we'll get back to the live desk in a couple minutes. let's go back to tom k get a look at the wed headlines. >> it is a cold morning. dress accordingly. we have temperatures in to the teens much of the region this morning. so wear your warmest winter coat again. scarf, gloves hat and later today you'll need the sunglasses this mornin an then we'll have clouds on the incree by later this afte right now temperatures around the metro area prince gey hovering in the teens . bowie 24 montgomery counter mid to upper teens, also across fairfax county. and in loudoun county most locatione aro mid to upper teens. manassas down to 10. dulles 11. those are the cold spots early on this wednesday morning. for yourl have dry road temper in e teens for the morning commute. we'll hav roads for the afternn commute, too. just increasing clouds temperat though getting above freezing. so a nice break from these frigid temperatures t last

couple days. sh be making it up to near 40 by midafternoon. melissa, what's going on? some road work 270 south at buckeystn pike you can see we have a l slowdown there. 66 and 95 no problems this to or out of up to. beltway at colesville that is moving along quite nicely. we brought you this live yestery morning. it is still shut down in damascus 124 at moyer road. you'll have to take 27 to get in or out of town. i'm back in ten minutes. i'm angie goff at the live desk with this. more than 100 planes from a major airline complai take off and that means that some of you won't be taking off either today. right now we have six flights at reagan national canceled and eight at bwi.

this after southwest took 128 planes out of service that missed inspections. just checked, numbers in total, 90 flights across the nation so far canceled. this is about 120% of the airline's fleet. we know the faa has been notifi and they are checking into those missed inspections trying to check and update those right now. we told you about the chans coming to the 3rd street tunnel in d.c.. and right now that work is under way. ddot says the construction will slow you down, but noth totally blocked off. done they will build l new buildings on top of the grid. police are asking for your help to catch the so-called black hat ban did i tells. take a look at this video. this shows the men robbing the essex bank in arnold maryland. they have robbed seven banks in our area sinc 2. the men are growing more violent and brazen holding a customer at gunpoint you know there is a $30,000

rewardor leading to a convicti. is a trooper who works fo and to hear the call come out over the radio that is trooper or any law enforcement officer has been struck pettrey guys me. >> two virginia state troopers were hit while at the scene of a crash during a 12 hour period. e latest happened yesty afternoo on 66 in fairfax county. e 26-year-ol trooper suffered scrapes and bruises. earlier, another trooper was hit on 95 in prince william county. he was treated and released from the hospital. virginia state police say the two crashes can be prevented by followg thee over law, th means you have to slow down and move over when you approach a crash scene. at one minute after midnight tonight, marijuana will be legal in the district. and at least that's what the d.c. council says. congress says the mayor and council members could go to jail for allowing that law to take

effect. bee of a kraus in the federal budget they're prohibitg fro spending money on the law, so the council sayses's letting the law through without regulation. it will stie with some rules. >> the purchase and sale of marijuan the use of marijuana in public spe and the use of marijua by juveniles remains illegal. >> you also can't smoke pot and driver or have it anywhere on federal land like the national mall and so many other small pieces of land of all over the districtf you can and can't do under the new law on nbcwashi in maryland a group urging lawmak vote against the bill. th gro sent a letter to the delegate e revenue act was introduced it would regula and tax pot like alcohol and rules for manug and sales.

opponents worry it could lead to addictio use dangerous drugs. later today president oba heads to miami for an immigrn town hall. the event puts more pressure on deadlock lawmakers here in washingt. th battled over weeks now over the president's immigration policy using dhs funding as leverage. but the president himself could face tough questions today. miami has a large immigrant populati and democrats have crit for n delive on his campaign promis for immigration reform. 4:35. on the hill this morning, congre will reevaluate the nation's food stamp program. today sees the start of a two day hearing on the supplemental nutritn program, snap as it's known. it attempts to cut food stamp mis-2013 were unsuccessful. it is t knownt changes will be m to that program. the u.s. secret service has annound it will begin testing drones in th coming week. they say tests will be tightly controll and agencies in the area have bee alerted. no specific reason was given for e test.

but the announcement comes as drones are growing in popularity and pose an increasing se vus week weeks ago, a personal drone crashed on white house grounds. in a few hours, a long bike ride is kicking off. a few con will meet with art whiting, he's riding 15,000 miles away the country by himself on a tandem bike to honor s wife who died of cancer last year. they had planned to make the trip together. whiting plans to ride to the capita of all 48 contiguous states and end back up here eight months from now. nice little tribute there. >> yeah cool. we're learning the scope of a recent hack targeting anthem insuranc >> why your information might be at risk even if you're not an anthem customer. and new overnight, we're hearing the driver's side of the story after a train derailment in california how he's defe a passenger train flipping over. here is another look at temper right now. tom says we are going to get

above freezing today. he's tracking

15 people recovering this morng after this gas explosion destroyed a home in new jersey. a look at that video. it was caught on police dash cam. e blast sent a fireball and debris high into the air. and that blast was felt up to a mile away. twy emp are in critical conditi. we want to take you now to the scene of the fiery train

verse truck collision in southe california. a look at the destruction there. we're hearing from e driver of that truck. police are now holding on suspicio by the way of felony knit and run. poli saying he left his truck along those tracks before that commut train slammed into it. the truck driver this morning, the lawy releasing a statement saying according to early report, s nothing the driver could do to to prevent the accident once the truck got stk on the tracks. four people are still in critical con and dozens others were hurt. this morning a 27-year-old man will spend the rest of his life in jur found him guilty of the murders of american sniper chris kyle and his friend. eddie ray rou convicted of shooti and killing kyle and chad little field at a gun range southwest p ft. worth. that deadly shooting happened two years ago. kyle was a former u.s. navy s. oig. his autobiography was turned in to a hit movie american sniper.

did not seek thpenalty. > time to take a look at our forecast. cold start to our day the possibility of snow. >> tom we still like you, i promise. didn't sound so happy about it. well we just had a winter r advisory issued for these counties to our south. cambridg fredericksburg and south. and then a winter storm watch richmond over to the rest of the northern neck. southeas virginia, under a winter warning. hour by hour we'll stay in the tleens through #:00 with sunshine. increasi clouds and near 40 midafter. then back in the upper 30s by time you'r heading back home later today. a look at the timing and totals for the snow tomorrow that's coming up next weather and traffis at 4:51. melissa, h is it looking now? going to keep mentioning this bec is our peggest

problem at least right now. 124 at moyer road shut down in boths because of downed wires that we alter is 27. 270 the at germantown road everyt nicely. prince g overa no major issues. same thing as we head up north an look at 95 and bw parkway in and out of town. a live picture of 66 coming up. the clock is tick before funds run out for hundreds of thousas of government workers. how today's showdown on capitol could leave them in limbo. plus why experts say little habits like checking your phone all the time could lead to

16 before the hour. new this morning, the secretary of homeland secu will try to

thok dow thokk down the road block to fundins agency. tracie ps watching the showdown from capitol hill. what do we expect from secretary johnson today and is there any new potential for compromise? it's possible. secretary johnson is speaking today, he has a speech this morning, a news conferen this afternoo he's bringing in some new fire power, two former homeland secretaries, both republics to try to convince this cs not to let that money run out on friday. republics in the senate have put a compromise on the table, separa votes on the immigrat issue that has been holding this up and the funding for homeland security. but you now democrats ares from the other that they will actual vote for this before they vote for it on the senate side. >> so the shutdown is still a real possibility. it that happens, what are regular folks going to see change with the shutdown? >> that's the interesting thing. th not see anything at all, bec 200,000 out of

20,000 employees so the vast majori of homeland secu employee are essential. they wl still be on the job. they just won be getting paid. the coast guard, border patrol when you go to the airport, the tsa, they will all be there, they just won't be getting paycheck >> tracie thank you. republican lawmakers vow to contin fighting the president his vee toef the keystone pipeli bill. jo boehner called the veto a quote, national embarrassment. yesterday the president vetoed the constructio long awaited pipeline. republics don have the votes to override the veto. 4:46. kidnappea are demanda ransom of nearly $300,000.s abducted mond morning at work this central nigeria. police s the kidnappers are probab criminals rat

terror because boko haram does n generally ope in that area. a murder mystery unfolding. homicide detectives investg the death of a 95-year-d nav veteran at the randol village complex. a property manager found daniel belvin dead in his apartmen poli they have some leads. and during the recent cold snap there a been more than 200 water main breaks reported. e also learning that 51 breaks are still awaiting repair princy and montgo counties. wssc wants residents to report break, but warns response time might be slower than normal. normal response times are 2 to 4 hours. pri court is closed. the court has has been dealing busted pipes and elel since last thursday because of all the cold weather. the wing that houses circuit

court open. hyattsvie courthouse is open as well. coming up on 4:48. we now have an answer to what s making dogs sn arlingto neighborhood. someone had put caffeine pills in sausage. two dogs found those oh columb street. they had heart rates. police don't know if someone intend dogs to eat them but if they find someone responsie that could animal cruelty charges. four students at wesleyan univer in connecticut face drug charges this connection with an overdose that sent 11 people to the hospital. university suspended those studen stu were treated for a drug overdose over the weekend. at least two students remain in the hospital. earlier the university said the symptoms are consistent with the use of the drug "molly". in hugh 4 your health pain meds are g stronger. a new report says u.s. doctors pre-desc more and more powerfuln kil over the

la ten years. the repo says from 1999 to 2012 the number of adults who used strong pain killers, strong than morphine, jumd from 17% to 37%. in the same time period, the number of adults using pain killers weaker than morphine checking your smart phone constant putting on chap stick every 30 minutes and other compulsi behaviors can cause lasting effec you hear the word addictio you may think of drugs or alcohol, but people can have other so-called soft addict including exercising. when staying fit turns in on to compul habits that's when your mindset has been compro >> the attitude of the more i lift the more reps i do the bigger the stronger i'm going to get, the healthier i'm going to get, and your body won't work that way. >> some people are also addicted tattoos.

apparent not all addictions are negative but if you're startio feel guilty about yo behavior or if you're losing control, try to take control of it and make it a simple habit. folk in the south seern bracinr a blast of san antonio.at cou get 4 inches this afternoon. officials say cold weather a storms in the last few days have been kind of a good practice for the challenge they will face this afternoon. 4 inches in atlanta is a big deal dn there. >> i always think about your poor mother. heading to florida. she's okay. >> atlanta is a big air hub, as well so it be snarling that by later this afs like the snow will move in there this evening. wee just cold here. te not as bad as they were

y morning, but s cold. did actual less 10 manassas 11. a mostly clear sky. reagan national at 23. eastern shore in the low 20s there. production county most locates in e teens. wel be in the 30s by noontime and continuing to climb all the way up to near 40 degrees by midafter. so a nice break from these frigid tems that we've seen tf day just incg clo durg the afternoon wit a light wind. there ismi into louisiana, that will trk toward atlanta and then get closer to us by this time tomorr morning. already have some winter weather advisories out for st. mary county king george frederic. far south of ther winter stm watch out.

winter s warning for southern virginia and into the caroli storm w be passing to on you south. white zo ie snow arriving maybe around 4:00 to 5:00 tomorrow morning. a little bit of light snow for the metro area. darker colors here is where it may be coming down a little bit harder.mary's, northe the 9:00 a.m., still light falling in the metro area. by noon a lot of that snow tracks off to the east and most of it will be over 2:00 in ineing a race to an inch. flurrieso the north. much of the metro area maybe up to an inch. p 1 to 3 inches for the northern neck and far southern maryland. and then as we get into friday afternn highs reaching near 30 and maybe a passing flurry and still cold again saturday. sunday though, back to near 40 mayb rain on monday and tuy with highs in the 40s. melissa re thousandw looking at an okay commute. still have so 270 south at

buckeyn pike. right lane blocked. around for a little bit longer. of 6 eas66 east of compton road no issues e 95 also not having any problems here this morn and a lot of the road work we typicay see on a morning like this just is not around or has already cleared out of the way. beltway at st. barnabas rolling g nicely. and then this is or biggest problem. 124 at moyer road still shut down both ways bece downed wires that were on fire yesterda alternate is going to be 27. s weath and traffic always on the 1st. it could be a medical breakthr what a new test can do in the fight against diseases like

welcome back. we're working for you with this consumer alert. two products are being recalled this morn fanimatis recalling 9300 brew master belt driven ceiling fans because there have been two reports fan hub failing. rathe and electrolux is calling 3,000 ken moore electric ranges becaus poses a shock hazard. federal govt now says

its now planning to sue george zimmerman for killing trayvon martin. u.s. justi departmt says there not enough eviden to sue him on civil rights charges which e proof the killing was racially motivated at the l level. zimmerma he was acting in self defense when he shot and killed marn in florida. found not guilty in that killing in e criminal case. betwn 8 and nearly 19 million peopl who don't have anthem ins may have had their records compromised when the compa was hacked earlier this month. insurer says those people all have other blue cross/bl providers. but received care at some point from an anthem provider. anthem says as many as 80 million records could have been stolen in the attack. ths like social sy numbers and addresse today a partnership will be announce to give students at d.c. charter schools better access to books. d.c. public library and charter board are working together to create a lending library at a school that doesn't have one. thousands of books would be in

it. the this is the first partnersp of i kind they hope to create a national model. there are just two more meetin for you to voice your pin i don't on rockville pike. you can talk about out town plans to traps for the corridor with new parks, buildings and ways to get around. e final meeting is next monday at city hall. and stay with us. continues right now at 5:00 a.m.. today you will enjoy a brief frigid cold temperat. the teens in some areas. m says things will warm up. t behin the cold is the snow. tom kiern tracking what is happenin outside your door. >> we have a clear sky this morning.il pretty cold. so dress accordingly for a frigid morning headlines for this wednesday, a milder afternoon. we'll be getting above freezing.

by this time tomorrow morning, light snow likely moving in. temperat rig now are in the teens in montgomery and princecounty. # 2 in wag. and across most of fairfax county, in teens. dulles town to 9. coldest s m and warrind 10. most of the mountains in the 20s. oakland down to 16. around the bay eastern shore, in the low 20s. drive ti forecast looking good for the morning commute. dry roads. but cold. yo need your sunglasses.e bright sun this morning. and then increasing clouds during the afternoon, we'll be above freezing. so we'll have some melting of that snow. so a little bit of water on some of the roads. but most roads will be dry duri the afternoon hours. winter weather advisory the countin col southern e shore, st. mary north neck for accumu snow beginning this time by tomorrow morning. next weath and traffic on th, your bus sto for

this wednesday. and now how is it looking with our commute? > no major issues m in take. belty at river moving al thing beltway at kenilw. br avenue, pennsylvania avenue indian head highway, everyt nice and green. no constructn around that wee getting any reports of at the least. 95 at dumbfries, everyg nice and open. this is the issue in damascus. 124 at hoyer road shr road shut down. alternate is 27. i'll come back with a live look at 95 in maryland. new this morning, invests are looking into a shooting inv charles county sheriff's deputy at a home on azalea place in waldorf. deputies responded to a