e-mail us at pics@wjla.com. we will take a look. we will have the pictures online. maureen: doug hill is out and about at the u.s. botanic gardens today off the national mall. you can hear the music in the background. leon: doug has his own and playing for him. doug: on tuesdays and thursdays their free concerts. this is a group that is here vodka.lockes and the i have been in tv in washington from was 32 years. i will say it now. i have doug hill reporting live from the u.s. supreme court. td but true. this is the supreme court modeled all out of natural plant materials. the supreme court is pinecones for the roof. this is made from acorns and corn husks. every building on the mall is done this way. it is spectacular. you had that to the music, the plants, the holiday flowers and it is a spectacular setting at the conservatory. they have different rooms and themes. there is a training room. there is a plant room there is a hawaiian room. it's open 365 days of the year. is always 72 degrees in here. let's find out of this weather trend will continue with spectacular

share your scenes of the season with us at pics@wjla.com. i saw something you are not supposed to see on december 24. shorts, convertibles, tops down. it is unbelievable. records at all three local airports and tomorrow will be so close. 72 degrees. and your record at reagan national. a daytime high of around 70. , we continue to spend a beautiful evening out there looking over the airport in the pentagon. 64 degrees and temperatures are going to slowly fall by another two or three degrees in the overnight hours. 71 degrees was the high and the 1933 was 69.k in normally this time of year temperatures just around 45. dwi.s the board, 69 a culpeper at 61. heading up the frederick at 61 degrees and 60 and hagerstown. you can see with a cold front is located. areas in blue is where the cold air is located. 45 in detroit, indianapolis at 47 degrees. the further south is where the really warm air is located. 77 in virginia beach. they crack 80 this afternoon. the heaviest shower activity not moving across rehobeth and ocean city. a little bit close

e-mail us your photo or videos at pics@wjla.com. of course, we'll get it on the air.o please do that. your favorite story -- autria: i'm still waiting on the elf costume photo. i know it's out there. horace: this is your favorite story. autria: you ladies will enjoy this. a jogger in chicago feeling the love after a tv interview over the weekend. here is why. i'll stop there. i don't need to say anymore. take a look. ethan reno running shirtless along lake michigan when a reporter interviewed him. the resulting video received 25,000 likes and 17,000 shares. he stopped back at the tv station yesterday to talk about the online attention. >> it's been crazy. i have 900 friend requests now i have to sort through. autria: he mentioned he is single and looking for love. he is from colorado and was only in illinois for a short time. horace: it's so crazy. i didn't know that was going to happen. right. autria: right. horace: that will on our website if you want to see more of that. autria: i love that he is jogging shirtless. he look physically fit and runs into a camera and

send them to us at pics@wjla.com. leon: a man in hawaii won't be flying a drone anytime soon after flying it near president obama's motorcade. he said he didn't know it was in the area and landed it when they asked him to. the first family is in hawaii for holidays. in the capital, many people are enjoying the drones they opened in the holidays but do you know the local rules if you have one? according to the federal aviation administration website, there is a 30-mile radius around the national airport considered a no-drone zone. in a statement today, the f.a.a. says unmanned aircraft, even model airplanes are suspect to the f.a.a. rules. but the agency is currently working with several groups to try to set up some rules for the model aircraft to operate within the 30-mile zone. kellye: time now to check on the traffic situation out there. we have robert altman with details. robert: traffic 95 to virginia. southbound. toward the potomac mill. northbound is just as bad outside of fredericksburg moving to quantico. 32 i

if you have stuff like this happening at home, e-mail us at pics@wjla.com. we will share some on the air and online over the next few weeks. alison: that tree was created. once the decorations are all up, eventually the presence come. -- presents come. reporter: if you don't want the presents stolen off your front porches, you might say thank heaven for 711. many are now home to leon: one person is missing after the house fire. that started around 3:30 this morning. reporter: anne arundel county police and fire investigators have remained on scene defense of the afternoon. it happened between bwi airport and fort meade. is just about 3:30 this morning. this shows how big the fire was for more than 100 yards away from a neighbor's house. it took 40 minutes to bring this fire under control. one person died. fire investigators presume a second person did as well and are still inside. they say there are structural issues preventing them from locating that second person. the idea the individual but did die, we will have to wait until tomorrow at the earliest. fam

shared youscenes of the season with us at pics@wjla.com.son: we had a dreary day today but it moved out quickly. leon: as long as there is nothing else coming out right now. doug: the rain is long gone and the sky is starting to clear. a lot more sunshine tomorrow. 54 degrees at the nation's capital. 50 in winchester in culpeper. -- the rain is been chased to the east. the winds will gust up in by tomorrow morning the metro area will have upper 30's to about 40, followed by gusty winds and it will feel chillier. satellite and radar, there goes the moisture out to see. that -- sea. we expect a string of days that we pleasant around the area and a bit on the cool side. 48 is a degree above average. lots of sunshine tomorrow with gusty winds. he will feel a few degrees cooler than the thermometer indicates. . quite a bit on the greasy side through saturday 44 for the high. sunday looks good. 49 degrees. perfect football weather. looking ahead to next week. look at the warming trend coming our way. 53 on monday with a chance of showers late in

you can send us -- it to us here at pics@wjla.com. icy doug is making a face. doug: no, it's nice. they are definitely working on it, getting the algorithms ready. you can tell in the afternoon hours when the air is very dry feet you,000-30,000 have the clouds. you have the potential for great sunsets. we will have a sunset forecast. time to talk about the weekend. the weekend forecast for you right now is looking sweet. lots of sunshine. 53 degrees on saturday. let's talk about toys for tots at national harbor between 11:00 in 3:00. the morning will be the upper 40's of the winds will be fairly light. sunshine -- sunday, plenty of sunshine. there is the forecast hour-by-hour for saturday. if you hang around national harbor through the afternoon we get about 52 in the early afternoon. the next seven days, no problems with this forecast whatsoever. we will enjoy plenty of sunshine. just a few fairweather clouds a time early in the morning but sunny skies tomorrow. sunday, 56 degrees. on monday will pick up a few clouds. computer models wrestling with a system. one or two models sugg

at the u.s. botanical gardens. kimberly: and e-mail us your photos and videos at pics @wjla.com. leon: and hey there, tiny...t beer we drinkin'? i don't know boss... what about that redd's apple ale? yore a genius, tiny! this apple sauce is the bee's knees. the cat's pajamas! hits ya right in the kisser! emm. redd's apple ale. also in strawberry and kimberly: ok, kids, if you are up, he is getting closer. this is a live look at norad's santa claus tracker, near quÉbec, montrÉal. they estimate he has delivered more than 5 billion gifts so far. just a few more than i have delivered. a lot of people have d new year's off, if you are lucky. leon: could be a perfect time to visit washington d.c.'s rd to the world. reporter: just steps from the u.s. capital, the u.s. botanical gardens, housing more than 65,000 plants. this time of year, more than 20,000 poinsettias highlight this display of nature. >> i come for the plants and the model trains. reporter: the kids are enamored by the trains >>. i like the trains! reporter: are you staying all day? >> yeah. reporter: why do you like the trains so much? >> i like how

send us your pictures and the videos at pics@wjla.com. kimberly? kimberly: it may not look like the end of december here but californians are seeing signs of the season. for the first time in years the snow pack is higher than average. in california. thanks to a series of snowstorms in the sierraness. it's already at 111% for the year and more snow expected through friday. that is good news after four years of drought in california. leon: if anybody needed snow it's them. meantime here not so much snow. except for the manmade kind. they have 35 trails but because of the weather they only have one open for skiing. kimberly: they will open up saturday. it's a great place to ski. leon: it's fun. kimberly: it is. but they are suffering now. doug: that is the problem. it will get cold. i can't believe we'll spend all of jab or fab like this. nothing is impossible. weather world is upside down. who knows. there is cold air in canada. the stream pattern changes a bit. sometime in january it will get cold here. leon: glad it's not today. we'd have a real m

send us our pictures to pics@wjla.com. look for them on air at abc7 news. we like to share.lison: let's get a check on the roadways. hey, joy. joy: hello. trying to keep in the christmas spirit be careful. we have accidents. we'll go live to the camera and see how the beltway is moving. if you want to call it that. a lot of trying to get home or do the last-minute christmas errands. snow on the interloop. to the 270 spur. eisenhowernnhe wilson bridge. beltway at bradley road. southbound 95 is a mess there to make your way fa fairfax county parkway to the occoquan and even past that. the earlier accident westbound 66 prior to nutley street. outbound 395. from duke street on to the city. northbound 270 is rough now as you make your way even over east of the beltway through germantown. a slow row. we have a bright spot for the wilson bridge. jonathan: more on the video have to see. a massive school fight in montgomery county and what police say started the brawl. plus violence on metro. the attack a passenger said is the reason she stopped riding. we will tell you where it happ