[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] > >> the calm before the storm. most of the area is under a winter storm warning and we are tracking what could be up to one foot of snow in some places. we have live team coverage tonight including a look at the press. let's get started with stormwatch 7 meteorologist josh knight. we just got upgraded to a warning, didn't we? it was for areas off to the west and it now includes the district and a lot of the metro region. clear skies and sunshine, but

weekend and that will be a pretty big player for us when it comes -- comes to getting wintry weather to come through. we need that cold air in place. that is the district. basically, all points to the west is where we have our winter storm warning. , princey in blue george's, anne arundel county, that is still a winter warm watch -- winter stormgeorge's, , that is still a winter warm watch -- winter storm watch. more so a level of confidence. more confident than in these pink areas we will be dealing with accumulating snow they could be quite a mess for some of us. that is for the metro area, especially if we go through dcn off to the west. this low-pressure spinning out, much further out to the west. you can see just getting out of montana into the the coders. that raises across the country for us tonight and by tomorrow night it will be setting off just off the coast. stay nice and quiet

into monday night and tuesday morning, these are the numbers. we will get our bills i -- bullseye closer to frederick. as you head northwest, that is where we will see big numbers. i will have this coming up and timeout the heaviest snow and let you know when we finally have a break, coming up. road crews have had a pretty quiet winter so far, that is about to change. they been out all weekend pretreating the roads, getting ready for the snow heading our way. brianne carter continues our storm watch team coverage live from arlington. you are bathed in sunlight right now. on ater: it is the calm sunday like normal, but hustle and bustle for road crews throughout our region. take a look at the road. us this istell nearly a dozen times already this winter they've had to do just that. with this storm coming, it could be the first time they use the ploughs

anything but a day of rest for busy road crews. >> this will be our first close down storm. reporter: in northern virginia, vdot got an early start mixing the brine used to pretreat more than 5200 live in miles of area roads ahead of this late winter storm. crucial issueys a for us, especially when we look at rush hours. reporter: thousands of crews, some of whom were already working on springtime tasks like tree trimming, will be back in plow trucks tomorrow crucial af, ready for whatever mother nature brings. maryland, a similar scene, with stripes coding lanes. throughout the day crews have been pretreating interstates, primary and secondary roads. once snow starts to fall, more than 2300 pieces of equipment will hit the road. across the region, folks are being urged to take the next 24 hours to make sure they plan ahead.

those road crews will be watching not only accumulations, but the timing of all of this as well. be watchingals will this so they can determine what service changes, if any, are needed to metro bus and rail. brianne carter, abc 7 news. kimberly: to forget metro access, service will stop running at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow and be suspended all day tuesday. when it comes to the rails, metro says it can operate pretty close to normal when there are snow totals between 4 and 6 inches. you may see some delays. always good to check the metro website before you leave the house straight you can stay a step ahead by signing up for our metro alerts at wjla.com/text. feeling the winter blast south of us, too. several inches of snow fell overnight in tennessee and north carolina.

first measurable snowfall in eight years. most had melted by noon. 18 inches of snow are forecast from philadelphia to boston. wet, heavy snow we are talking in this case. that means trees could come down, power outages could happen, wind gusts at 50 miles per hour could cause blizzard conditions of the new england. stay connected as this storm heads our way by following our stormwatch 7 team on facebook, twitter, and wjla.com, and download the stormwatch 7 app for the latest forecast wherever you are. aretonight, police searching for the men responsible for an attack on board a metro train. take a good look. they say this man assaulted someone on a blue line train near metro center. it happened friday night around 8:45 great if you know anything or recognize him, give police a call. they just moved in six months ago but tonight a family of -- a

after a massive fire this morning. you can see significant damage to that house on brougham drive. we're told the fire started under the deck and moved quickly. luckily everyone in that family and their pets made it out safe ly. a man is in critical condition after a fire this morning at a home in bladensburg. it happened around 7:30 in the morning on decatur street. firefighters had to rest to that man as he was rushed to a burn unit. the fire was put out quickly. the possible cause is still under investigation. developing now, the white house has until tomorrow to backup president trump's unsubstantiated claim that he was wiretapped by former president obama. committeeintelligence said that deadline in a letter to the administration. for the second week in and a row, the allegation was a major topic on the sunday morning talk shows. >>

that the charge is true, but i also believe that the president of the united states could clear this up in a minute or the president has one of two choices, either retract or provide the information that the american people deserve. kimberly: so far the white house has refused to give a source, if there is one, for the information behind the president's controversial tweets. the nonpartisan congressional budget office is likely to the costts report on and impact of the republican's obamacare replacement. that report is expected to find millions of americans will lose health coverage if the affordable care act is repealed. the administration is already disputing the cbo's findings. >> i love the folks at the cbo, they work hard, but sometimes we ask them to do stuff they're not capable of doing and estimating the impact of a bill this size isn't the best use of their time. kimberly: the first part of t

opposition from democrats. moderate republicans in the senate and conservatives in both houses who argue it doesn't go far enough in repealing the aca. a heartbreaking investigation up in pennsylvania. the young girl dead after a house fire blamed on a hoverboard that exploded. and that's not where the tragedy ends. police know more tonight and we will have an update when we come back. tomorrow's the day we'll play something besides video games. every day is a gift. especially for people with heart failure. but today there's entresto... a breakthrough medicine that can help make more tomorrows possible. tomorrow, i want to see teddy bait h first hook.

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kimberly: 7 on your side with a consumer alert about a danger we have been tracking for you for 15 months straight a young girl in pennsylvania died after a hoverboard caught fire in her

two other girls are in critical condition. stephanie ramos has more. we can't replace her. deep.in is so reporter: a family devastated. ter diedhes' granddaugh this morning after her harrisburg home went up in flames friday with two other children inside. because, a hoverboard. >> they heard sizzling and crackling in the hoverboard and shortly thereafter, it exploded in flames. shy ofr: she was just her third birthday. firefighters were able to rescue two other children. one girl jumping from a second-floor porch to safety. both in critical condition. [inaudible] death is the latest incident involving the

come under scrutiny by government regulators after spontaneously catching fire. the flaw, battery packs that overheat. >> you always think it won't happen to you. it could happen. i don't think it's worth the risk. reporter: a massive recall is underway for 500,000 of them made by 10 companies after these frightening images, a recall that came too late for mark hughes. >> just be careful with everything you buy. make sure it worked right. reporter: stephanie ramos, abc news, washington. kimberly: one of the firefighters that was responding to that scene was killed by an alleged drunk driver. the lieutenant was a 21 year member of the harrisburg fire department. weather alert, we are tracking a late winter storm heading our way. josh knight has the latest on when the place will start flying -- flakes will start flying at how much you could see where you live, straight ahead. >>

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video tonight-see from the shores of lake ontario. this scene is in rochester, new york where a massive windstorm moved to earlier this week. that combined with freezing new york temps led to this, e-house encased in ice. -- a house encased in ice. if you will live on the water there, i guess you expect it every once in a while. >> no thank you. that is one thing i don't think we will see as much out of this, actual ice. snow, sleet, and rain will be the big things we are watching. kimberly: what about power outages?

are you expecting heavier snow? josh: a lot of heavy, wet snow on these tree limbs straight to make it worse, we are really cold throughout this week. places without power, make sure you are checking on your neighbors. kimberly: that's the worst part of the storm, when you lose power. are you expecting heavierjosh: e watching for. here's a big picture of our weather alerts across the area. mondaynday evening -- evening through tuesday afternoon. i do want to zoom out and give you a sense straight we've got pink color for a lot of our area. this continues right of the coastline. that is for the winter storm warning all the way up through massachusetts, and as you continue up into maine, it is still a winter storm watch. this one is going to affect millions of people. let's start off with your forecast for tonight. able letoudy, not going on. another cold start for tomorrow morning. .t a bus stop, not a problem the system waits for us until we get into monday evening. it will be cold. feeling more like 21

stop in the morning. on the way home we are right around 37. i want to show you high temperatures for tomorrow. fortunately, fredericksburg we are up to 48 degrees. further north we are going to get up into the 40's. in,he system starts to move i expect road temperatures to be warm enough that most of this melts pretty quickly early on. if this does show up a little bit early, if we get a few snowflakes lying around :00 or evening, i think they will melt and it should not be a problem. when it starts to be a problem is overnight, as temperatures drop and this comes down heavily. tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. we are watching that wave of low pressure and it starts to move over to the coast. models have some of the snow and the rain mixture moving in. this is what we are going to be watching for and this is what makes this forecast so tricky. that wintry mix will be right around d.c., further south. we get more rain further off to the north and

where that lines of is the big question mark for us. this takes us to tuesday morning around 9:30. heavy snow coming down in some places. and then, they're dealing with it and new england. this going to be a big one, especially for this time of year. as we go throughout your tuesday morning and into the afternoon, this is where we will wrap things up. as you get northwest of town, that is where we can see our best chance for totals over 10 inches. some places they could be significantly more than that. 1 foot not out of the estion. it's a sharp cut off as we drop down to the south and closer to d.c. more so 3 to 6 and even less as we go further south. the snow in the d.c. area, that likelihood is very high. that's a very good likelihood as we get into tuesday morning great blizzard conditions, i think we will be ok. the other thing to watch, talking about cold weather taking over, after

are going to see some really cold overnight temperatures. day, sunshine during the we will get melting. a very good chance we are dealing with re-freezing and each morning as he go throughout the week. all 10 days together, quiet for tomorrow, this moves in after sunset and as we get into tuesday, still some snow showers on wednesday, as we head into next weekend finally getting back closer to 50 degrees. it is going to be a cold week after the storm moves through. kimberly: the snow will not really meant through -- melt through. josh: i do think it will stick around for a while. kimberly: d.c. united wide-out cold today, huh? -- went out cold today, huh? >> highlights from yankee stadium, and we know who the terps are playing. we will break that all down, next. ♪ leave it to the pros?

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>> and now, the toyota sports desk brought to you by your local toyota dealers. where uva and maryland will be playing, and both teams are headed to orlando. both teams also playing thursday starting with maryland, they are coming in at the 60. living insort of after losing to northwestern in the big ten tournament. in the did finish 12-6 conference for the regular season, helping them are such a high seed. uva comes into this thing as a fifth seed. they will take onunc wilmington in the first round. came alive with a win over north carolina. we will break all this down tonight on abc 7 sports.

women souks, paige railey championship. this one went intowe will breakn tonight 0-2. kate walker makes the sweeping layup, old-school style. 79-71 the final. united stillc. have not scored a goal this season. last weekend a draw. earlier today, another -- it wasn't there day. 8th minute, nyc on the attack. jack harrison let's it fly. rodney wallace is there for the putback. united down 1-0. it gets worse. 39th minute, 2-0 nyc. he finds the back of the net, 3-0. united moves it big 4-0. trying to downplay this big loss. give them credit. they are dynamic. they have some very good players.

at the end of the day, it's a loss, which ahappens. we have another game, quick turnaround against columbus next week. in baseball, nats that's in action against the astros. how about that? bottom of the fifth, 1-0 nats. harper crushes one to deep right center. catch me outside. into the wind, that's way out there. nats go on to win this one, 5-4. the wiz told of a huge overtime victory last night. closing seconds of the game, markieff morris nails the baseline jumper. take a look here, he actually stepped out of bounds. the rest missed it. the wizards will take it. 21-point halftime deficit. the final for this one 125-124. the cavs back in acti

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kimberly: the one thing everyone is talking about today, especially at the grocery store. all: quiet tonight, quiet day long tomorrow. that's nice. you get a chance to prepare here. the further south you go we will see more rain mixed in. more than 10 inches not out of the question at all. as we go into the rest of the week after the snow

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