around the region. the temperature outside the 43 degrees. wind chill factors are colder than that. we are talking about the 33 to 37. grab the coat and the umbrella. traveling out over the next couple of hours. it will taper off. we will discuss that and we talk about the first freeze in the next few days. we will see you in a couple of minutes. larry: thanks. download the stormwatch7 app on the phone or tablet to stay ahead of the storms. alison: only on 7 tonight, security guards at a federal facility accused of fraud. maryland bureau chief brad bell broke the story on twitter and he joins us live from new carrollton with the latest. brad? brad: yeah, alison. this a matter that raises serious questions about the people assigned to guard federal buildings. it raises questions about basic honesty and the ability to handle the weapons required to have. the ripoff allegedly ha

at this gun range in upper marlboro. this is where the guards, all employees of the california based north american security came for weapons recertification essentially to prove it could handle a gun and hit a car get. prosecutors say the scam was simple. instructors told guards, most of whom worked here at the headquarters in silver spring under a multimillion dollar government contract that they missed. but for $150 to $500 they could buy a passing score. since the contract is for armed guards. that could mean loss of job. >> you have the people here trying to make an honest living to do their jobs. someone is shaking them down for money. brad: the scheme ran for three years until someone reported it to the commerce department inspector general and the investigation was launched. seven victim who paid cash has been identified. that is not the only harm suggested. >> you ran the possibility of having people carries th

certify and would not pass. brad: we have been told that all the 60 employees of the company assigned to guard buildings in silver spring and bowie have been checked, trained and certified to handle weapons. so if they are on duty they are certified to have the weapons. the four security guards behind the alleged scheme to rip off their fellow guards were all arrested today. new carrollton, brad bell, abc7 news. larry: thank you for that. developing now a teacher at st. charles high school in waldorf accuse of sexually abusing a student. grand jury indicting latoya parker with sex abuse, sex solicitation and displaying obscene material involving a student. parker is no longer teaching and has been released on bond. meanwhile, former charles county school carlos

federal charges. bell who is hiv positive faces ten federal charges of the child pornography. police say there are 28 victims and 14 unidentified children. bell recently indicted on 206 counts. alison: new developments after a string of attacks on metro bus drivers. today who members of the d.c. council introduced a bill to make assaults on the transit workers an automatic felony. it comes after a woman threw a cup of urine to a metro bus driver and other recent attacks. larry: new developments in the texas church massacre tonight. a houston tv station reporting that devin kelley was at a mental health facility in new mexico and briefly escaped in 2012. the same year he made death threats to the military superiors and tried to sneak weapon onto the base. we are live on the scene and right now the investigators are trying to get in kelley's phone. reporter: that

big challenges. we are learning he did not use a bump stock that the las vegas shooter relied on. they don't believe it was animate itic weapon -- automatic weapon. we found out about the timing of the investigation. three days in, still an active scene and it will be for another day. >> this young man came from a distance. the shooter, to destroy and kill. >> prayers this afternoon at the roadside memorial. in the small town trying to understand. >> praise your holy name for who you are. that you are in control. we have our faith in you and none other. >> authorities are saying little more about the motive for church massacre that left 26 people dead and dozens more injured at southerland springs southeast of san antonio. detectives are telling us they do not believe politics or religion led to the shooting. they have asking question about the family conflict that played a role. the agents are having t

>> law enforcement, whether at the state, local or the federal level not able to get in to the phones. we are working to get into the phone. >> she has a table of deaddy bears -- -- she has a table of teddy bears she brought from corpus christi. she has been helping families but never so many at once. they believe they have named all the victims and notified their family and hope to make the list public today or tomorrow. larry: the pentagon revealed

years about the failure to give hilltary criminal history to the f.b.i. that includes type of information air force had on devin kelley. information about a domestic assault that should have kept him from getting a gun. we have that tonight at 6:00. alison: the last victim in the hospital following a shooting at advanced granite solutions is now out. he was released after last month's deadly shooting. three people were killed from a former coworker. larry: this is news we brought you a half hour ago. former major league baseball pitcher roy halladay killed in a plane crash in gulf of mexico off the coast of florida. right now there is no evidence anyone else was on board. he was 40. alison: back at home now, voters in virginia have just two more hours to get out to the polls to cast their ballots. tonight the naacp says someone is trying to suppress the vote in no

stephen tschida is live in prince william county to explain how. stephen: we have been working the story all day. 15 minutes ago i spoke with the president of the prince william county naacp. he said he noticed 50 incidents where the individuals received repeated phone calls in some cases. either live or robo calls or text messages. essentially telling them not to go to the regular polling place but to an alternate polling place where they would not be registered to vote. why this is happening is a blatant example of the voter suppression. we spoke to the voters here in the woodbridge to get their take on what is going on. take a listen. >> it's terrible. that is terrible. it's trying to set people up and not vote to trick people. i don't think it is a good idea. it's horrible. horrible.

yeah. to influence voters and get a form of voter suppression is the best way to put it. stephen: we learned there were complaints about the same type of behavior or incident in fairfax county. the majority of the people he received complaints from were african-american but not all of them were. but everyone he spoke to or received a call or text message was a registered democrat. reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. larry: thank you for that. how has voter turnout been overall today? richard reeve picks up the team coverage from fairfax county. rich? richard: it's impressive considering we have had a horrible rainy day. look at this. at robinson secondary school. you can see people arriving here behind me. you can show some of

coming in. the gubernatorial candidates themselves arriving early in the polling places. democrat north northam in norfolk and republican ed gillespie in alexandria. both men stressing they need the last minute vote. now one of the things a lot of folks are wondering is how it will turn out in our area. so far we have seen 31% voter turn-out both in arlington and fairfax area. i want to show you one more thing before we go. here is the big wrinkle in the ointment right here. the rain situation. look at this. it's been monsooning pretty much all day as we have been covering the weather here. that doesn't seem to be keeping people from the polls. reporting live, richard reeve, abc7 news. larry: hopefully they can get out there. in maryland meanwhile, voters are heading to the polls to elect mayors in college park, frederick, laurel and annapolis. those polls will close at 8:00. alison: "7 on your side" keeping an eye on the national

that includes the for's race that is taking place in new jersey -- governor's race taking place in new jersey and mayor's race in new york. larry: we have coverage as all the results come in all night long. get updates from the abc7 app. alison: one more note here, voters arriving at the polls in part of fairfax county were met with a petition calling for a member of the fairfax county school board to be removed. citizens for government integrity says sandy evans fail told represent the community in the fight to rename j.e.b. stuart high school. evans says allegations were nonsense and the decision was not solely hers. they voted 7-4 to change the name to justice last month. larry: $15 minimum wage coming to montgomery county. the county council voting to raise the wage from $11.50 to $15 an hour. you may recall county executive ike leggett vetoed a similar bill earlier this year so this time they reached a compromise. businesses have between four to seven years to

employees they have. >> the d.c. council honoring a key figure in the civil rights fight today. >> congratulations. [applause] alison: that is ernest green one of the little rock nine. they desegregated the school in arkansas 60 years ago this year. arkansas governor objected and president eisenhower sent in the army to enforce the law. >> i hope what we did in 1957 convinces young people in the audience and in this town and other places that there is a great future in front of them. they have to grab it. he lived in d.c. and his wife is an a.n.c. commissioner. announcer: just ahead, overcome with emotion. it's amazing to find a message, real message in a bottle. >> after four years at sea, mother's ashes link total strangers' hearts forever.

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larry: the last flight of the united airlines 747 on the way to honolulu. after the short delay, queen of the skies left san francisco a little more than two hours ago. the same plane visited dulles one last time a few weeks ago. united and soon delta are retiring the 747's to make way for more fuel-efficient long haul jets. alison: just about 24 hours ago we showed you video of metro wrapping some of the cars in vinyl. it's a plan the system says is cleaner and greener. sam sweeney is covering metro to show us why metro says it's better for the environment and for riders. >> we are in metro's newly train cars arrive in the station. you may think they are brand new. >> i just know it's new. new everything. >> on the outside, the cars have sleek new vinyl racks. inside, new seats installed. filthy rugs are gone. >> it came from the car maintenanc

that could reduce the impact of the environment and would cast less as far as maintenance is concerned. >> painting metro cars cost $14,000 and can be challenging to keep clean. wrapping a train car in vinyl costs only $4,000. >> it's a third less to wrap one of the rail cars than to repaint it. it also saves us a lot of time. painting it takes five times longerer than putting on one of the vinyl wraps. so that means the training stay in service longer. >> it's easier and more environmentally friendly to watch the vinyl wrapped cars. >> the entire system. they will bring ten more cars in as far as the pilot program. if it's successful all the 3,000 and the 6,000 series cars w

refurbished. reporting on the train. larry: this is the northern lights on jupiter. they behave as a pulse. they are out of sync. it's half the size. fly up there. why not? bill: matter of time i'm sure. especially going from 70 yesterday. 70 was the high. one of the warmer days on the day. not a record. walk outside right now and at 30 to 35 degrees colder than the same time yesterday. that will smack you in the face. i don't care where you are on the spectrum in terms of going from 100 to 65 or whatever

is. a couple stories we have weather wise. those are the big stories. if you hear the sound of my voice and you look outside you have rain. all the yellow shades rain coming down at the moderate clip. that is the rain you want the umbrella if you go from car to the restaurant. if you run back and forth you will get wet. emily: the orange hues. today officially .55. little more than half an inch of rain. some of you had three-quarters to an inch of rain but brings the total to the month over an inch and for the month we are above normal. right now we are looking out

club where the skies are getting darker and darker. now that the sun is down. the temperatures widespread mid-to-low 40's. january numbers than early november. 41 in falls church. 41 in herndon. widespread 40's and upper 30's at the hour. leesburg at 39. winchester is 36. if you account for the wind the winds are really strong but enough to knock wind chill factors and the feels like down to near freezing. dulles at 33 degree wind chill value. culpeper at 39. jacket and the umbrellas you need them both tonight as the rain will continue, continuously through 8:00 to 9:00. once we get to 11:00. we see patchy area of fog as well. temperatures drop in 30s and 40's. not much off where we are now. it's cold enough

tomorrow is mostly cloudy day to bring a chance of showers mainly well south of district and metro. it will be a cool day. warmer than today. well below normal. wrap it up remainder of the evening. showers tapering off later at 9:00 to 10:00 before it's gone. high tomorrow is 50 degrees. with mostly cloudy skies. another shot of cold air. this will bring rain and cold air. the coldest so far this season by far on friday with a high of 43. veterans day saturday morning with a low of 27. that would mark the first freeze officially. looking over the last 30 years the average is november 18. the earliest october 10. chilly this weekend if you are doing anything outside. the skins game one to layer up for. alison: thank you very

more than 100 world leaders are getting together. they say president trump isn't invited. larry: we'll explain that. the obama era regulation of president trump seems to be planning to keep. alison: but first, just when we could find out if the prosecutors plan to fire any charges. >> if you watch netflix you want to hear the consumer alert. we will show you the two flag' we just spot -- red flags we spotted in a fake e-mail. larry: but first a look at what is coming up tonight on abc7. alison: now adrianna hopkins with a preview of tomorrow's "good morning washington." adrianna: thanks, guys. tomorrow on "good morning washington." the warning sign when alcohol becomes a problem and how to get help. >> plus kidd o'shea is live in nashville for the c.m.a. awards. >> join us for traffic and weather every ten minutes tomorrow on abc7 "good morning washington."

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suspended. the only red flags we could see in instead of your actual name there is a place that says hi, name. this mistake is tiny. there is no space between 48 and hours. that is a typo that a big savvy multimedia company like netflix would not make. if you fall victim to the scam it directs you to a legitimate looking site that will steal credit card and other personal information you put in. you don't want that to happen. from the "live desk," kimberly suiters, abc7 news. larry: okay. meanwhile, bombshell developments in the last 24 hours in the harvey weinstein sex assault investigation. manhattan district attorney says they will present evidence to the grand jury next week. q mccray looks at how the fallen mogul may have used spies to try to kill the stories about him. q: a new potentially damaging report in the new yorker details the extraordinary lengths movie mogul harvey weinstein attempted to take to silence

a contributor to the article says he hired several of the largest private security agents to gain, compile and discredit information on the accusers before the allegations were made public. according to the article, two investigators from black cube, a company running by the former israeli intelligence approached and became friendly with actress rose mcgowan. the article with account that weinstein learned the allegation against him had gone public. female former employee saying he was in a panic. he started screaming. "get so-and-so on the phone" and tells employees to gather photos and e-mails showing ongoing contact between him and his accusers before he was fired. saying, "send these to the board members." q mccray, abc7 news. alison: still ahead at 5:00, how borrowed bikes are helping add sparkle

>> right now volunteers are reading the more than 58,000 names etched in granite on the vietnam veterans memorial as we move to veterans day. the emotional story when we return. larry: the stormwatch7 team tracking a weather alert. we will get the latest on the cold rain and when it could end in a few minutes.

larry: new information tonight about a murder we covered for you in silver spring. kevin lewis is live on the scene and it sounds like police may have a murder confession. kevin: correct. 911 call confession. it happened around 6:45 this morning. a man reported he killed his girlfriend during a fight in their home. bradbury manor court a mile from the food and the drug administration white oak campus. officers found the 50-year-old self-labeled killer standing out front of his townhome. his 43-year-old girlfriend dead upstairs. it sounds like money played a role in the murder. >> the priority and the violence, the plaintiff said he killed girlfriend and disconnected it to stay on the line. all he said it's bad. he said, "i killed

on callback the male answered and said he is outside with the hand on the truck. he spent all the money and he is crying now. >> police did arrest the boyfriend without much of an incident. so far no charges filed. >> stormwatch7 weather alert. chief meteorologist bill kelly in the weather center. what a nasty day. >> it is. just saw kevin with the umbrella out there. we will need it around the area. we have quite a bit of rain. the good news is we speak a break to the west. that is working in a little later tonight. i will say over the next several hours if you are going to be heading out, the jackets, you may want to layer up. and the umbrella, you want them both. you can stay connected with the stormwatch7 team. but download the stormwatch7 app. it's useful. post things from it on the facebook page. i think you will like it as well.

google play. guys? alison: thank you. the rain isn't keeping people away from the veterans day tradition on the national mall. jay korff is live at the vietnam veterans memorial where the names on the wall are read over the next new days. jay? jay: that is right. i will step back. you can get a feel in this awful horrible cold weather. the powerful moment. we have thousands of volunteers who started at 4:00 p.m. today. they will go until midnight tonight. they will start up at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow. go to midnight tomorrow. do it for three consecutive days until friday. so they can read all 58,318 names that are etched black granite on the vietnam veterans memorial. this is all in preparation for the 35th anniversary of the wall being built in 1982. right now you will hear

the son of the first member of the army killed in vietnam back in 1957. >> bernard fitzgibbons jr. >> nel kissem jr. >> ronald frank -- >> it makes it san juan islands home to you how many names are 58,000 names when it takes four days and nights to read them. some of them are heroes, some of them are regular guys but all of them gave their lives serving their country. it's the least we can do is come here to remember them once a year. jay: this is actually only the fifth time in history that all 58,318 names have been read in one fail swoop. of course they are doing it leading up to the 35th of the anniversary of the wall being built. reporting live, jay korff, abc7 news. larry: thank y

three vietnam era helicopters parked outside the national archives are there to mark the first vietnam war exhibit on friday. the exhibit is free and open to the public through january 2019. alison: wednesday morning in seoul where president trump will address south korean's national assembly. he will focus on countering north korea nuclear weapons program. in the meetings there the president said of north korea, "it will all work out. the next stop on the nearly two-week trip is china. meanwhile, president trump will not be at a climate summit at paris next month because he is not invited. more than 100 world leaders will attend this. but only from the country's committed to the paris climate accord. president trump says the u.s. will pull out of the agreement unless it gets a better deal. french president emmanuel macron calling the summit make our planet great again. larry: thousands of people who fled to the u.s. from nicaragua up to 20 y

have a year to head back home. other immigrants from el salvador and haiti with temporary status are nervously waiting to hear from the trump administration to see if they can stay. tom roussey live to explain. tom: yesterday we learned that folks from nicaragua with the temporary protected status will go home. folks from honduras learn they have to wait until next year to find out what will happen to them. el salvador and folks from haiti will find out if they have to renew their status or go to the home country. she spoke at the morning's protest at the white house. >> i have been here for 21 years. tom: she came to the u.s. illegally but since the late 1990's she has had legal status thanks to temporary protected status. monday she and other hondurans learned they have to wait six months to find out if they can ever renew the t.p.s.

>> we are scared and we are afraid. >> after coming, she had a son who is now 18 and in college after winning athletic award at northwood high in silver spring. she doesn't want to leave him. >> it's so hard to think about. my son is person. >> it's temporary. >> it's time for temporary to mean temp temporary. what should happen is congress should act. either congress should legalize the folks or we should stop extending the status and begin to enforce the law and make them go home. in the future we have to say temporary really is temporary. tom rou

alison: today the trump administration says it will move ahead with a program designed to help your health. former first lady michelle obama you will remember championed the push to get calorie counts on the menus at restaurants. at convenience stores as well. supermarkets. and even pizza delivery chains. this is nationwide. today the f.d.a. posted recommendations to help businesses comply with the regulations by next may. larry: for the second straight year, wegmans is the best place to work in retail. fortune maggie: taking 50 factors in account to rank the grocery chain number one. it has stores in maryland and virginia and is building one in northwest d.c. >> i never thought in a million years i would care if someone found my mom's bottle. alison: wow! four-year journal for a message in a bottle that held something else ver

bill: all right, everyone. another look at the radar. we have the rainfall around the region that adds up the tally. we have seen half an inch of rain, many spots in the three quarters of an inch pushing inch rain to the north. right now some of the heavier bands are around the d.c. metro. as we look back to the west there is a break. we are not expecting it to rain all night long. we talk about that timing and in a noisy world ... northern virginia's own novec is listening to its cust who want reliable, affordable electricity, renewable energy options, and ways to save energy and money. novec delivers the most reliable power in the region. and customers are paying less for electricity

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alison: so you no longer have to go to paris to visit the louvre. there is a distinct difference. unlike the paris museum the one in the united arab emirates will not feature works with nudity. a big difference. larry: cindy brown died without realizing her dream of traveling the world. but her daughter put her mother's ashes in a message in a bottle and now years later the bottle washed up on a beach in florida. >> i never thought in a million years i would care someone found my mom's bottle.

your mom is in this bottle. these are her ashes. she has been on a long journey for four years. larry: read the story i think of the police "message in the bottle" in the background. the couple that found the bottle had to break it to get it open and spread some of her ashes and put the rest in a new bottle with a same message and sent it back out to sea. >> creating a bond between two strangers that live far apart. larry: how neat is that? alison: cool story. still to come at 5:00. >> shocked. just drove away. >> the driver left the scene after slamming into a home. it's who he almost hit that has everyone inside shaken up. >> wet and chilly temperatures today in silver spring. getting the holiday tree ready to go. i'm amy aubert with the story coming u

it was like an explosion. larry: i bet it was. car piled in a michigan home where a 1-year-old was sleeping. that car so close, look at this, it poked a hole in the pack n

was laying. amazingly he wasn't hurt. mom says her baby boy had glass and dirt in his hair. no word on how that driver is doing. because he backed up and sped off. alison: so scary. this year the holiday tree in downtown silver spring is sparking movement to get moving. literally! pedaling bicycles at the base of the tree lights up the holiday spectacle. >> it might not look like much. >> i never seen the tree undressed. it caught my attention. >> in a few days the good energy tree will likely grab more attention. >> they say what is it going to be this year. we tell them to give them a hint and tease them. then they end up walking away with a big smile on their face. >> this year marks the big holiday tree they put together in downtown

this time is renewable energy. >> this draws people in like a beacon. >> they plan to have bike share at the base of the tree, pedaling them will light up different sections. >> that is really cool. >> we will see it from the down the street. >> it has solar panels throughout. decked out lights to eventually donated to the area families in need. >> wind turbine at the top with the colorful lights on that. >> pretty cool to see it. >> for safety reasons in the rain the artist focus on another part of the project. decorating the walkway here across from the tree. >> we will suspend the hanging mobile sculptures. >> rain or shine. the crews are putting in the time to be ready for a big reveal on saturday. >> i'm a country boy from minnesota. this is just another day for me. >> amy aubert, abc7 news.

maria hit much of hurricane still does not have power. more than half the homes, 900,000 are still in the dark and it could take months to get it retored. the story isn't different from the virgin islands where they are hoping to restore 90% from christmas. 500 linemen working to make it a reality. >> 40 years is the longest time we have been without power. >> we are all wondering, who did we piss off? alison: well, people in part of maine are still waiting for the power to come back on more than a week after nasty storms there. crews are hoping to have all of that service restored in the next few days. larry: in florida people are still lining up to try to get food after hurricane irma. the storm hit the state in october. distribution process changed today and you can still see the lines are still very long. alison: death toll in vietnam is rising after a

cyclone wreaked havoc over the weekend. scores of people killed. many more people are still reported missing. it's the strongest such storm in 16 years. more than 100,000 homes. 100,000 homes are under water. this is as the country prepares to host the world leaders summit. larry: meanwhile, closer to home. the national weather service confirming 21 tornadoes in indiana, ohio, illinois and pennsylvania. they ranging in the strength from ef-0 to ef-2. two people died and a dozen others were hurt. >> let's check on our weather around here. rainy and cold. >> yeah. we knew it would be chilly. when does the rain stop is what we want to know [bill is in the stormwatch7 weather center with more. bill: a couple of hours. the temperatures and the rainfall. grab the umbrella before heading out. i want to focus on the temperatures. we are in the low

mid-january is the coldest part of the year. the normal high in mid-january is 43. we are about where we should be that time of year. certainly below normal for early november. leesburg at 39. luray at 37. when you look at the wind chill factor, they are cooler than that. i tell you that because that leads in to our first major cold blast which comes in later this week. we have a front rolling through. so by friday, we will see the high temperatures where they are right now. high officially today was after midnight. 56 degrees. but not only will we see highs in the 40's, wind chill in the 40's in the middle of the afternoon but we are going to have the first freeze. that is on saturday morning. it will be above normal first occurrence, or the average first occurrence for that. you will want the jacket tonight. the weekend outlook. you want to keep it out as well. saturday is 45 degrees. de

saturday. a few showers return and if you are heading to the skins game you might want the layer up. alison: thank you. sometimes you just need a little push to get you going. case and point. look at this high school football game. in ohio. derek layton posted the video of the team pitching in to help push the ambulance off the field. it was brought on after an injury. fortunately things turned out to be not so bad for the player. the ambulance on the other hand was stuck. >> do the strength training in the game. robert burton is at the capital one arena. big game for the wizards. alison: how is it going? robert: good. having fun at cap the one. look -- capital one. look who is out here? dallas mavericks. come

dirk nowitzki. he will be in the fame. bic game tonight and the big question is will john wall play? the question is yes. will he play? the answer is he is playing tonight. scott brooks said he will start. he is having shoulder issues after the last game. now if he didn't play that is okay. consider this. bradley beal led the wizards to the raptors in a win so if john wall didn't play they would still be okay. dallas is 1-10 with the worst record in the nba. you can't overlook that if you are the wizards. dation won 13 of the last -- dallas won 13 of the last 14 meetings with washington. we spoke to breaking burgen day earlier today. >> john wall is an important part of the team. facilitator. we have seen what wizards can do without him. >> they are better off with john wall for 100 different reasons.

>> bradley beal said this guy improved game and on the bounce, decision-making. thaw will welcome ball back. that is good for the wizards. robert: this is dallas. it's not exactly cleveland but it is an nba team. are the wizards able to overlook a team like this? >> dallas won the season series last year, swept it and they won 13 of 14. people should remember they keep losing to this team. dallas has the worst record in the nba so you are right. you could overlook that. this is a stretch that you have to take advantage of it. if you have goals of 50-plus win. get four wins and move

robert: the mavs have the worst record but scott brooks said in the press conference if you play against a team's record, it will be a bad night. back to you in the studio. larry: enjoy the game tonight. before we start, i just want to say if anyone still doesn't have fios, please stay out of the way so your lag doesn't get us all killed, ben talking about you, ben. i know, zoe. what's so good about fios anyway? uh. what's so great about a 100% fiber-optic network

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alison: we are back with update on effort to build a saw the chew honoring the late marion berry. today they voted to have a final vote on the statue to the consent agenda next month. it's for items expected to pass bringing the statue a step closer to reality. larry: the d.c. council voted to not renew contact that owns the united medical center. sam ford explains why. >> when the health department shuts down the obstelt ricks department as -- obstetric department unsafe for babies you are trouble. they voted to disapprove the extense of the company

contract that runs united medical center. >> the issues around the patient quality, and the issues around generation. >> contractor. [inaudible] >> there is concern about the chaos it might cause. >> we are definitely going to create instability. no question about it. create instability until you have a new vendor or a new operator. in a conference call with the reporters in the hour, the director of the d.c. healthcare finance said they were doing a good job turning the hospital around. now they have three weeks to

place. reporting from john wilson building, i'm sam ford, abc7 news. michelle: right now at 6:00. >> how did this slip through the cracks? michelle: demand for answers. the mistakes, missed warning and the outright foulup to allow a man to buy guns before the massacre. >> plus, flying off the handle. a man on a bike wreaking havoc in the district. >> blasting through a doorway. the damage floodwaters left behind in a library. right now at 6:00. >> now, "abc7 news at 6:00". on your side. michelle: a storm watch weather alert for a wet day. jonathan: as we come on the air, if you are at home, feel fortunate. tens of thousands of people are stuck in the roads and the mess. others running through the cold, raw

bill kelly joining us. light at the end of tunnel is close, right? bill: we have a few hours. traffic center is nearby. i was looking at the overall map. it looked like christmas with a lot of red on there. very little green, actually. traffic, the loved ones probably going to take extra time today. montgomery county with 1.04 inches of rain. it continues. this is the district and you can see the yellow, the moderate rainfall. out there through fairfax. when we sample the shade of yellow and oranges we are talking rainfall rates coming down to the half an inch hour range. we look back over west virginia. it