reporting live marcy gonzalez, abc 77 news. >> ok marcy. thank you for that report. in the meantime today, a judge hearing cases regarding drivers who do not pay for using those express lanes. our john gonzalez joins us live outside the fairfax county courthouse with more on how these cases could impact millions of people who drive on 495. john? >> jummy, i want to throw some numbers at you right now. 24 unpaid tolls at $1 and change each toll have now jumped for one maryland man to $1,000 a toll. you do the math. that's $24,000 and this man was just found guilty. he came to court to fight this and he just lost. minutes ago these are unbelievable cases of large fees and penalties that are being heard here in appeals court for folks who use these 95 hot lanes. now, a judge, an appeals court judge here in fairfax county is hearing the string of cases slapping thousands of dollars on people who have not paid for these tolls. among the plaintiffs are tony cooley, a woman who owes $10,000, jim diller, the maryland man who was just found guilty. he's been slapped with fees

live in boston marcy gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> ok marcy. thank you. now we move to another developing story. authorities in charles county are investigating a school bus crash. it happened around 7:00 this morning at hawthorne drive a mile from henry e. lackey high school. police say the bus rear ended a car that then hit another car. the 16 students on board were all taken to charlesnty medical center just to be checked out. charles county school says one student complained of a possible broken nose and another reported possible whiplash. police and the school system are investigating the crash this noon. d.c. delegate eleanor holmes norton is pushing to have d.c. voting rights restored in congress. she, d.c. mayor, muriel bowser and former veterans affairs director for d.c. kerwin miller held a news conference this morning. annette raez is live with more on why these d.c. leaders are making the push right now. jeanette? >> all right, autria. the fight is on this afternoon to get back to the rights, the news conference wrapped up a couple of hours ag

. >> and marcy, you are a...? >> professional mom, and i've never done this before. >> nathan you can use any tool in your box. marcy, you only get one tool but it's the one saw that cuts them all. this is the rotorazer. let's go to the drywall. go! [ rotorazer buzzing ] now, nathan, you're starting with a drill. >> that's right. i have to drill first, 'cause a jigsaw can't just plunge into the drywall. >> okay, well, meantime, marcy can plunge with the rotorazer. plunging right in. >> it's so fast and east. >> no lie. you're already on your final cut. you switched tools. >> i did. it's my next tool here. >> oh! marcy! >> look at this! [ laughter ] >> she got the light switch done. she's on the octagon. now, you switched tools for -- okay. >> that's right. this is a jigsaw here, and i'm being real careful not to wander off the lines. >> yeah, 'cause they're kind of tough to control, right? >> sometimes. >> okay. look at this. watch this. >> so, i used to be afraid of power tools, but not this one. >> no. >> nope.

the marci daniels wanted to buy a dog as a gift for her grandchildren. after this little cutie, a dog name olivia was run over and kill just one week before christmas. who could resist, a adorable puppies. reasonable prices. and free shipping. >> what is this one. >> marci daniels decided by vina as a gift for her grandchildren. she found and purchased four other dogs on line successfully. >> never any issues with anything. >> reporter: when daniels typed in french bull dog puppies, star bully.com popped up. she corresponded with someone claiming to be justin the breeder. daniels then wired $550 via western union something that she had done before with no problem. then on christmas eve the day vina's itinerary showed she was supposed to arrive daniels received this from pet the co shipping.com. >> i said wait a minute now i was really sweating because i knew something was wrong. >> reporter: e-mail said daniels needed to wire $1,700 for puppy insurance. when she reached out to petco thing and justin at star bullies she said ultimately no response. >> i'm

marcy gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> ok marcy. thank you. and of course, the snow is the big topic of conversation on social media today. >> our question of the day is asking what you thought about how the region responded. sylvia posted about the schools asking why place people and personnel in danger. what do you think fairfax would have done? and one writes. no reason to close. a delay would have been enough. >> diane knows that parents have to use their own common sense. if the weather is that bad, nobody should have to tell you to keep your kids home. you can join the conversation on our wjla facebook page. and doug you know, last night at 11 clock:0011:00, we knew that the morning rush would be a big mess. that's exactly what happened. >> the timing temperatures as cold as they were before we had much traffic got the initial coating down and it was off to the races, you know and all the problems got worse from there. couple more inches in spots, but the impact was awful and now this evening, we have a separate kind of issue and that wo

marcy gonzales has more now. >> reporter: air travel is getting back to normal in the northeast. especially airports in the new york area, this area was spared but in massachusetts we see that this blizzard was just as brutal as expected. shoveling out from over 3 feet of snow -- today millions of people in new england are coping with the aftermath of the winster storm that continued well into last night. >> in many parts of massachusetts, you could call it an historic event. snowfall totals are breaking records in places and this shows it piling up. thousands of homes are still without power today. winds reached nearly 80 miles per hour, along the massachusetts coastline sand dunes giving way and a sea wall crumbling, making way for the ocean to surge into homes. >> this is horrible we walked this wall yesterday and it's gone. >> from new york to new england, they working hard to clear roads and walkways until more snow moves in later this week. >> mother nature at work. >> air travellers know about mother natures impact but after 8,000 flights were canceled over the last couple

. >> the person if the puc or the airport ever show up i think marcie and overview cac have a here. >> i want to ask 1 or 2 one question about the t nc has to pay a fee not only the taxi drivers. >> good afternoon thanks for being here i'm overview you can't have the t ncs have to pay fees it's different than the taxi system they b.a. pay a drop off and pick up fee and taxis with a smart card they pay $3.85 for drop off and picks up. >> do they go out. >> taxis are smart cards they swipe the cards and the t n kc's we're implementing for the term of august a geotracking capacity that the t nc go do as the taxis. >> do you want to say something from the t nc. >> i was asked to be here to respond to questions i'm marcie the director of the planning commission my main task to drop the proposal and creating the rules for the t nc the commission unanimously adapted the next facing phase for anothers t nc we're looking at what rules we need to modify. >> what additional rules we'll create everything we do though is to promote the safety of the passengers, drivers and the general public so th

reporting live, marci gonzalez, channel6 "action news."rrie, back to you. >> okay, marcy, thank you. >>> there will be much more on the terror sweep on world news tonight with david muir. that's tonight at 6:30 directly after "action news" at 6:00. >> all right, let's talk weather. temperatures jumped into the 40's today. a welcome treat to end our week. >> talk about that. but will the mild weather last for the weekend? meteorologist cecily tynan outside our studios with the details from accuweather. we're waiting for the answer. >> and the answer is no, it's going to get cold and then it's going to get rainy. so, i hope you enjoyed today with temperatures in the 40's. didn't quite feel that mild, though, when you factor in the winds. taking a look at temperatures right now in philadelphia it's 40 degrees. millville 38. wilmington 39. trenton 34 and allentown currently 32 degrees. but then you factor in the winds. the wind chill quite a bit cooler. feels like 31 in philadelphia, feels like 21 in allentown. 30 in wilmington and it feels li

marci whittier went through chemo earlier this year. >> i was lonely and feeling, i guess, sorry forelf. >> reporter: she received a bag from vicki and susi's ministry. >> i just felt the love in it. >> reporter: then marci gave her bag to another chemo patient. >> she broke down and cried and so did i. i just wanted someone else to feel the love in the chemo back. >> we laugh more than anything but we also cry together. >> reporter: vicki and susi embrace it as a gift from god. >> it's been very eye-opening and very humbling. >> as long as people have cancer and as long as we're able, we'll keep doing it. >> reporter: so for giving chemotherapy patients comfort and hope this week's jefferson award in the bay area goes to vicki goss and susi folks. sharon chin, kpix 5. >> you can find a link to the chemocare bags' facebook page online at kpix.com/hero. >>> we'll be right back. know about you? from credit card spending to online shopping... the personal data they're >>> coming up at 5:00 they have your medical records but what else does your doctor know about you, the personal data th

live in new york city marcy gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> all right thanks marcy. count on abc 7 and the storm watch weather team to keep you on top of the weather both in the northeast and here. coming up, we'll check on the conditions at the airports and get a look at the extended forecast from doug along with an in-depth report on the area's roads. alison? >> all right, leon the other big story we're following today, search for answers after a small drone crash landed right on the white house lawn. tonight, a person has come forward saying it is his drone and rebecca cooper is live at the white house tonight with what the secret service is saying about this. rebecca? >> that's right alison apparently this is a man who is a government employee who is flying the drone for recreational purposes right here in this area. the secret service insists that based on what they know now, nobody assigned at the white house was ever in any danger. the fact that the drone could easily fly on to the grounds of the white house is raising serious new questions about security. the

marcy gonzales channel 6 "action news." >> marcy thank you. world news tonight with david muir will have much more on deflate-gate and more on the new jersey apartment fire, watch that after "action news" at 6:00. >>> police divers pulled a body from a car at the bottom of a lake today. they used a chainsaw to break through the ice and they used special suits to get the victim. investigators have not released details about the person's identity or what led them to search the lake in the first place. >>> former judge joseph waters jr. will spend the next two years in federal prison a judge ordered him to pay $250,000 in fines and then have court supervision once he is out. because he used influence in cases that were handled by other judges. >>> delaware governor jack markell says that the first state made strides in the last year but needs more to ensure success in 2014, markell gave his annual state of the state address in dover and it's crucial to seize new opportunities for growth including in investing in infrastructure. the condition of o

hi, marcy. >> hi, alison. the snow has finally stopped here. it's actual abeautiful day in new york city. this was not the historic blizzard that was predicted but it did hit hard further north. >> in this flooded frozen town in massachusetts, evidence of the blizzard's brutal impact. >> this morning at high tide an 80-foot section of the sea wall just crumbled and you can see how ocean street now is a river. >> other parts of the state coping with power outages and some places getting nearly three feet of snow. in boston and elsewhere in new england the effects are still being felt. >> the drifting continues to be an issue and the blowing. there are drifts now as high as 4, 5, 6 feet. >> while parts of long island, new york are buried too. >> we got hammer and still coming down. >> for a lot of areas the storm was nothing compared to what was expected. one national weather service meteorologist tweeting you made a lot of tough decisions expecting to us get it right and we didn't. once again i'm sorry. there were unprecedented precautions taken

as marcy gonzalez parts of massachusetts buried under three feet of snow are dealing with flooding and power outages. >> shovelling out from under three feet of snow. today, millions of people in new england are coping with the aftermath of the winter storm that continued well into last night. >> in many parts of massachusetts, i think you could call it in fact an historic event. >> snowfall totals breaking records in some places. this time lapse video shows it piling up. thousands of homes are still without power today. >> we had to shovel to the generators. >> in most of the islands of nantucket where winds reached 80 miles an hour. along the massachusetts coastline, sand dunes giving way and a sea wall crumbling making way for the ocean to surge into homes. >> this is horrible. we walked this wall yesterday and it's gone! >> today, from long island, new york -- >> freedom. >> through new england. they're working hard to clear roads and walkways before more snow moves in later this week. >> mother nature at work! >> and air travelers know all about mother nature's impact after 88,000

marcy gonzalez, abc news, new york. >> that will be great. so many people on facebook these days. definitely is important. >> yeah. >> lot of people are on the facebook page talking about the weather. and they should be you know in fact, i just tweeted out a link to the latest blog. brian and i have been kind of powwowing the last hour with the new models that have been coming in and our confidence is growing now that we could be seeing some wintry weather around here for tomorrow morning's commute. i don't want to be alarmist and say this is going to be like last week or anything. models are just picking up on this and the one that is is the same one that handled that system better last week. that's why we're giving a little more weight to it. we think those chances are going to be south and east. we'll walk you through it and start off with what's happening now and setting the stage for conditions that are going to be happening next. the temperature in montgomery now is 26 degrees. look at the beautiful clear skies. it looks very nice. it's just a couple of high thin cirrus clou

marcy gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> to help defeat isil militants, the u.s. will send 400 troops overseas to train moderate syrian rebels. aconsideredcording to pentagon officials, the training is set to begin in early spring and they will work out of sites at turkey and qatar. it is in a campaign to defeat the islamic state group. back at home the maryland governor martin o'malley is al interviews before he leaves office next week. our maryland bureau chief brad bell sat down with the governor to talk about his last eight years in office and what he considers his greatest accomplishments. o'malley spoke about his 16 strategic goals to move maryland forward. the governor-elect larry hogan will be sworn in on wednesday. we'll have governor o'malley's in-depth interview coming up here on abc 7 news at 4:00. still to come here on abc 7 news at noon though -- >> let's do the right thing. turn the page and ensure our future legacy is one of pride. >> the redskins football season is over. but find out how local fans are now taking part in the team's name debate. pl

marcy gonzalez abc 7 news. >> tax season is under way. and tonight, "7 is on your side" making sure you're ready. we'll have experts on hand to answer all of your tax questions for our tax help phone bank. it starts tonight at 5:00. we have the experts. they know everything there is to know. give them a call. can't believe it's tax season again. >> it's coming. listen -- >> i know it's coming. crazy weather. >> you look outside one minute and it's blue skies and sunshine. next minute it's dark as night and in between times it's windy. that's today's weather. we're not talking about what's happening sunday yet. let's jump into it. this is the wind advisory up until through midnight into the entire area shaded in -- i don't know if that's tan. maybe kind of a tan. kind of shows you the whole story and these winds could gust over 40 miles per hour. they're kind of the threshold for wind gusts to prompt the advisory. we also have the snow squalls and some of them are very heavy but rapidly moving from the northwest to the southeast so right n

marcy gonzalez, abc news new york. >> as marcy mentioned, today is also a day for service. we'll show you how local residents used their day off from work to benefit those in need. that's ahead on abc 7 news at 6:00. >> still ahead on abc 7 news at 5:00, where pope francis plans to stop in d.c. during his first trip to the u.s. and how he answered one of the toughest questions of the christian faith. >> plus the harsh new criticism of metro's response to last week's smoke incident on the yellow line. >> looked out my passenger window and on my right side and saw my life coming towards me. >> the man who survived his truck being crushed between two tractor-trailers describes what he went through, what went through his head, rather, the moment of impact! >> first, the simple step a mother took months ago that she says savedtt2w>rxly po j# ?a( tt2w>rxly p!!án oa@ tt2w>rxly p4!j# 9w4 tt2w>rxly px#á&ú:>y@ tt2w>rxly pt#j'ú:áy$ tt2w>rxly pt#j)ú:!9@ tt2w>rxly pp#jáú:6"é tt2w>rxly pp#j,ú:wx< tt2w>rxly pl#á.ú:íq0 tt2w>rxly pl#á0ú:egx >> take a look at. this a local mother is sharing

abc's marci gonzalez with the scarey takeoff. >> reporter: the jet blue plane packed with passengers, heading down the runway of new york's jfk airport at full speed. >> jetblue 1295, cleared for takeoff. >> reporter: then, out of nowhere, another plane, caribbean airways flight 526, crosses right into its path. air traffic controllers repeatedly calling out to the caribbean airways' pilots. >> 526 stop. caribbean 526? caribbean 526? >> reporter: no response from the cockpit, and at the last second, the jetblue plane ordered to brake. >> jetblue 1295, abort takeoff. >> it was crazy. all of a sudden, the brakes went on, slammed on. >> the plane came to a screeching stop and kind of slid a little bit. and everyone kind of panicked. >> reporter: these close calls, now increasingly common, up 20% since 2011. the faa says there are on average three so-called runway incursions every day. just last month, the wings of these two planes collided at new york's laguardia airport. part of one, breaking off, and last year, in barcelona, this dramatic scare on the runway was caught on camera. >> at

live in boston, marci gonzalez channel6 "action news. >> marcy thank you. >>> meantime a member of therand jury that that declined to charge police officer darren wilson in the shooting death of michael brown is legal seeking help to speak out. the aclu says the jury is suing the saint louis prosecutor to be allowed to talk about the case. the juror wants to speak out as part of a public dialogue on race relations. the jury is barred by missouri law from talking about the case. >>> florida held its first legal same-sex marriages today. miami dade county got a jump start and allowed same-sex couples to start to tie the knot one day ahead of the ban being officially lifted by a circuit court judge. this was the very first ceremony to take place today. the couple said they didn't expect to make history. they just headed to the courthouse as soon as they could. >> thank you sharrie. >>> health check tonight delaware senator chris coons says the ebola epidemic in liberia has turned the corner. coons who was in the hot zone last month says sending in 101st airborne made the big difference. h

of course abc's marci gonzalez has been following this for us. she's in new york with more on those published magazines that were put out as well as another arrest in connection with the attacks. marcy. >> reporter: sharrie police say that arrest likely won't be the last. today investigators are busy trying to track down even more suspects. hunting for the rest of the terror cell responsible for last week's deadly attacks in france. [speaking foreign language] >> reporter: policization they think the accused terrorists who were killed had accomplices because of their extensive weaponry and logistics. investigators have tracked down this man arrested in bulgaria believed ton linked to the brother who carried out the massacre at a paris newspaper. police are still trying to find this woman the alleged girlfriend of the gunman who killed four people at a kosher supermarket. investigators believe she and an accomplice are hiding in isis territory in syria. >> it's going to be difficult even to conduct surveillance of her activities while she's in syr

abc's marci gonzalez joins us with much more.ter: and monica cent comrie lease add statement at anything that no classified information was accessed by the hackers saying it was simply a case of cyber vandalism while today president obama focused on safeguarding against other kinds of cyber crimes. we've seen the major impact hackers can have from the attack on sony. >> you want us to kill the leader of north korea. >> reporter: even u.s. central commands twitter and youtube pages were hacked today with pro-isis messages covering its profile pages. >> i can tell you this is something that we're obviously looking into and something that we take seriously. significant difference between what is a large data breach and the hacking of a twitter account. >> reporter: but today president obama's focus was on cyber security for individuals annoyancing proposed legislation aimed in part at protecting against identity theft. >> so this is a direct threat to the economic security of american families and we've got to stop it. >> reporter:

hill and ellen marcie broke up is because a.p. hill had gonorrhea which he had contracted at west point during a weekend in new york with mcclellan. so mcclellan knew he had gonorrhea, and he informed the family, the marcie family of ample p. hill's condition. >> thank you for that. you see, i just don't do military history but i'm very pleased to be filled in this way. thank you so much. this gentleman and then -- >> yes. good morning. i'm david carroll from chicago. >> hi, david. >> hi. in the last year published in the journal of the abraham lincoln association there has been great speculation on mary lincoln purchasing penny royal at dill lard's drugstore in springfield when she was pregnant with tad who was born with a cleft palate. penny royal is used to rid dogs of fleas or induce abortion. do you have insight on this recent scholarship? >> i'm sorry. i can't comment on that. my recent move and dislocation of many of my books and pieces meant that i don't have the 41 -- of oh mary lincoln but moving from ireland was difficu

ellen marcie mcclellan did not exactly retreat from the field. she never even took up arms. she was outperformed, outplayed by old hands at the washington party politics game. mary lincoln's sad fate will doubtless be a part of the lincoln forum's commemorations next year as her widowhood in 1865 was as defining of her life as her marriage in 1842. but what about her younger blonder rivals? hairrriet lane had heeded her uncle's advice to not rush were -- precipitously into matrimonial connections and only married at the age of 36 in 1866. her union was a happy one although she lost her uncle, her husband, and both of her children, two sons, before she reached the age of 60. she died in her early 70s donating her considerable art collection to the smithsonian and endowing a home for children at the johns hopkins hospital where the harriet lane pediatric facilities continue to serve the clinical needs of children today. according to her white house biography. poor kate chase sprague never got a white house biography as mary lincoln and harriet lane did, even though she spent m

alicia back to you. >> marcy thank you. >>> dozens pause to remember dr.of liberty this morning. >> ♪♪ >> the united states coast guard academy cadet choir kicked off the 30th annual national bell ringing ceremony on independence mall. earnest evans better known as chubby checker and meredith l. henderson the north atlantic regional director of the alpha kappa alpha sorority served as the official bell ringers. >> classes were not in session but the halls were filled with students in the upper darby school district today. these kids were cleaning windows and otherwise sprucing up here at the high school as part of the district's martin luther king, jr. day of service commemoration. they were also treated to some inspirational words of wisdom from superintendent dr. richard dunlap. volunteers young and old helped spruce up the greater norristown police athletic league on harding boulevard today. this is one of many nonprofits taking parter in the national day of service. the annual events in norristown have grown to more than 800 volunteers from just 40. >>

marci, good morning. >> reporter: reena and t.j.ow nice and toasty it is in the studio while i'm out here in the snow. it snowed most of the day yesterday. it picked up within the past few hours. where we are at least, only a few inches of snow accumulated but that is quickly changing. the worst of the storm now moving in and much of the northeast could be buried beneath a few feet of snow. >> this will most likely be one of the largest blizzards in the history of new york city. >> that prediction prompting an unprecedented level of response. roads, bridges and tunnels in new york city shut down for everything but emergency vehicles. subways and a lot of commuter trains aren't running either. >> when they say go home early you're better off going home early because you are not getting home, especially when it is like this. >> reporter: 4500 flights cancelled tomorrow, the ripple effect being felt nationwide. not just the snow causing problems. >> i'm supposed to get back. wind gusts could be up to 75 miles an hour in some areas lead

marcy gonzales has more from central park in new york. >> new york was spared the brunt of this storm. >> reporter: that is right people here are breathing a sigh of relief this was not the historic blizzard predicted for this area but the storm did hit hard further north. >> in this flooded frozen town in massachusetts, evidence of the blizzard's impact. >> this morning at high tide, an 80 foot section of the sea wall crumbled here and now ocean street now is a river. >> other parts of the state is coping with power out ables some places getting three feet of snow and in boston the effects are being felt. >> the issue of blowing, and drifts of four, five and six feet in in places. >> in parts of long island new york they are buried too. >> we got hammered here and it's still coming down for other parts it was nothing like expected. we made a lot of tough decisions to get it right and we didn't once again i'm sorry. >> there were precautions in new york city, for the first time ever the mass transit system was shut down for snow leaving some people stranded. but today subways and buse

the increase in air traffic means we have an increase in these incidents. >> that was marcy gonzalezlane and the flight did finally take off for austin a few hours later. a scare today during the delaware home of joseph biden. multiple gunshots were fired near the home from a vehicle. no one was home at the time and there is no clear indication that the home was targeted. delaware police, the secret service and the fbi are investigating. the alameda county coroner's office identified the man shot and killed by fremont police on friday. on friday afternoon, the officers responded to fremont's harvey park after reports a man pulled a knife on two contractors and chased them around a nearby neighborhood. one officer fired a taser and a second shot the man. police say he was holding a knife with a six-inch blade. they also say he was arrested a week earlier for being under the influence of a controlled substance. >>> san jose firefighters rescued two bay area boaters from shallow waters in the south bay. it happened in the el-viso marina. they got the call around 1:30 this afternoon. fir

marcy gonzales is here with more on the plot. >> reporter: investigators say that the suspect appears to be mentally ill but the fbi believes he posed a serious threat. >> today house speaker, john boehner is on the house floor with no comment on the man who attempted to kill him. they say that michael hoyt suffers from mental ill and and worked at this country club for five years after he was let go from his job, police responded to his only after a 911 call and blame the boehner for his job loss and said the speaker was the devil. he admitted he had a loaded assault rifle he would use to shoot the republican leader and he would consider poisoning him because boehner was mean to him at the country club. investigators say that hoyt admitted to sending an email total his wife. and he said he could have poisoned his wine many, many times. his spokes prn released the statement, speaker boehner is aware of the situation and thanks the fbi local authorities in ohio for their efforts. >> and hoyt is in custody undergoing psychiatric evaluations and is charged with trying to kill the speaker

marci gonzalez abc news, new york. >>> a 27-year-old man says it's a miracle he's alive today.ou'll see why. caleb whitby trapped in his pick-up, sandwiched between two rigs. it was part of a 26-vehicle pileup in eastern oregon on saturday. he said he saw what was happening but there was nothing he could do. >> as soon as he jack-knifed i shifted down and pushed my brakes. being on black ice there's no chance, what can you do? so i tried to steer to the right side of the road and ended up hitting the trailer. when i hit it shut my pick-up off, so i was pretty much helpless there. as soon as that came to stop, i looked out my passenger window on the right side and saw semi lights coming towards me. >> you see his head there. >> incredible. >> he's very fortunate to be alive. amazingly, he walked away from the wreck with just a bruise and a few scratches. about a dozen people were hurt, but nobody was killed. it probably took some time to pry him out of that. >> absolutely. >>> let's get a check on our forecast. >> it is going to be warming up steadily throughout the week and by

marcy gonzalez has a preview. >> anybody need a ride to the big game?he big game's other big competition. >> what happened? >> barry hit me in the nose with a football. >> reporter: many releasing football ads online. budweiser's latest lost puppy commercial already viewed poremore than 11 million times on&ñ youtube. kim kardashian's selfie spoof watched by more than 8 million. >> it's about generating that big bang now it's about having extended conversation around their spot. >> reporter: that conversation backfiring for one company. godaddy releasing this commercial. >> i'm so glad you made it home. because i just sold you on this website. >> reporter: only to pull it from the super bowl after a major backlash on twitter. >> as far as i can tell, there's never been an ad pulled from the super bowl. this is really quite a situation on godaddy's hands. >> reporter: the company says they will air something in that commercial's place. other advertisers also choosing to keep their ads a surprise for the big game. as always, the price tag is huge. with the

as abc news reporter marcy gonzalez shows us, snow is falling in parts of the u.s.reezing temperatures. >> reporter: when the temperature drops so low that fountains freeze in florida, you know cold doesn't begin to describe how they're feeling farther north. >> it's uncomfortable. i hate it. can't wait for spring. >> reporter: more than half the country is dealing with this brutal blast of arctic air. with record-breaking lows from new england to the gulf coast. windchills in chicago and elsewhere dropping to 15 to 25 degrees below zero. >> i would much rather have six or eight inches of snow rather than what we're going to be facing. >> reporter: not a snow day, but a cold day, for more than 1 million students nationwide whose schools closed today. >> kind of a mixed feeling. >> reporter: safety is a big concern for people who work outside, including firefighters in new jersey whose battle with flames turned into a serious struggle with ice. and in parts of the country that haven't dug out from the snow earlier this week, driving today is especially dangerous. >>

abc news reporter marcy gonzalez has a look at this monster storm moving in. >> reporter: the flakesalready falling, and the worst is yet to come. >> it is a serious blizzard. it should not be taken lightly. >> reporter: from philadelphia through new england, this massive blizzard is expected to bring up to several feet of snow. >> i'm hoping for less but ethink we're really going to get hammered. >> reporter: a key concern, the wind, with gusts predicted to be above 50 miles an hour, bringing whitesout conditions and the potential for widespread power outages. >> this will most likery be one ryly lily be one of the largest. >> reporter: only salt trucks snow plows and emergency vehicles will be allowed on the roads toint. the same in connecticut. >> i have signed a travel ban for the entire state. >> reporter: also in preparation, lots of cancellations from flights to votes on capitol hill and nba games postponed, and with so many schooling and businesses closing tomorrow, now the last-minute lines. >> hot chocolate here. thank you for waiting. >> reporter: and this scramble to stoc

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abc's marci gonzales reports from manhattan. >> the worst of the storm is now moving in and by morning much of the northeast could be buried beneath a few feet have of snow this will most likely be one of the largest blizzard in the history of new york city. >> reporter: that prediction prompted a level of response, bridges and tunnels in new york city shut down for everything but emergency vehicles. subways and a lot of commuters trains are not running either. >> when they say go home early, go home early or you will not get home. >> reporter: so many took that advice with similar travel bans now in place in new jersey, connecticut and massachusetts. several major airports in the northeast closed. ripple effect being felt nationwide. >> i'm exhausted and annoyed. i just want to go home. >> reporter: not just snow causing problems. >> it is supposed to get bad. >> reporter: wind gusts could be up to 75 miles an her leading to white out conditions and potential for widespread power outages. >> this is going to be a significant storm. >> if you are not taken it lightly. >> reporter: stud

marcy gonzalez, abc news, new york. >> thank you for that.earing from two legendary local quarterbacks on this football controversy. stay tuned and hear what joe theismann and john riggins have to say coming up ahead in sports. >> and riggins is funny about it actually. a little tease ahead. >> i would expect nothing less from him! >> i know. classic riggins. >> all right. so what have we got ahead of us? said two times here. >> two systems, the biggest one is tomorrow night and saturday. that will produce lesser amounts of snow and ice. smaller storm and alberta clipper on monday may produce a little more. that's the way it works. it's all about temperatures. that's the key. not going to be cold enough this weekend to get a bigger snow storm out of this one. let's get you started. first, take you to oakdale high school. this is in southern frederick county maryland. early morning shot plenty of snow on the ground. fog in the air. took a couple of hours, fog lifted skies cleared and the winds came up. the temperatures got above freezing and t

marcy gonzalez, abc news, new york. >> we're going to be looking at this as an extended operation. >>ong painful search for the annapolis couple and their four grandchildren in the charred remains of a multimillion dollar mansion. outpouring of love for those feared loss. >> he died a hero. that's what a woman is telling us about her husband killed before her very eyes. police say by her ex-husband. >> and the demand for answers after a deadly incident in metro. big question that metro's chairman says he can't answer. but first winter weather alert that has the potential to have an impact on the morning and evening commutes tomorrow. >> that despite the m temperatures outside most of today. chief meteorologist doug hill on storm watch now and joins us with when we could see this snow. doug? >> here we go again. it looks like tomorrow sometime during the rush hour towards 9:00 is when the steadier precipitation will begin and be with us for the good portion of the day. in advance of this the weather service has posted a winter weather advisory for the areas shaded in purple. south and

marcy gonzales has the latest. >> reporter: the intense manhunt for the two gunmen responsible for the deadly terror attack in prayers. police closing into an area northeast of city after a possible citing. it was the brothers they say that stormed into the offices of the newspaper office charlie hebdo killing 12 people before making their escape. they have ties to al qaeda and appear to be highly trained. the younger brother was featured in the documentary as an aspiring rapper convicted on terror charges that put him in prison for a year and a half. a younger man turned himself into police confessing to being a part of the attack on charlie hebdo hebdo, a newspaper that mocked religion and islamic extremists. >> around the globe mourning and signs of solidarity. >> i am charlie. anywhere you are in the world this is a tragic event. >> charlie hebdo's publishers will release the newspaper on time. an ultimate sign that the terrorists didn't win. >>> overseas strong currents and murky waters have curtailed efforts to recover the black boxes of flight 8501, they tried to search the tail

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marcy gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> the deadline has come and gone. and it's about to come up again. >> still ahead here find out if d.c. streetcar line will open up next week as planned. >> then a little later, why the woman who seemed to be center of the rough start to the nation's health care overhaul is back in the news again. >> plus solving a decades old mystery about what happened to a spacecraft heading to mars. >> but first, water shooting out of a broken >> essentially what i've learned from this report is the preliminary report, the initial fact finding by the ntsb on what happened here on monday at l'enfant plaza that there were actually two trains that were impacted and passengers of both trains as well as passengers on the platform were with heavy smoke here. investigators inspected the area of incident and also provide pictures in this preliminary report of the third rail. they say they observed severe electrical arcing damage to the third rail and electrical cables about 1100 feet ahead of the trains, one of the trains impacted and str

marcy gonzalez has more on that and the aftermath of the storm. >> digging out from under three feet of snow. >> i can't do it. there's no way. not going to happen. >> stephanie turner is one of the millions of people in new england coping with wind chills in the single digits today all while trudging through the aftermath. >> so hard to walk. >> of the blizzard that battered some communities for 14 consecutive hours. >> for the most part despite the fact that we had record-breaking snowfall in many parts of massachusetts, we've come out of this, i think, invely good shape. >> it sure doesn't feel that way for the coastal communities in massachusetts still dealing with frozen floodwaters. thousands of people still without electricity. wind gusts up to 80 miles an hour to blame in some places while elsewhere, the power lines are simply frozen. >> we had shoveled through the generators. >> there's still a lot shovelling going on from long island and queens, new york. >> you get a workout. >> every day i do. i'm not as young as i used to be. >> up through new england. where they're work

marcy gonzalez tells us what the league now says about that investigation and what patriot players said about the scandal as they prepare for the super bowl. >> the nfl sharing new insight into the so-called deflate gate investigation. saying the evidence thus far supports the conclusion that the footballs that were underinflated were used by the patriots in the first half explaining, however, the footballs were in compliance by the second half of sunday's afc championship game. now, investigators are trying to figure out who or what is to blame. >> i didn't alter the ball in any way. >> patriots star quarterback tom brady denies any involvement. so does the head coach bill belichick. >> i was completely and totally unaware of any -- >> today other teammates are not only defending them, they're laughing off the controversy. >> this is getting out of control. >> it's not just the patriots and fans questioning all the attention they're getting. >> this is so stupid. >> other nfl stars are chiming in calling the scandal a manufactured pre super bowl distraction. >> when you're up in their

>>reporter: then marcy gave her bag to another chemo patient. >> she broke down and cried and so did i, and i just wanted someone else to feel the love in the chemo bag. >> we laugh more than anything, but we also cry together. >>reporter: vicki and susie embrace it as a gift from god. >> it's been very eye opening and very humbling. >> as long as people have cancer and as long as we're able, we'll keep doing it. >>reporter: so for giving chemotherapy patients comfort and hope, this week's jefferson award in the bay area goes to vicki gos and susie folks. sharon chin, kpix5. >> and you can find a link to the chemo care bag's facebook page online at kpix.com/heroment >>> let's go back out live now to the golden gate bridge which is closed and under construction this morning under foggy skies. you can see we are looking at the toll plaza there. they've already started to install the moveable median barrier, that is the purpose for this whole project to prevent head-on collisions. they are well on their way. here's another angle. this is from our camera that is perched atop the toll pla

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marci gonzalez has the details. >> reporter: the packed jetblue plane heading down the runway of new york's jfk airport at full speed. >> 1295, cleared for takeoff. >> reporter: out of nowhere, another plane caribbean airways flight 526 crosses right in to its path. air traffic controllers repeatedly calling out to the caribbean airways pilots. >> 526 stop! caribbean 526? >> reporter: no response from the cockpit and at the last second the jetblue plane ordered to brake. >> abort takeoff. >> crazy. the brakes went on, slammed on. >> plane came to a screeching stop and slid a little bit and everyone panicked. >> reporter: these close calls increasingly common, up 20% since 2011. the faa says there are on average three so-called runway incursions every day. just last month, the wings of these two planes collided at new york's la guardia airport, part of one breaking off. last year in barcelona, this scare on the runway was caught on camera. >> very busy airports it depends on everybody doing everything right. we haven't put any new technology in. the increase in air traffic means we ha

marcy gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> we've got three breaking stories right now at 5:00. the first an unraveled plot to attack the u.s. capitol. >> plus an explosion injures three people at a local shopping center. what we've just learned about the investigation. >> and a major shakeup at the secret service as five high ranking officials are shown the door. and we're going to begin with that story unfolding within the half-hour. an isil sympathizer taken into custody accused of plotting a major attack on the u.s. capitol. >> here's a live look at the capitol where congress just returned for a new session about a week ago. horace holmes is live tonight in our newsroom with the breaking details that we are just learning about this. horace? >> we just received the criminal complaint from the u.s. court. the f.b.i. revealing a lot of the information. they were the main investigating force behind this. and the arrest was made today in cincinnati, ohio. f.b.i. agents taking in a gentleman by the name of christopher lee cornell. and he goes by an alias and he was using that on t

marcy gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> right now a winter weather alert after snowfall blankets much of the areaonditions this afternoon for a few folks. little trouble for most. tonight, the snow stopped falling leaving behind a wet mess for some areas. >> the question is whether those wet roads are at risk of freezing later. abc 7's chris pabst and jeff goldberg are out there monitoring the roadways in our affected areas right now. we'll check in with them in a moment. >> that's right. first, let's get the latest on th from our chief meteorologist doug hill in the storm watch weather center. doug doug? >> hey, leon and alison. we're as close to freezing as we can get. outside of the weather center many areas at or below freezing. some areas such as downtown washington and southern suburbs still above. this is key, the snow is gone. that's history. it's moved out. with temperatures below freezing for several hours tonight, then we have a chance for things glazing over and refreezing icy spots and slick patches to deal with. 34 in frederick. 36 in manassas. 31 in annapolis. 36 at reagan national