take the shot and send them to us at pics@wjla.com. dalles nice day -- doug: nice day today and nicer tomorrow. we hope the warm weather would coincide with the peak bloom. weather story. first, after 6:00. 62 at reagan national airport. live shot. view from the national harbor along the potomac. looking northward to downtown washington. south/southwesterly winds at 14. dry air. breezy. the winds are important to warms up. they will. 62 and 35. the high and the low today. 58 and 39 are the average. we are as hot here in this part of march we did 90 degrees in 18907. back the other way, too. cold as 17. happy to say the temperatures will b for the foreseeable future. if you are around taking beautiful weather pictures of the cherry blossom. send it to us at pics@wjla.com. we'll share them on-air, online, many as we can. lower 60's across the region. 64 in fredericksburg and charlottesville. it's 61 in baltimore. 61 in lexington park. clear to partly cloudy. overnight lows are averaging ten degrees warmer than last night and the night bef

send your favorites to us at pics@wjla.com. alison: of course this is one of the busiest weeks of year for metro. a week and a half after the cable fire shed light on the state of the metro system a new call for accountable it. that fire near the mcpherson square station led metro to shut down the entire system as you will remember for those emergency inspections. that was last wednesday. stephen tschida covering metro tonight after today's board meeting. stephen: a lot of customers concern find out the cable responsible for the fire is the same that caused the deadly l'enfant fire. and paul wiedefeld said he questions whether those entrusted to repair the cables are saying they are doing the work and not doing it. fire near the mcpherson metro station caused major delays for commuters and eventually shut the system down for a full-day inspection. the cause is a faulty cable just like the one that led the fire at l'enfant that led to a woman's death. >> i think about the things that have happened to other people. stephen: the f

share of a beautiful image that laura barker sent to us at pics@wjla.com. cherry blossoms this morning. jefferson memorial in the background. before the cold front came in we hit 72 at the reagan national airport. 62 was the morning low. the temperatures have started to drop. the average high up to 59 degrees. average low is 40 degrees. at the moment it's 65 at the reagan national airport. the northwest winds draw cool high air. drier air as well. 63 in leesburg. mid-60's in the area. 70 in fredericksburg. wind speed at the last check. sustained winds at west/northwest at 21 miles per hour. manassas, leesburg, winchester is lighter south and west. the winds will stay up to 10 and 12 miles per hour tonight. they will diminish a bit. look at the temperatures falling to 39 in columbus. 46 in charleston, west virginia. 41 in pittsburgh. colder air on the way pushing the warm air out of the way. some numbers are cooler. 60 degrees. plenty of sunshine. areas of the light cloudiness clearing out tonight. it will be cooler. we will have a lot of sunshine. getting th

share them with us at pics@ wjla.com. air,ight see them on the but not on a vhs tape. none of us have a vcr. steve: can you imagine that, the movie was called "freddy got fingered," and he got fingered. day, leon,as a nice 67 degrees the current temperature at reagan national airport. looking down pennsylvania avenue, there are the cherry blossoms, 77 was the high earlier today, well above average for this time of year, normally with temperatures near 59 degrees. , 70's leesburg, 70's manassas, 71 fredericksburg at this hour. a little the bay, cooler with the wind out of the south. the reason you see the 52 is the wind over the chesapeake is about 10, 20 miles per hour, but nothing like we had earlier in the day. if your allergies are bothering you, blame it on the trees. mold, weeds are absent, nothing to worry about right now. the areas and blew off to the north and west, that is behind the front. a cold front is moving our way tomorrow. in the morning, we have a better chance of showers, maybe even some isolated thunderstorms. not expecting anything severe. in d.c.,

e-mail us at pics@wjla.com. doug: cherry blossoms if they aren't in full, spring is around the corner. the peace bloom will start tomorrow and the average for the years is april 4. we are running ahead. here are the dates of the peak blooms. april 10, april 9 the year before that. march 20. enjoy the weather. the trees are the moderate range. low level of mold spores. weeds are too early in the season. we are irly wind at 16 miles per hour. the air is very, vir dry. we will still drop to mid-40's in the area. mildest night we have had is a number of days. it's 63 in manassas and leesburg. 61 in winchester. 62 in martinsburg. 59 in hagerstown. 62 in andrews. improving weather portion to a southerly and southwesterly flow of winds. the winds will flare up tomorrow and get gustier and bring us more warm air. through this evening we will be outside. need a jacket for sure. we will drop in 50's. 53 degrees by midnight. early in the morning it will be dropping to the 50's in the 40's. winds will turn south and to the

if you see it, we will be happy -- send it to us at pics@wjla.com. the temperatures climbing. upper 50's to the lower 60's. 61 in manassas. 64 in fredericksburg right now. high pressure moved out of the way to the east. turned from the southwest. lower 70's. the warmth will build more to look for high of 75 degrees on the day on thursday. on friday, possible shower in the morning. cold front late thursday or friday morning. to give us 60% chance of the scattered showers. 65 on saturday afternoon. plenty of sunshine and 62. sunday, easter sunday. we may pull it off without any rain until after sunset the way it chance of showers monday morning. 67. back to sunshine. pleasant temperatures tuesday. jonathan: the easter bunny appreciates not having rain to deal with. doug: it's difficult. he has to wear special bools. that's what i heard. michelle: coming up at "abc7 news at 4:00" -- ready to pop. as we get closer to the peak bloom, find out where the original trees still stand today. >> later for us -- fighting for the right to be buried at arlington. the next step in the process

at the photo gallery getting a lot of attention at wjla.com. look at the pooches. it's all about the puppies. it's national puppy day. e-mail us your puppy pictures. pics@wjla.com. to get them included. adorable! scott: trending right now, you know parents will do anything to save their kids. how often do little kids have a chance to save their parents? alison starling is here with the story of a 5-year-old who is being hailed as a hero. alison: well, scott, this all happened in a day at the pool. this was on spring break in texas. with her mother tracy and tracy had a seizure. the whole thing was caught on the surveillance camera. alison notices that her mom isn't moving and is just floating there. so she climbs in the pool. she drags her mom to the side. and then she runs inside to find her aunt for help. >> she was really heavy. i could only get the top part of her out. the other daughters ran over to help me get her out. so allison was able to do it on her own. it's a miracle. >> hands down i feel like she saved my life. alison: tracy was released from the hospital last night. that is great news last night. doctors say if she had stayed in the water even jus

take the picks and send them to us at pics@wjla.com. em for those of us here during the day and can't get down there. alison: the weather is spectacular. doug: gorgeous. norm is gorgeouser. it's 75, 76 of tomorrow. get started with the time lapse. first stop is in centreville. bull run. 76 there right now. through the days we have had clouds. the clouds have slowed the rise in the temperatures for a while this morning. but through the midday, the skies opened up and turned bright and sunny. the temperatures responded nicely. just a beautiful afternoon right now. not a ton of sun out there. enough. along the southerly winds to push the temperature to 76 degrees. 'll beautiful shot from harrison jones. look at this. a beautiful picture. submit them to pics@wjla.com. cherry blossoms. beautiful scene. all right. now here is what will happen. we still have one more day here. not only to enjoy the warm temperatures but to enjoy or suffer through they are really climbing right now. the gusty winds and the dry air really make it rough. if you ar

e-mail us the pictures at pics @wjla.com. two great days ahead of us.lison: speaking of how many cherry blossom festivals we have been through together -- brian: a lot. alison: our favorite time of year. brian: some excited because of spring break for the kids in the tourists inhe town for the peak bloom. and we have this amazing shot from john sonderman, just gorgeous. take some pictures if you can. send them over to us. if you send them to us, we will share them. a number that we don't like to see is the pollen number. category over the weekend, but the cooler air the moisture push that down somewhat. alan the moderate range for trees. weedsis low, mold is low, are absent. the temperatures are in the 50's most locations. , 57 warrentonrg to 49 overnight, comfortable. the high pressure across the southeast, as that happens with the wind from the south, southwest, that will pump up the mild temperatures and make for a nice stretch. of warm air will be with us through the day tomorrow, mild temperatures in the 70's. late thursday into friday, clouds move

us at the station. send it to pics@wjla.com. michelle: this just in to the abc7 newsroom. president obama signed disaster declaration for maryland and d.c. because of january's blizzard. that means federal funding will be available for the state and local governments and some non-profit groups. jonathan: we are tracking a developing story out of northern virginia where several schools were forced to respond for calls for bomb threats today. weird calls. seven schools received robo-call threats. one in arlington, another in falls church, one in loudoun county. no credible threats were found and no one injured. michelle: in the last two hours, deonte carraway appeared in a federal courtroom to answer to child pornography charges. brad bell was also in the courtroom. and joins us live with the details of carraway's >> there was an indictment monday. 13 counts of the exploitation of the children to produce child pornography. federal authorities say carraway has given them a written confession. in court today he entered not guilty plea to each of those charges. the former teach

us this of the jefferson memorial. there are a gallery of pictures at wjla.com. e-mail your pictures to pics@wjla.com. >> a developing story out of wharton where police found a woman accused of ramming her car into another car this morning. this happened just after 7:00 a.m. on ox road. police say the woman was driving a red convertible and she hit a man's car intentionally. he drove to a nearby parking lot and tried to check out the damage. she tried to hit his car again they say. the man wasn't hurt but claims the woman yelled at him for being isis. we'll have more on coming up at 5:00. news from the district. there is arrest in the case of a 9-year-old boy shot in the head. jennifer donelan has covered jaydan stancil story since it happened. she joins us live with a break in the case. jennifer: the news a family has been waiting for. our viewers have been following the case from the beginning. we have been cheering him on after he received a near fatal wound, a bullet to the head while playing outside in october of 2014 at the may fair mansions apartment complex. gunfire broke out. jaydan