention hearing for the seventh officer is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. alison: thank you. drivers using beach drive, detour is longer than expected. the national park service says the closure between rock creek and tilden street has been extended through august. they planned for the work to wrap up for late spring. this is just phase one of what will be a three-year reconstruction project. michelle: a second traffic alert. intersection of canal and fox hall road will be closed for five weeks. that starts march 13 because of a water valve replacement project.

clean-up effort after yesterday's swift storms. we are surveying the damage and a big job ahead. michelle: the gift for the white house press corps. a famous actor sent them a coffee maker and a special note. the a-list gifter next. ♪ ♪

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announcer: you're watching "abc7 news at 6:00". on your side. alison: pennsylvania avenue is back open to pedestrians in front of the white house. the last pieces of fence that blocked off the area for the inauguration were removed yesterday. that was the deadline for the inauguration committee to have that area back open. michelle: the white house press corps got a gift today from one of hollywood's biggest hollywood names -- from one of the biggest hollywood names. tom hanks sent it today. this is the third expresso machine the actor sent the press corps since 2004. alison: apparently he visited and said they need more caffeine. michelle: they are

overtime. they will take good use of it. amazon says a typo was to blame for this week's shutdown of the cloud computing services. it happened in what should have been a routine debugging of amazon's billing system. amazon said someone typed a command incorrectly and instead of shutting down a few servers, the command shut down many more. the system needed a full restart that took five hours. alison: well, as you know the sun was back out today. as ryan hughes reports these are not easy tasks. ryan: it's clean-up mode in kensington. the quick moving and the powerful storm toppled trees and crushed home. >> we are booked up. we have three crws

busy more than ever. ryan: service and unlimited tree and stump removal process working around the clock. they sent hours removing the huge tree that came crashing through the roof of the home on parkwood court. a family was inside but luckily no one was hurt. >> it mains and then the high winds topples the trees over. it causes disaster. ryan: also causing disaster in silver spring. another tree collapsing and crushing a home. >> i was looking right over that way. so then i could see when the tree just went crashing right down on the house. ryan: tree removal companies have a big job ahead after an unusual winter with severe thunderstorms but they are seeing a pattern. officials say a lot of the trees that they are cleaning up are already dead. take this one for example. the middle is rotting out. making it weak and easy to fall over. >> the best advice? >> go around, chec

look at the trees. check and see if it is dead. >> if it is, cut it down. it could prevent a close call and a costly clean-up next time a severe storm with gusty winds roll through the region. ryan hughes, abc7 news. michelle: great reminder. the winds were so powerful yesterday. alison: and so quick. but you see all the damage left behind so quickly. so then, snow tomorrow. [laughter] what is next? doug: you couldn't write this story. back when we did the winter forecast we said we would have, you know, much less snow than average. how would we have guessed it would be like this? it's nuts. so here is our story now. we have gone from the system change. summer weather on wednesday, kind of spring-like weather today. back to winter tomorrow. beautiful sunset out there. the sun has been down for ten or 12 minutes. gorgeous colors. it will stay quiet tonight. late tonight and overnight, clouds will start to move in. temperatures wi

only in the 30's across most of the area. 47 at reagan national. wds out of the west at 20 miles per hour. it feels like 40. a chill in the air. winds diminish later tonight. hour by hour we go through the late night and the overnight. in the downtown area by tomorrow at 7:00, 36. it may be closer to freezing in a few areas north and west of the district. coming next. a couple of areas of low pressure. one is more spread out. that is causing snowshowers. but none of it is making it east of the mountains now. however, alberta clipper, a name that weather nerds, nerd speak for a little low pressure area, compact low that zips out of canada and across the u.s. we have one of those coming here tomorrow. that is going to churn out flurries around snowshowers. even though the air temperatures will be in the 40's because a a couple of thousand feet up where it's manufactured it will be below freezing. snowshowers in spots but i don't think it has impact. the future cast from the stormwatch7 weather center shows tomorrow morning we

western suburbs. temperatures above freezing. don't think it has an impact other than psychological impact. gusty winds, too. temperatures fall in 30's in the afternoon and that with the wind will drive wind chills to the 20's. that is chilly. colder tomorrow night with the clearing skies. wind chills tomorrow evening in the mid-20's across the area. when you get up early saturday morning the wind chills will be in the teens. breezy and a sunny day on saturday. highs in the low 40's. wind chills probably in the lower 30's throughout the day if you have outdoor plans but it feel milder on sunday. highs about 47. monday a warm front approaches. we get back to 60 degrees. showering on tuesday at 67. looking ahead to wednesday, it will be breezy again. with another cold front. 63 for a high. we get to the end of the week, warmup close to 60. the average high by next weekend will be in the lower 50's. we will be above

end is a clock representing the change back to daylight saving time next saturday night. we will give you dozens if not hundreds of warnings about this before it happens. michelle? michelle: all right. thank you. district officials are expanding the use of the human services buses to accommodate the homeless who will be affected by the m.l.k. library renovation. the buses typically take people to shelters in northeast and southeast but will add a church and a nearby library to that list. the church volunteered bathrooms and basic shelter and the local libraries are adding hardware to accommodate those who typically use an m.l.k. library services. >> i will not eat them -- >> anywhere! alison: well, "star trek" and the "reading rainbow's" levar burton red "sam, i am" today. it is dr. seuss' birthday and read across america day. this

anniversary of the celebration which, of course, encourages children to read more. the first lady melania trump took part in read across america today in the visit with young patients at new york's presbyterian hospital. she read dr. seuss' "the places you will go." she said it was from her personal library. michelle: sweet. nice. q: classic. michelle: it is. great to see the kids excited. of course, when you have the characters show up. erin: absolutely! makes it real. q: exactly. erin: the nats' offense is real. they were swinging for the fences against as rows today and the caps hope to continue streaking at the verizon center. we're go inside the locker room next.

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overlook any team at this point of the season. >> any team that plays us is going to put the best foot forward. there is no easy game. whether it's the young guys working hard to establish themselves or a team that is out or get in. or trying to push for the playoff spot. it's the hockey really picks up and that is perfect for us. we will embrace it and hope to keep building the game. erin: meanwhile, nats and the astros today. washington's offense looks ready for opening day. jayson werth cranks one off the foul pole there in left, solo shot for his first of the spring. later bryce harper launches one to center. that is two for bryce so far. nats power past the astro 13-1 the final. abc7 and newschannel8 the official home of d.c. united. you can see saturday's season opener on newschannel8 starting at 6:30. united will host sporting k.c. we are e

then coming up tonight at 9:00 on newschannel8, it will be a national edition of toyota sports talk with extended interviews with the players from spring training. we will have some fun. michelle: i look forward to that. west pall looks great. especially -- west palm looks great. especially when we are talking about snow. alison: it won't stick though. doug: no. too warm for that. snowshowers west of the mountains will move in at times tomorrow. not everyone will see them. if you don't see a snowshower you will see sunshine at time or two. steve is timing out the snowshowers for tomorrow and looking ahead to the weekend. he will update the forecast. we are calling for low to mid-40's over the weekend with sunshine. get new computer guidance tonight to update out on that when he sees you at 11:00. alison: very good. michelle: "world news tonight" with david muir up next. alison: join us at 11:00. i hope you have a great evening.

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tonight, several breaking stories. president trump's attorney general, jeff sessions under fire. recusing himself from any investigations linked to the trump campaign, denying reports he lied at his senate confirmation hearing about having contact with the russian ambassador twice before the election. tonight, explaining his two meetings with the russian ambassador. the fighter jets buzzing the american destroyer. uss porter. what the pentagon is saying. the deadly chase. the disturbing video now emerging. the teen pulled from his pickup truck, deputies tasing him, and the deputy with his knee on the young man's neck. why did they meet before cpr? he did not survive. the damaging winds, and