along the canal, mike carter-conneen, abc7 news. michelle: all right. bill: i usually go on that role. better safe than sorry. you want that three or four inches to be super safe. i have gone out occasionally and drilled within areas i have gone out to make sure. jonathan: crazy thing in minnesota one year we drove cars out there. you think to yourself why are we doing this again? bill: right! i got to look back. i think you do that if it's a solid eight inches or more. i think that is what it is. i'd have to look at technical guide. once you get to a foot you can put a tank on it. that is it. this is a quiet evening but man is it cold. 19 in gaithersburg right now. manassas is 14. wind chill factors play a role with the single digit wind chills around the area. 5 in detroit. 28 around charlotte. this is what i want to focus on. jump ahead to tomorrow night to thursday morning. so this is 11:00 p.m. not tonight. tomorrow night. we are watching a weather system work on in. here in the d.c. metro we are on the far western edge of where that snow possibili

mike carter-conneen, abc7 news. alison: heartbreaking thing there. this story is next. an indiana fifth grader and the letter to president trump getting national attention. >> dear president trump. this is joy wolf of and i'm 11 years old and the president of the fifth grade class. >> joy was elected class president. it. a group of boys formed an opposition group. popularity problem she thought someone else could relate to. >> a lot of people are unhappy with me being president and a lot of people are unhappy with you being president. that's okay. the boys were mad at me and all i was trying to do was make fifth grade great again. [laughter] alison: joy says the advice to the president for handling criticism is not to make a big deal out of it. a white house official told joy's mother that they plan to mention that letter in tomorrow's press briefing. which they will do from time to time, of course. so we'll have to be listening for that. larry: make fifth grade great again. alison: clever. larry: special hats for the boys to wear. alison: exactly. larry: muriel bowser

at the white house, mike carter-conneen, abc7 news. larry: update with the new years behind us you might spend this week taking down the christmas tree. cries in silver spring did that. the holiday good energy tree adorned with the bicycles of all kinds. now the two-wheel ornaments are donated to family in need. nancy: doesn't christmas feel like a month or two ago? larry: it does already. cold weather. nancy: it is the cold. bill: you were telling the story i'm thinking not only have i not taken my tree down, i haven't even considered yeah, i should start talking about taking it down. i said alex have you done yours? he said no and i said if you'll leave yours up i'd feel better about not taking down mine. reagan feels like 9. that is one of the warmer spot in the area. the fools like temperature heading our direction. the storm is well north. for the most part it's coming to an end. we move ahead to the feels like temperature. this is 11:00. by that time everybody is for the most part at zero or lower. watch through the overnight hou

in southwest washington, mike carter-conneen, abc7 news. li about the i-team investigation faking the grade. if you know about the grade fixing, inflated graduation rates, let us know. you can e-mail us or call the confidential tip line. michelle: we have live stormwatch7 team coverage tonight as a bitter cold sticks around and we brace for snow. jonathan: palm trees in the snow. this is charleston, south carolina. a winter storm exploding in strength. it's hammering the southeast and marbling ever so close. michelle: new details about a brutal murder that left a couple dead and what the court documents reveal about the suspect that night. >> now, "abc7 news at 6:00ment" on your side. jonathan: well, the latest snow totals are in. we could get two inches of snow in the district. even more south and east of us. michelle: terry mcauliffe declared a state of emergency for virginia. bottom line here is even if you don't see snow, it will still have bone effects. we are talking temperatures. >> it's been so cold. stormwatch7's chief meteorologis

i'm mike carter-conneen with steve: all right. moving through the everything hours.u are outside, gran an umbrella. temperatures slowly fall to the 50's with the mild everything ahead. falling temperatures are early saturday morning. in the 30's. only around freezing on summed. coming up we will look at the seve larry: all aboard to elvis express. hundreds of elvis fans boarding two trains to attend the annual elvis festival in australia. the event in the 26th year. this year's theme honored his 1968 comeback special. thank you very much. alison: thank you very much. a rare baby entering the bu park zoo. take a look at this baby a -- orangutan. a little girl. fewer than 100 of the endangered species in north america to make at it significant moment to help them thrive. oh, boy. larry: this is when the reporter becomes the story. the bbc correspondent trying to do a piece on the british zoo animal count when he was mauled by a group of lemurs. he tried to distract them and finally he did taping with several on his shoulders and tell bows. -- the elbows. alison: gave u