a little white in parts of frederick and well north of baltimore. we'll continue to track showers until 8, 9 a.m. currently at it's not about the rain this afternoon but more about the winds. for now over to jack taylor for a check of the roads. >>. >>> thank you. as you've been describing it could be the potential for a rough commute to the north and the west. a look at the map, most of the precipitation is rolling through the area. i-70 southbound headed toward frederick, we have a vehicle on the side. everything is on the should are. our crash 15 north bound on mt. zion, one did spin out but has gotten himself back on the roadway and moved op. be careful if you're headed out with the potential for slick conditions. ♪ >>> another bright star in hollywood is dimmed this morning. 84-year-old actress debbie reynolds, mother of carrie fisher is dead. >> she was at her son's home making the funeral arrangements for her daughter carrie fisher who died on tuesday. chris pallone has a look at reynolds life and legacy on the big screen. >> debbie reynolds

take a look at this parking lot in frederick.was mainly a cold rain when we came up here but the parking lot is pretty thick. we're not talking about a blizzard. just a little slick conditions. some of the sidewalks are slippery. definitely be aware of that. you mig snow off of your car as well. and then i love to do this shot. that gives you an indication of what's falling. take a look up at the light and it's not simply rain. you can tell that there's a little bit of a wintry precip out here this morning. so a little bit extra time depending on what part of the area you're in. for most of 0 the metro area it was a cold rain. but a little farther north and west in frederick you've got to put the hat on or visor, whatever to get it off of your head. be careful. >>> the beltway in northern virginia has seen an increase in traffic recently. that means higher tolls on the express lanes. the highest tolls are and the 7:00 and 8:00 in the morning and 5:00 and 6:00 in the evening. but if you travel outside the times you can could save

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frederick seeing light snow there. if you're traveling along 70 morning, dealing with a little bit of snow, maybe some sleet and rain as well. and frederick, the only location right now that's coming in right at freezing, 32. notice everybody else on this map is above freezing and that is great news as we just took a look at road temperatures in maryland. temperatures around freeze in hagerstown and frederick. most of us just wet roads and by lunchtime we're dry, by the afternoon we have sunshine. but it will be windy later today and wind yo tomorrow. but looking ahead to the weekend, new year's eve, we'll be in the mid-40s to 30s and dry. bundle up if you're out to ring in the new year. redskin games on sunday, chance of shower as the game is winding up. take a look at your ten-day forecast. i'll have another look at this at 5:21. breezy and dry on saturday, clouds on sunday and maybe some hours. jack, any reports coming in about road conditions up in frederick? >> yes, unfortunately right now, as you said between hag

temperatures up here are marginal at best but it is att a least in frederick nowrederi temperature is sitting at 32 degrees. d martinsburg is 36.6. hagerstown 37.hagers that's not a problem. westminster 36. that's not a problem andot arobl obviously everybody else islse i well above freezing so the only temperatures here at a freezing frederick and cumberland. i know some of the roads up roau there are treated.th i heard them talking about itthi last night and then leonardtown 43, fredericksburg on through. on through. it will get out of here by of he this afternoon.thisfter it looks like we'll be in for f some sunshine and look at temperatures. we're right back into the upper 40's to lowe righ 50's, cl of spots down south may even reach the middle 50's. the winds going start getting gusty,, too out of the west and, too northwest.orthwe tomorrow very cold.old. okay, tomorrow looks very, ver very cold so enjoy this kind tsi of quasi mild day where we'll ma be upper 40's to lowy 50's anda again watching temperatures very, very slowly thislowlthis morning. no problems right now.t now fre

it will feel like 13 in the city. 7 in frederick and leesburg. two above in winchester and 4 in luray. feels like 10 in joint base andrews. through the day the numbers won't change. it will fee outbreak in winter but this time it's still autumn because winter doesn't begin until wednesday morning. weekend will see the progress. in the transition to warmer air we have a chance that saturday morning four or 5:00 until 9:00 there could be a mix of snow and sleet. more rain could develop with the gusty winds. 58 on sunday. a quick peek at the next ten days shows dramatic drop and the rise on sunday. before another one comes through. we have a warmup and then look at the travel leading up to christmas. stay with us. "abc7 news at 6:00" continues after this. erin: the capitals look for the fifth straight win against the islanders today. they welcomed oshie back to the line-up on friday against the abeers. he has been -- sabres. he has been out with an upper body injury but he is healthy now. he scored a goal and had an assist against buffalo. there was

right on freezing in frederick and gaithersburg. in downtown we are in pretty good shape.ything moves away, maybe a little bit of sun tomorrow before the next system rolls in here sunday morning at 9:00. when you wake up sunday morning instead of freezing you're going to v have temperatures in -- to have temperatures in the 60s. by 1:00 most of the rain is gone. more rain on sunday, temperatures in the 60s and falling. cold and dry on monday for the game at fed-ex. 45 on tuesday, 50 on wednesday. 50 on thursday, a great day. maybe a he wears his army hat, he gets awalks aroundliments. with his army shirt looking all nice. and then people just say, "thank you for serving our country" and i'm like, that's my dad. male vo: no one deserves a warmer welcome home. that's why we're hiring 10,000 members of the military community by the end of 2017. i'm very proud of him. male vo: comcast. >>> high school football now in the rear-view mirror. hoops starting to ramp up with holiday tournaments. the holiday classic kicking off tonight

frederick seward: mr. lincoln, sir. abraham lincoln: frederick! is your father able to tolerate a friend? frederick seward: this way. tom hanks: seward's jaw is broken in two places and his right arm is fractured. so on april 9th, unaware of lee's surrender, lincoln returns to washington to visit his injured secretary of state. abraham lincoln: i think we near the end at last. richmond is back in the arms of the union. i walked her streets. i sat in jeff davis' own chair. [laughs] miss fanny. fanny seward: thank you for coming, mister president. abraham lincoln: how could i stay away when my secretary of state is rendered in such a way as he cannot but listen? [laughs] i have worked my own hand as hard as at sawing wood, so many others' hands have i shaken. i've been to libby prison. general weitzel asked me point blank how to treat the defeated confederate soldiers. i told him to let them up easy. my old friend. tom hanks: it is close to 10 pm when secretary of war stanton delivers to lincoln the telegram reporting that robert e. lee has surrende

frederick. if you can take another way around and avoid 270 t canha ttt would be best.ter loop delaysdeys from 95 to georgia avenue offe f and on. 95 and thef baltimore-washington parkwaye-wa looking good. that's a look at traffic. 6:27. steve and allison.is >> up next an update from theupe scene of that overnight fire f at the district yacht club.chtlu >> the skins get some helpns g from their division rivals. they needed dallas to win last night. kept it close but they got it it done. we'll tell if you how that y helps out the burgundy andy gold and preview monday night's big matchup. >> welcome back.>> it is 6:30 on a monday rnrning.s 6: looking at the washingtonton monument. weather and traffic coming upg p for you on the 5s at 6:35. 6:3 >>> right now though at 6:30 recap of our top stories.op sto. a huge fire in southeast brokeia out this morning on thening on h grounds of the district yachtic club. take a look at this video shot s by d.c. fire and ems. ems flames can be seen shootinghoot out of the clubhouse building.lh the fire is now out and the good news here i

cooler than everybody else in frederick, 46, haikers town 53, martinsburg 58. warmer this morning than 24 hours ago. 17 warmer in town. annapolis is 20 warmer. everybody is warmer than what we are and sustained wind gustsy, run in, 15, 20 miles an hour and gust up to 0 in some places and dulles 1 out west and higher elevations there's a whipped advisory in place until 10 a.m. notice showers to west of us. a lot will struggle to get over the mountains. some of it will expect we could indeed have showers here coming across what will amount to littleed commute, temperatures later today headed for upper0s. some of you lower to mid 60s and 0 is possible down south. i don't think here. down to the south there may be enough sunshine this afternoon. here's erin como with a look at tuesday. erin this is the last tuesday morning of the year. >> on time traffic brought to you by toyota. visit toyota.com for special offers. >> last tuesday of the year, that's right gary, unfortunately we have problems this morning. if you head owe beltsville route one on southbound side sh

to welcome the folks from frederick's pastries. with us are jen wojtaszek and the man himself, fred lozier. jen: we will make reindeer cakes. your choice of cake on the inside and then decorate with buttercream frosting. adam: always lots of that. jen: love that butter. we pipe up his face. friday's finishing one of the with your family. adam: how busy is it at this time of year at fredericks? fred: very busy. very exciting. everyone loves it. a lot more fun when you are real busy, and we are busy. adam: fred, tell us about the technique with the gingerbread house. what have you picked up to make these things more realistic? fred: well, without the create around the state -- well, we let the decorators create their own things. we give them the freedom to do what they want to do. it works out very well. adam: jen, as you are adding these things in, how do the ranger come together? jen: every thing be edible. that is one of fred's rules. little collar. adam: now, can you get, in theory, blitzn or any other reindeer? jen: this is rudo

fredericks so.in all this is dependent on sunshine here or there and maybe temperature goes up more than that. future cast shows mostly cloudy this morning and mostly cloudy through the day today and look what happens by 5 . i think most of any rain stays to the south of us and would be few and far between. but, later on through the evening hours there could be a few showers come on across and during the overnight as well. maybe a couple of flurries way up north and west and into pennsylvania and tomorrow morning, looks like we'll start with sunshine. that's your forecast. how about a look at traffic. caitlin roth doing duty this morning. >> hey. >> back again. >> i can't talk, either, wisdom you're not alone. still waking up and maybe you're waking up too as you watched us as well. no reported accident or delays or major slow downs on the roads. we begin in southern maryland if this is where you live all green on the local roads route 10, route 5 branch avenue split by brandy win 301 rosaryville lo

fox5 in frederick county now where we are learning the school system was targeted by hackers. students who attended frederick county public schools between 2005 and 2006 may have had personal information breached. marina maracco is in the news room. >>reporter: that breach took place about six years later in 2010 and we're just now learning about that breach and frederick county public schools releasing this statement saying we're taking aggressive action to help all of those affected.ecte now, here's what you you need to know. if you were an between november 2005 and5 november of 20006, your name, social security number and date of birth may have been compromised.co that's about a thousand studento believed to be affected at thiut point. the fbi, maryland state attorney general's office as well as the state's department of education, along with other agencies have been notified and are investigating and tonight a local cyber security expert says the breach is serious and not easy to reverse. we you talk about this fcps hack in maryland it's pretty seriouso because the data ca

we're watching what look like snow, sleet and freezing rain all the way to frederick. i was checking web caps, oldtown maryland from berkeley springs east is not reaching the ground. this stuff is west is reaching the ground with sleet and freezing ground. about monday a wet morning commute, early ice north and wes of d.c. boat showers will -- west of d.c. both showers will be done by afternoon, highs in the low to mid-50s. >> stay on top of this wintery forecast by downloading our free wusa9 app. we have live radar and traffic maps to help you navigate those roads. >>> one week ago today comet ping pong was dealing with the shock from a gunman walking into the restaurant to investigate what he thought was a child sex ring. since then the ou been overwhelming according to the owner. nikki burdine reports. >> reporter: so the official stand with comet ping pong was supposed to be just on friday, but turnout was so incredible they had to extend the event through today and the support doesn't appear to be letting up any time soon. normally a line outside a popular restaur

count question and western county and frederick and northern fauquier and further out to shenandoah valley ridge tops you can see wind gusts over 40 miles an hour. that takes effect at 8 p.m. tonight and lasts until tomorrow morning. here's planning forecast for this evening. if you go out, maybe braving some more shopping and doing all those returns i know so busy at the malls again today and temperatures will be slowly rising upper 40s under cloudy skies. as front approaches we do have a shot for showers early tomorrow morning and best chances north and west. a lot of moisture associated with it will brak up by the time it weech reaches us. passing shower in the morning will give way to sunshine in the afternoon. takes one-day warm-up and a nice one. i'll show you that as well. the rest of the week's forecast including next holiday we're keeping an a on new year's eve and day itself. that's coming up in the 7 day forecast. jim. >> thank u. caitlin. >> here in d.c. hundreds turned out for menorah lighting to mark the start of hanukah and it features songs, food and lighting of gibt

the advisory includes frederick and washington county and maryland, frederick county, virginia, also martinsburg, west virginia. again that advisory fgoes until 10:00 a.m. steadiest of the rain will be carried out between now and about 8:00 this morning. tapering back to just a couple showers until lunchtime. but after noontime, we should be able to get all the rain turned off and might even get a little sf sunshine later this afternoon. the main story once we get past this little ice slet here early this morning, the next big story is a big plunge in temperatures for thursday and friday. arctic air in place could have a little chance for some snow around here on saturday morning, as well. you'll want to stay ahead of the weather as best you can. melissa mollett is here to help. >>> going to be a little messy because of the rain and freezing rain across parts of the area. there is a police investigation in northwest. do not have to worry about it any longer, it is now out of the way and roads at least are open even if police are still on the scene. bottom of the beltway and all these

frederick in gaithersburg both 9. to mention winds will pick up today out of north and west at about 15 to 20. ah, got me. it's not impressive yet but the winds will pick unlater today. we will be seeing breezes out of north and west again in 15 to 0. cloud cover little bit of that to start the day. we'll see clouds break up. rain showers off east to north and we'll be quiet for time being. looking downstream here. there's storm yesterday. snow surprise into new england. arctic blast we're looking forward to. i'm using that word loose lie as we get to tomorrow and friday and that may bring us shower tomorrow and it will bring colder air for the week in fact daytime eyes won't get out of upper 0ss for part of the area day. blasts of cold air on the way. 50s sunshine this afternoon and more clouds this morning and sunshine this afternoon. dry day for you. there's 7 die. 50 tomorrow. front comes through tomorrow. notice colder weather friday. cold and windy. get out of 0s and we'll keep colder around for weekend perhaps

as close to us as frederick. by lunchtime, boom, rain every where. frederick -- everywhere. frederick down to dc. another batch of heavy rain. yellow and orange, heavy to moderate rain fall. commute. 39 in frederick with moderate rain, and 42 in fairfax, and also with moderate rain. the good news, by about 9:30, rain and showers will move out, and it will take awhile to clear. the heaviest activity is out by 10:00 tomorrow night. the day planner going like this low 40s to start, and the temperatures don't move much. 43 at 11:00, and heavier rain by 1:00, and we are okay on wednesday. 53, and in between the rain and the arctic air, and rain or snow shower on thursday, and the coldest air of the season, and in fact, we wi to make 40 on friday, low 40s on saturday, and we could see a little rain or snow shower on sunday evening, and back to the low 50s on monday. >> we have been warned. >> isn't that special? [ laughter ] >> how are they doing on the ice tonight? >> they are getting there. it's been a rough few days, and they don't have a great night, but a win always helps. >>

in frederick, richard reeve, abc7 news. alison: thank you. checking the top stories tonight investigators are looking for what caused an early morning fire in greenbelt. no one was hurt. but smoke and flames the building on hanover parkway. a number of pets were rescued from the fire. some families returned home this afternoon but others have to find a new place to stay. jonathan: authorities condemned an an oxon hill townhouse after a dump truck crashed into it. two children and an adult were inside and they were hurt in the crash. but they are expected to be okay. alison: authorities in tunisia questioned the family of a man wanted in connection with the deadly truck attack on a christmas market in berlin. monday's attack killed 12 people, injured nearly 50 others. the suspect anis amri has a long criminal record and was under surveillance earlier this year. jonathan: right now the north carolina senate is debating repealing house bill 2 which is seen by many as discriminatory to the lgbt community. democrats support the repeal. but they ob

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a winter storm watch is posted for late tomorrow night into saturday morning posted in frederick county north and to the west, hagerstown, hardy county, west virginia all the way back to cumberland. it's not for now. the arctic air is on the way out, moisture on the way in. it is more for some sleet and freezing rain. right now the roads are very, very slick especially from frederick westward late tomorrow night. you have date night tomorrow night, that's you will be fine. here's what we know. we're talking light prince and it's not an ice storm -- light precipitation and it's not an ice storm scenario. i think it kicks to all rain in the beltway by 8 a.m. saturday and all rain in hagerstown by 10 a.m. and no refreezing saturday night. temps actually hold in the 40s. 5:00 a mix frederick to hagerstown in the morning and 6:30 saturday a mix down to the beltway. we'll come back and show you a different model that's a little more bullish on this system. >>> in weather this cold it's tempting to park the car almost legally and run a quick errand, but there are changes to towing regulations

he is doing frederick douglass. the photograph on frederick douglass's visiting card if he gave you that card, that photograph was taken in that building standing right over there. >> host: is it profile picture? >> guest: sitting in a chair. legs crossed. million bucks. striking man, strong features. beautiful photograph. and, we own a original print of it. i, i hunted down the man who owned it. and bought it from him. and i couldn't get him to sell it to me. i doubled his money. i knew what he paid for it but it wasn't the money. it was moral obligation. i sent him a list of people we had died fighting for union army in the civil war, some of whom heard frederick douglass talk on one of the two occasions he was here at the colleges. i said, don't you think that photograph belongs here? and the man sent it to me. [laughter]. he is a photographer for the maryland historical society and very fine man. and, so, yeah, but be so in the back where you're talking about, are modern people, they were all heavily admired her

up to the freezing mark in d.c., 26 for gaithersburg, 28 2 for frederick. fr much, much mm like a winter day than today tod did that's for sure.for sure. certainly no 50's tomorrow tomoo afternoon.oo canadian cold air connection. c all that pink you see in see i southern canada look at thek att wind bars coming from the t north and the west heading to our area that's bringing someino of that winter cold down. haven't seen much of it the past wt eeseken but we will tomorrow. . definitely a windy day.fi most of us will seenite sun all day. one or two of us could could potentially see a flurry.lu no worries here locally fore lo anything sticking or anything ah ke that.t. let's skip ahead to thet' weekend. what can you expect? highs sk pressureanou e takes control onn saturd. with sstun ending with clouds. d by sunday maybe we're a littletl milder new year's dayerew yea temperatures briefly touching tn the 50-degree mark.50-degree m we have some showers mostly tor the south of d.c. but i can't c totally rule one out for the late afternoon and evening hours. her

at 10:00 tonight, 30s. 37 downtown, 31 in í need í ned frederick -- 31 in frederick.nassas and 36 in fredericksburg. by lunchtime tomorrow some folks will hit 50. if you're south of 66 and south of route 50 you'll from around 50. if you're north of town, rockville, fredericksburg, cumberland you probably will hold in the 40s and it probably bears repeating with the breezing tomorrow behind the front winds northwest at 10 to 20 miles per hour it will feel a little bit cooler than the actual air temperature. keep that in mind. 30s to start, a bit above freezing. 46 at 11:00 and 52 with full sun at now, on friday pleasant, 50. less wind on friday. that's a great day. that's golfable. then yellow weather alert on saturday for rain and showers. temperatures near 50 on christmas eve day. practice swing. nice on christmas day. near 60 on monday. showers monday night into tuesday. temperatures go down just a little bit on wednesday with highs in the upper 40s but nothing arctic heading our way. >>> ♪ [ music ] ♪ >> now wusa 9's game on sports with kristen berset brought to yo

their first patient is frederick. on the outside, he's a picture of a healthy toddler.ut inside there's a ticking timebomb, a brain hemorrhage. is it challenging to work with a team that you've never worked with before? >> we have an international language for neurosurgery. so having to yield old fashioned tricks like how high is it above the ear, counting centimeters, how far forward it is from the middle of your head. that's the way to triangulate this artery that exploded. >> reporter: frederick's surgery is a success. you were the only neurosurgeon here when you started. dr. victor has fought to build up the neurosurgery program for 30 years. why a charity hospital and why not private practice? >> translator: when i decided to become a doctor is to work for the people, the people in the poorest area. >> in the states neurosurgeons are in the 1% of income earners. here neurosurgeons are middle class in a poor country. the sacrifice is on a scale that doesn't compare to what we're doing in the united states. >> reporter: which is why dr. jandial doesn't want to waste

temperatures in the 30s. 37 downtown, 31 in frederick. look carefully and quickly, clouds roll through. that's the front. back to the low to mid 30s with sunshine tomorrow, even above freezing to start the day downtown. so 38 at 7:00, these are downtown temperatures, 46 at 11:00 and 52 at 1:00 p.m. ea probably a better day. more wind tomorrow. that 52 is going to feel cooler than 50 on friday. the next 7 days, nice for christmas day, kids can play with the toys outside, 52. near 60 on monday. some showers late. early tuesday still not bad and sunshine and 48 next wednesday. >>> well, hey there. >> hi. >> hey. >> i just came in here. >> we were buy ing you some time here. got the wizards? >> yeah, the wizards have been playing pretty good. you know, they have been dealing with some injuries but they are finding their way. finding some kind of grove for sure. they are in chicago tonight seeking their 6th win in the last eight games. tonight we go inside the numbers during their hot streak. that's coming up next in sports. zero really can