today is the five-year anniversary of the middle of snowmageddon. coming up in a little less than 30 minutes, i'll take you down memory lane with some video. who can forget? >> i can close my eyes and see it like it was yesterday. >> i got stories! >> me, too. >> 10 straight hours that night. >> at least! >> it could be worst what we're feeling right now is what you're saying. >> yes. >> it will put warmth into our day today. a u.s. navy photographer snapped this beautiful picture of a rainbow. this is from the deck of the u.s.s. john c. dennis. aircraft carrier was in the pacific when this picture happened. beautiful. >> jealous. nice play to go for a jog. >> yeah. absolutely. >> all right. back to the traffic here. let's see how things are looking right now. looks like bob is looking at 270. what's that look like, bob? >> not too bad out there now, leon, on the inner loop out of tysons heading on 270 is some volume. 270 itself bogs down a bit from montgomery village in germantown towards clarksburg. 95 traveling south, only briefly slower over to

snowmageddon gave us about 11 inches of snow 23 inches total. one of the snowiest februarys we've had on record at least since records have been kept. nothing like that today. we talked to runners out there. one woman said she wished she had worn a tank top. i don't know about that personally. later today who knows? we may indeed see some tank tops. we're live in arlington, derrick ward news 4. back to you. >>> a prince george's county man is behind bars this morning for allegedly killing his neighbor. rudolph phelps is accused of killing 61-year-old karen siegman. police say the neighbors got into an argument that turned violent. she was found when police did a welfare check on friday. >>> a developing story right now, the united arab emirates is joining jordan in the fight against isis. the uae sent a squadron of f-16 fighters to jordan to take part in air strikes against the militant group. jordan stepped up air strikes after isis release add video showing a captured jordanian pilot being burned to death in a cage. > virginia is considering e

. >> snowmageddon. pointing fingers when only new england gets walloped. what explain this is blizzard of fear. i'm howard kurtz and this is "#mediabuzz". >>> if mitt romney was testing the waters for another presidential bid, the reaction ranged from eye rolling to outright hostility. >> i feel like i'm taking crazy pills at the idea of mitt romney running again. i think it's a terrible idea. >> romney is like a loafer, casual sweater. i want somebody who -- a charismatic persuasive republican. >> the consensus was that mitt was start is to stay out, that another campaign didn't make much sense. >> after much back and forth, two time presidential candidate mitt romney decided not to run again. but candidly, it was a stretch for even loyal republicans to picture romney making a third try. >> this is not going to be a good race for him and it was going to hurt the party. >> mitt romney knows he could never be a candidate for the middle class because of his history. can't change who he is. >> joining us now to examine the impact of the unfavorable coverage o

. >> five years ago yesterday was snowmageddon last time we had any real snow around here all at oncefor today, no snow to worry about. te will be above freezing all day. so if you're work to go walk or school cloudy sky, chilly temperatures upper 30s and low 40s. coming home have either a hood or umbrella. temperatures will climb up into the low 40s. if you want to check the radar, have 9the weather app ready to go. >>> southbound at 175, still a multivehicle crash in the way. five mile backup approaching that. two other problems have now cleared out of the way, so that is good. 66 east at 50 we have a crash there. you can see some slow downs as you approach there. otherwise travel times looking not so bad. 95 north quantico to the beltway, 32 minutes.ir county parkway to the beltway, 25 minutes. and maryland 270 south germantown to the beltway 19. outer loop a little slow 95 to 270, 22 minutes. >>> making sure you're paying attention when you get behind the wheel. mistakes police will be looking for as they step up patrols at one busy intersection in northern virginia. >>> plus be c

this was snowmageddon. these images forever embedded in our memories. we had 17 to 25 inches of snow that piled up in that twy period. friday and saturday and then came the wind and a lot of power outages. we have a chance to pick up a little snow over the next couple days. 7:00 this evening, our temperatures still in the upper 40s. that still puts us above the average. we make that change after midnight. temperatures drop and they will continue to drop throughout the day tomorrow. itone. not only cold but it's going to be windy. wake up weather for tomorrow, 29 to 35. gusting with wind chills early on. 25 degrees. the windchill ratings are going to get lower and lower throughout the day tomorrow. at 7:00 a.m. you have 16 in gaithersburg. by lunchtime, and even during the afternoon, teens, yes, but as we get from 3:00 into the evening hours tomorrow these single digits will be more common across the area. just like what we had a couple days ago where it was brutally cold and windy. future weather, this is a look at the quick hitting system that will com

we saw what snowmageddon did. heavy snow will be north of atlanta but too close to call right now. >> a dusting in atlanta shuts that city down. >> i know. >> chad myers, thanks very much. it will be serious for a bunch. people down there. >> the temperatures alone are painful enough. >>> coming up for us, international intrigue. did israeli prime minister mislead the united nations when he says iran was dangerously close to building a nuclear bomb? we have newly released documents suggesting just that. details ahead. >>> also ahead, the clock is ticking. another countdown clock. just two days left before the department of homeland security is set to run out of money. why? congress. there may be a solution in the works. what is it? that's ahead "at this hour." ♪ nineteen years ago, we thought, "wow, how is there no way to tell the good from the bad?" so we gave people the power of the review. and now angie's list is revolutionizing local service again. you can easily buy and schedule services from top-rated provid

snoe snowmageddon. that disaster from a year ago. thanks for being with us.eague, wolf blitzer, and his team are pulling together breaking news for you and will take over the torch right now. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer in washington. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. we're starting with breaking news out of new york city right now. the fbi has three men in custody, men who were planning, they say, to fly to turkey and then join up with isis in syria. our justice reporter, evan perez, is joining us from new york. he's got details. this is a very disturbing development. tell us first of all about these three men who have just been arrested. >> we're talking about three men who were planning to travel to turkey with eventual plans to join isis in syria. the fbi says one of them was arrested early this morning as he was trying to board a plane at jfk airport here in new york. another one was arrested in florida and another one here in brooklyn. the allegation from the fbi is that these three w

they're calling it snowmageddon.t feels like we're under assault by mother nature. >> thank you for some perspective on this, appreciate your time tonight. >> my usual commute from western massachusetts to new york. i go home on the weekends and come here monday morning. i leave at about 8:00 in the morning and then i'm at my office by noon. i left early, about 7:30 yesterday morning in order to get to work. i arrived in my office at 7:45 p.m. that's how long it took to get here. in part because we now live in a snow cave. in massachusetts, if you don't believe the pictures, they're for real, it is like nothing i have ever seen. stay with us, we'll be right back. ♪ during its first year, a humpback calf and its mother are almost inseparable. she lifts her calf to its first breath of air, then protects it on the long journey to their feeding grounds. one of the most important things you can do is help the next generation. at pacific life, we offer financial solutions to accomplish just that. ask a financial advisor ab

. >> we have so much -- we cannot blame of snowmageddon. >> we can't complain after yesterday. >> 68 degrees. tied a record high. >> temperatures are falling all day. we have chance of icy stuff overnight. big story to me is two potent arctic cold fronts one on thursday and one on saturday night. let's get ready for this. this is the winter weather advisory prince george's county has been added to the group. shaded in the lovely tone of purple of periwinkle that you see there. in effect 5:00 in the morning across the bay to the eastern shore and expires at 3:00 a.m. in the northern and western suburbs now. we have rain moving into the area now. temperatures are falling. when we get to 32 or below on the ground that's when we'll see the possibility of freezing rain. we'll get after midnight 2:00, 3:00, 4:00 in the morning? then we'll see precipitation types. sleet and snowflakes in spots. for the moment kind of patches but there's a lot more farther south through the carolinas that will be converging along this cold front come through. we're well above freezing in most areas now. inte

. >> no i mean, the closest we've had what they have in new england is snowmageddon five years ago. >> no sign of it around here? >> no i think we'll get the little stuff. little bits and pieces. a little snow, sleet and freezing rain and we're at it again tonight. let's get busy and tell you the story. we start with the time lapse, weather bug network in the district. just cloudy all day. that's been it. the rain now starting to move into the area in the form of a little drizzle here and there. that's about it. as far as temperatures go we've got ourselves numbers mainly in the 30's right now. and we're slowly going to drop through the evening hours. get better situated to point the towns out for you. rockville, college park ashburn and falls church well above freezing. that's the key. you have to get up to northern carroll county maryland to find the closest area to washington that has temperatures at or below freezing. with that said the potential is there for temperatures to drop tonight. because of that, there's a possibility for some areas of freezing rain north and west of the

think about snowmageddon. you really want that again? >> it could be worse. >> ok doug. thank you. >> whatever works. >> coming up here on abc 7 news at 5:00 the newest trend in photography banned? why some museums are saying no excuse me to those selfie sticks. what the smithsonian says about it. >> plus, it's being called an unprovoked attack. it has a neighborhood in fear tonight. plus the new push to prevent measles outbreaks lik >> new measles fears tonight after five children at a chicagoland daycare have been diagnosed with the measles. but what's not clear yet is whether these cases are connected to the 100 or so cases that are tied to an outbreak in disneyland in california. >> as john erlichman reports, what is clear is there's a growing push now to toughen the nation's vaccination laws. >> after a santa monica childcare center was diagnosed with measles, officials shut the doors. 14 babies are now in quarantine. >> it's so easy to catch. >> as california deals with its largest measles outbreak in more than 15 years health officials in suburban c are investigat

it's not going to be snowmageddon two not going to be that. we're about low 30's right now. those numbers will fall dramatically through the evening. in fact, starting at midnight a wind chill advisory in effect straight through 10:00 a.m. friday morning. wind chills are going to be way below zero for a long period of time. coldest air mass we've seen in decades here in our area. lot more to share coming up in a few minutes. back to you. >> doug, thank you. moving on now to breaking news coming in from burke, virginia. fairfax county firefighters have just rescued a teenager out of an icy lake. the boy was near a concrete drainpipe in the lake on lake point drive and we're told that the teenager was brought to land without any problems. our stephen tschida is there on the scene and just spoke with the teenager himself. so you'll hear from stephen coming up on abc 7 news at 5:00 with that story. >> another water rescue around. people got to stay off the ice around. >> it's dangerous. >> the weather is causing plenty of problems in other parts of the northeast. >> as abc's mar

but as in any winter snowmageddon, there's always a silver lining. >> look at that!: now that townhouses on beacon hill are suitable for what our forefathers had in mind, ski in, ski out. from boston, emily rooney, wgbh, reporting for the "newshour". >> woodruff: the boston mayor is dealing with another annoyance brought on by the weather-- people filming themselves jumping out of windows into snow banks, and posting the videos on social media. filed under "don't try this at home," we have the story, on our home page. >> ifill: even snowfall can spark debate. some say it's proof global warming does not exist. others argue it is proof climate change is behind the extreme weather. it's just another example where science and doubt feed on each other. we wondered whether that divide, what you might call a culture of disbelief, is taking hold. >> i think every parent has a right to choose what is in the best interest of their children. if you go online and you read there's horrific stories. >> ifill: those stories are about vaccines and it's the kind of misinformation tha

this was of course snowmageddon that fell on parts of our region upwards of 18 inches in d.c. towards the dulles region. you know what happened. we saw school closures for a couple days by far one of the worst storms we've seen in our history around our area and that just closed out the 2009-2010 season as the snowiest season we've seen in this area. for you snow lover, yeah not a whole lot of snow going on in the next couple days but a lot of our snowstorms still come in the month of february or even early march so we still have time. now, outside today it's the wind. take a look at the -- i almost said the snowcaps on the water. that's how much i want snow. the white caps out there today. a little bit of wind for sure. take a look at what the wind is doing. 30 degrees, but that windchill at 16 right now. it is brutal outside, especially downtown through some of those taller buildings. actual temperatures 23 in gaithersburg 25 in martinsburg, 31 in fredericksburg. so a far cry from where we were during the day yesterday. it's all because of the winds. gusting upwards of 30 mi

in 2010 on the 6th and 5th of february, we had one of our snowmageddon thunderstorms. so big story now, the falling temperatures and wind advisory in effect across the entire region until midnight. temperatures that had been in the 40's in many areas will drop. these wind gusts will continue. 45-mile-per-hour gusts recently at dulles. 48 at manassas so a windy and cold night as temperatures fall between 16 and 21 degrees. brrrr! that's it, we'll be back in a few minutes with you guys. >> you got it doug. thank you, a man is charged with unlawful entry after allegedly climbing a bicycle rack outside of the white house. secret service agents arrested him and then turned him over to d.c. police. incident happened yesterday afternoon at a temporary bike rack set up on pennsylvania avenue. the rack is set back from the white house fence making it unlikely that anyone could use it to get over. >> an alarming court decision coming out of egypt today where 183 people have been sentenced to death. many of the suspects involved in this case are part of the muslim brotherhood. th

anyway, neil this did not rise to the level of snowmageddon or snowpocalypse snowpocalypse. it was more like snow big deal, stop freaking out. back to you. >> i'm so glad we put you second on top of the show. thank you, appreciate it. a lot of references, as well. now to janice dean who we tried to stick outside. but oh no miss all-important meteorologist can't do what other weather people do. >> okay, hang on. hang on. does this help? i was wearing a coat. >> no. >> earlier. >> we've got you in front of a green screen. quiet. here we go. look at this. this is -- you are responsible for this janice. >> listen. >> and no matter what it will not mask the pain for the country. >> i tried but my equipment failed. >> wardrobe malfunction. go ahead. >> take a look at the snowfall totals. yes, we had snow across the mid-south in kentucky at 14 inches. and d.c., i'm afried they got about five inches of snow. a little bit more than that, mr. rosen, with your car sachl. >> mr. smarty pants. >> i know, right? sarcasm. let's take a look at it. this is the system that has now exited and

we like to save the red for the good stuff, maybe snowmageddon, carmageddon. >> while the governments are closed, i think by afternoon maybe your neighborhood won't but a lot of the roads will be in much better shape. >> let's talk about snowfall totals. as we said south and east was the bull's eye. and that certainly bears it out. spotsylvania 10.5. columbia, maryland about 6 inches. lake ridge about 6 inches. you guys were in our 4 to 8 band. olney 5 inches. you were in the 5 to 8 band. those numbers make me feel a little bit better. here's a look at the radar. you can see the storm pulling away, although some of the moisture did make it up into portions of new england and down into new jersey. >> 2 to 5 up in the new york area. >> i wonder if they were forecasting that. agent bit of leftover snow to the north and west. the accumulating snow is pretty much gone. might have another skiff or so. again, nothing really to worry about. just kind of insult to injury at this point. to the south reedville, northern neck, you could still pick up a trace to a dusting over the next hour or so