horace holmes explains. >> it has been cold, windy, and gray. >> i'm counting down to springtime. >>l depression is real and getting to a lot of us. blues orhe winter depression, psychologists say it is, in this time of year when there are fewer hours of sunshine but lots of bitter cold that keep folks endorse. -- indoors for long periods of time. >> it makes everyone of my house a little crazy. >> ask a mother of young children. there are few opportunities to burn of injury. -- burn off energy. she says she had to get at least one of them some exercise today. >> we are getting there. people from california try to shake up the cabin fever. >> despite the cold today is a great day to come out. >> and the pandas, especially the new baby, did not disappoint. for all the winter gloom outdoors, for these folks for a few moments, went away. >> horace holmes, abc 7 news. >> there is a lot of stuff in the forecast to give you. here is one silver lining. we are one month away from the urological spring -- meteorological spring. >> my parents are watching and my mom sent me a text. it said, at

-criminal homes -- horace holmes joins us with what this means. means to their we know more criminal records and arrest for possessing a small amount of marijuana. >> a looks at everyone is on board. the criminalization bill sailed to send new -- city council. get, they're to making it easier. >> the law makes less than the ounce of marijuana a civil offense that carries a $25 fine. no, no record. >> genomic about criminal records because of marijuana and are not able to find jobs? >> that is why advocates say the push for this bill. people are arrested every year for possession of marijuana. african-americans are eight times more likely to be arrested than whites. the aclu says passage of the bill is significant. >> the council is recognizing marijuana needs to not be a crime. had a bad drugs has impact on black communities. >> i am not a fan of the criminalization. it is a ball that will start rolling that i do not know what will stop it. >> passing the bill is just a first step. next is a push for legalization. >> the recall effort against the

in the district, horace holmes, abc 7 news. >> thanks, horace. keep your eyes open, folks.c 7 news at 5:00. the news continues right now at 6:00. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> first at 6:00 on a major problem is getting worse. the health care website has artie wasted millions of taxpayer dollars, and hundreds of millions more in months to come. >> it could rack up more than $30 million in excess medicare payments. brad bell joins us. what is behind the latest problem? the onlinelem is system cannot tell whether or not people have signed up for medicaid or actually qualifying. wanting to harm the deserving, has to cover every body and that will cost millions. the maryland health exchange website debacle has been well reported. the software has been so glitchy, many like this home health care provider have been unable to sign up for insurance. i don'torried because know what is going to happen. >> this person had the same experience and had to find private coverage. >> when the whole thing started, i thought it was a good idea. then i tr

live in arlington, horace holmes. >> meanwhile, we are following some more breaking news tonight. this is the long anticipated opening at the full sunlight -- on the silver line. eventually, it will extend to weston at dulles national -- r eston and dulles national airport. seven of 12 areas submitted for consideration by the airport withrity were found to be no certificate of occupancy for at least 20 buildings. they have problems including links, all of this proving to be very frustrating for people who want the silver line to open. >> it is the question on many northern virginia and possible --many-for genuine northern virginian's minds. when will this open? >> i was disappointed, because they pushed it back to march, and now they are saying even longer. justis sandwich shop since eat from the greensboro silver line station. they want the delays to end, and the station to open. >> it will help our we can resist -- weekend is this tremendously. it will make a big difference . >> this was supposed to open in the summer, but problems with the tracking software put off that date. a