Weather words here in the next few days is drip drip drip. That refers to the melting snow, the rain thats coming and possibly your chief meteorologist is a drip. You never know. Thats the story. Rain is not on the horizon yet. Melting is. Look at the potomac. Right before your eyes, the ice is melting. There will be a whole lot more of that around the area. Temperatures like this. 62 degrees at Reagan National now. 59 at washington dulles. 54 in frederick and nighttime temperatures will stay well above freezing. In fact were going to run probably a good five Straight Days and nights at least if not longer with temperatures above freezing. So everything is gone and melt off. In fact, coming up at 4 20 steve rudin will join me to talk more about the melting and if the rain might cause some problems here. This is the area of rain developing, low pressure pulling moisture right out of the gulf of mexico moving along the Conveyor Belt and its headed here and we will have rain and that is definitely going to be the weather story Going Forward for the next several days. Increasing cloudiness tonight. 44 for temperature late night. Rain looks like it will arrive around midday with temperatures about 45 degrees. Well fill it in. More team weather coming up in a couple of minutes. Got it. Now, a dump truck driver is in the hospital now fighting for his life after being trapped under ice and mud. This happened yesterday afternoon on glenn drive in sterling. The Loudoun CountySheriffs Office says he was attempting to remove ice when he fell out of his truck and wound up buried for more than an hour. Rescuers showed up and managed to pull him out of the ice and mud. The man was flown off to the hospital and we understand he has life threatening injuries. Alison . We have new details about what Police Officers found inside the home of a man accused in a series of shootings in maryland. That information revealed today in a bond review hearing for hong young. Maryland bureau chief brad bell live in hanover with more. Brad . Well alison you know there were shootings in Prince Georges County howard county. But here around arundel mills mall. The first shooting was right here on arundel mills boulevard. Bullet holes have been found in casino over there and hong young was arrested near the costco right over here. Today, mr. Young sits behind bars and he is going to stay there following a hearing in Anne Arundel CountyDistrict Court today. Much discussion about the weaponry that was found in mr. Youngs home. 10 guns, a crossbow and a lot of ammunition as well as whats being described as a backpack that had his passport some ammunition and a roll of toilet paper is he was prepared to flee the area. The judge said thats the reason to keep the man locked up. Multiple firearms that he possessed would present a danger to the community especially given the allegations in this case. With multiple random acts of shootings. Now, another thing that was discussed today was mr. Youngs mental health. We know that he told police that he was hearing voices that told him to shoot. When we come back at 5 00 well tell you much more about the role that could have played in this alleged crime spree. Near arundel mills, brad bell, abc 7 news. Firefighters are investigating a fire that destroyed a home in Calvert County that started just before 11 00 this morning on lake shore drive in owings. At least one person was rushed to hospital with burns. No word on their condition or what exactly started that fire. And happening now leon in Montgomery County police are investigating a deadly crash. Crews were called to darnes town road between west hunter road and dickerson road before 8 00 this morning. Police say three vehicles crashed. The crash killed 34yearold amy riggs of adams town in Frederick County. Three people were hurt. Darnes town road has since reopened. No word yet of what caused the crash. Its a crime thats angering many parents in the district as they drop off their children at a daycare only to return to their vehicles and find their personal items are gone. John gonzalez talked with parents about the problem. Imagine heading into work or dropping your child off at daycare and this happens. This is exactly what happened in this Community Building on Martin Luther king avenue in southeast d. C. Stole my tire and lug nuts. Broke my windshield out and got into my truck. The wheel and tire taken off ivan lanys car and while parents drop off their children at the daycare downstairs, a process that takes, what two or three minutes, their cars are broken into and ransacked. It seems individuals know the people who work here and they Work Schedules and theyre timing and casing cars. This mother has watched the apparent thieves in action. One morning, i parked right there. And they were standing right here and trying to open the door. At the time when parents were dropping off their children in the morning, you can see theres a long line of traffic here on mo morris headed to Martin Luther king avenue. The guys hanging out here in front of the school wait for that light to turn green so traffic is moving and perhaps, no one is watching. The parent was there and saw the young man breaking into her car. In one case temporary tags were ripped off the car and in another, a diaper bag was snatched from inside the vehicle. Come outside and your window is broken. Thats almost 300. Parents and staff have reached out to d. C. Police but this afternoon, were told no one has seen stepped up patrols in the area. In southeast, John Gonzalez abc 7 news. We received this response from d. C. Police about the breakins. Violent crime is down citywide 15 and thefts from auto is down 14 citywide. However, thefts in auto is up in the district. Thefts in auto is a crime of opportunity that can be prevented if you take away the opportunity. Alison . Leon pressure this afternoon on Hillary Clinton to respond to an email controversy stemming from her time as secretary of state. Senior political reporter scott thuman is live at the capitol hill bureau. Now, there are questions about how this could affect her possible president ial run of course. Thats right, alison. We have seen so often in politics where controversy is allowed to grow and grow. And that is exactly what we are seeing right now as critics of Hillary Clinton continue to ask why she had that private email address and server for use when she was secretary of state and if the 55,000 emails shes turned over now are all that are considered relevant. Today, then secretary Hillary Clinton was on stage. She was at an event in new york. She did not address the matter at all or make mention of it. But she was with her daughter chelsea who was questioned recently by the media about those emails. As reporters try to find out if there was anything improper or even illegal about the way then secretary clinton did business. Well, youll have to ask her about that. As her daughter we email about things like thanksgiving dinner and our plans to watch a movie on friday night. So in terms of her official emails, youll have to ask her. So many are wondering now at this point if we will see in the next day or two or at least this week Hillary Clinton address these concerns. Will she come out and talk with the media and answer a lot of these lingering questions . In the meantime the white house was asked some very interesting questions today about whether or not the president recognized when he was in emailing back and forth with Hillary Clinton that it was coming from a private email address. And if were there any concerns at that point about this matter . Well talk about that coming up tonight at 6 00. Meanwhile, reporting live on capitol hill, scott thuman abc 7 news. Thank you scott. Coming up on abc 7 news at 4 00 clock clock4 00 trouble for a former d. C. Fire inspector. How much money she admitted to taking from the department for per her personal use. Id like to turn to the newest addition of the apple family. Apple is ready to take a bite out of the wristwatch business. The features and how much it will cost next. Calls email and open up your hotel room. Thats a few things that you can do with apples new watch. The future is here right . Apples c. E. O. Tim cook unveiled the watch today. It will cost 349 for a base model. A luxury gold version will go for 10 grand. Cook called the apple watch the most personal device the company has ever created. Its on you. We designed apple watch to fit a whole variety of people. So the watch is considered a big gamble for apple since the smartwatch market is pretty sluggish. Some folks arent eager to pay hundreds of bucks for this new device. Typically when apple releases a new phone, you see lines all across the country. But will its new watch draw the same crowd . The apple watch will allow you to check your emails, Text Messages and calls and will cost at least 349 but will be available in stainless steel, silver aluminum and even 18 karat gold that could cost thousands of dollars. Will people buy it . We stopped dozens of people outside of the apple stores in georgetown and clarendon and had a hard time finding interested customers. Im not going to wear my computer on my wrist. I work for a living with my hands. It doesnt seem the least bit convenient. I have my phone near me and i find it awesome. If the price was right and had all the features that i actually wanted. Im not a technical guy and i think the phone does enough already. Having a watch do the same thing, it would be awesome. Youll be able to use some of the features without an iphone close by. But in order to use all the functions, youll still need an iphone 5. Diane cho, abc 7 news. Ok. We want your thoughts on the new apple watch. Would you wear it and would you pay hundreds of dollars or maybe more for it . Answer on our abc 7 Facebook Page and well share some of your responses a little bit later. All right. Time for a check of the traffic situation with bob emler in the wtop traffic center. How is it looking today . Not too bad for a monday. Well have a lot more sunshine today for an hour longer but as far as volume goes we filled out a bit about the georgetown pike up to 270 briefly through bethesda and Silver Spring in the usual spots there. But no incidents along the way. 270 had a crash northbound. Its out of the road now still getting attention. 9 95 traveling southbound doing all right. And beyond that the heaviest traffic getting down through stafford with the travel lanes open, lets take a look at some cameras and see how things look right now. Things are generally good on 66 heading out to the west. We have volume getting out through vienna and fairfax city headed to 123. Beltway and inner loop if you see the traffic headed towards georgia avenue. Im bob emler with 103. 5 wtop radio. Thank you, bob. All right. Doug is back. Hello. From a nice vacation. We missed you. Weve been here freezing our butts off and he comes back here with a tan to rub it in with. You see that . I know. It was a long winter yes. He deserves it. He deserves it. Listen, we dont have any need to worry about snow in the next seven days and i dont think we have worries about freezing temperatures. We have one concern that steve rudin will address in a few minutes. Lets start out with a look outside live. Take you to ocean city. Here we are, march 9th. March, april and may. Only a couple of months people will be playing on the beach. Hang in there. We have winter on the ropes. Cant declare the snowfree winter at this point. But things are looking up for us. For the beach, a little bit chilly. 60 degrees, not too shabby weatherwise. 64 in stafford. 58 degrees in helen and st. Marys county. 63 in the district. 46 61 in chantilly. At this moment 62 at Reagan National and andrews. So plenty of melting during the day. Aided by the sunshine. Plenty of warm enough temperatures overnight to continue melting in the overnight hours as well. What were going to keep our eyes on is developing storm center way down to the southwest. Pulling in gulf moisture northeastward right on a bead line right for our area. Now, the clouds are increase tonight. Well be cloudy tonight when you get up. Rain looks like theyll probably move in just about just about noontime tomorrow. Well get it from the southwest and watching it in areas of culpepper. The rain will move in there first and overspread through the metro area. This is what the futurecast does timewise. Cloudy at 7 00 a. M. And have the rain continue to advance across the Morning Hours and by midday, well see it making the move through the area and be very widespread and through the afternoon hours more periods of rain. Most of it will fall into wednesday morning. Theres the potential there for quite a bit of rainfall moving through the area. So theres melting and theres rainfall. Could that provide some issues . Lets find out from our steve rudin outside of our storm watch 7 Weather Center studios here in rosslyn. Not a whole lot of snow here in rosslyn. Last week thursday when youre enjoying your trip in warm erer weather, we were dealing with a lot of snow around here. All that is left right now if you look out there, not a whole lot due to the strong sun angle. This time of year even though here we are early march, the sun angle is the same as wed see the middle of october. So it does not take a long time for all the snow to start to melt. Bigger problems will come tomorrow when we get the rain and we could see upwards of an inch of rain by the time all is said and done by the middle of the week and this may pose some localized flooding especially up towards northern Montgomery County into Frederick County you can see the rain totals at least projects rain totals around the area for the next 48 hours and youll notice the heaviest of the rain to the north and thats where they had the most snow last week. What does that mean . It means you want to try to sweep away the snow from your sewers. To allow everything to drain properly. But be forewarned we could be looking at a little bit of flooding come tomorrow night into the day on wednesday. Major flooding, i wouldnt call it that. But as everything is going to melt and if you have not enjoyed the snow right now, you had better enjoy it because it is gone very, very quickly. Doug . Lets look at numbers the next seven days. 70 chance of rain. Clearing sunday into monday. Those are nice looking numbers and Pay Attention to the numbers in the bottom. Those are the overnight lows and you notice they all remain well above freezing. Youll hear drip drip drip during the morning and drip, drip, drip at night. Were ready for that. We want to hear the big melt. They call me the drip. The big drip. Exactly. Thanks doug. New details now about next weeks royal visit to washington on march 18th Prince Charles will address representatives from several Major Companies to talk about environmental waste and that same day his wife the duchess of cornwall will visit the Shakespeare Theater Company and in the next day, both of them will stop at Carlos Rosario charter school. And then coming up on abc 7 news at 4 00 7 on your side with a consumer alert for flight deals. What you need to watch out for when you book with Discount Airlines. And Video Services showing members of the fraternity chanting racial slurs. How the university of oklahoma has responded next. This afternoon, investigators are looking into what led to a crash that killed a Prince Georges County police officer. 26yearold officer Brennan Rabain lost control of his car while trying to make a traffic stop in lanham saturday morning. Tom roussey has more on the push for any witnesses to come forward. Here at 193 is where Prince Georges County police say they have a witness saying officer rabain flipped on the lights of his car to stop someone from going fast. By the time he reached that area down there he had crashed. He was an amazing person. Amazing father amazing officer. Chief Christopher Bell is with the private capital city special Police Department where Brennan Rabain went to the police academy. He was so impressed with him, he hired him. Rabain was later accepted by the Prince Georges County police. When he finally got that letter he was so excited to the point that he came up here and he said i made it. I got it. Prince georges county police say the 26yearold seen here on a web page to raise money for his young daughter had been with the department for almost two years. Around 3 00 a. M. Saturday he left this laurel apartment with his girlfriend. Police say she told him while on greenbelt road the offduty officer was trying to stop someone from driving unsafely when he crashed. Police think ice may have played a role. Theyre trying to find people in a bus and minivan seen in this video of rabains car taken before the crash. Its important for this Police Department and important for the community to find out what happened. Prince georges chief mark degall said Department Policy allows officers to drive civilians in their take home cars. Thats something we need to look at and evaluate. Is that still good policy today or isnt it . He and others say the department has lost a fine man. Hurting for my soul because of somebody that happened this close to somebody i really, really cared about. Police say rabains girlfriend who was involved in the crash is emotionally distraught but physically is ok. As of this afternoon, no one in the vehicle seen in that video with rabain had come forward. In lanham tom roussey, abc 7 news. A former inspector with the d. C. Fire department pleaded guilty to use her governmentissued credit card for her personal use. She admitted to purchasing more than 11,000 in gas for her personal vehicle. D. C. Bureau chief sam ford was inside d. C. Superior court for todays plea. At d. C. Superior court today former fire inspector kimberly pikner slipped out the side door after pleading guilty to fraud. We caught up with her at the metal detector as she tried to go next door. She was one of the d. C. Fire inspectors who used these cars leased by the federal General Service administration. Theyre given credit cards but you must punch in a personal code. She was also using it to fill up her tahoe more than 11,000 worth over three years. According to the court papers she used a governmentissued credit card to buy gasoline illegally at stations all up and down pennsylvania avenue. In fact the owner of one station said she was outside pumping gas when he got a call from a federal agent saying go outside and take a picture of her car and he did. One of the dead giveaways is getting more gas in the vehicle that the car issued to you is capable of carrying. Thats a pretty easy one. Take a hike a man who later told us he was her father tried to shoo reporters away. Kimberly resigned from the federal department in january. Another fire inspector who faces similar charges was fired by d. C. Fire e. M. S. Last month. She says she stole because a second job had cut her hours and her daughter needed money in college. Also, she said shes ashamed. She faces up to three years in prison. Sentencing is in may. Reporting from northwest washington, sam ford, abc 7 news. Still ahead here at 4 00 one Company Breaking ground with its Maternity Leave policy. Why some are calling it an unusual move. As many as 40 people on a. T. V. S attacks a d. C. Police officer. Im stephen tschida. Ill have i know grandmas house isnt the most exciting, but its only for a few hours. Look what ive got. When you get verizon fios, you get beautiful hd picture quality, super fast internet, and americas most reliable network. So you wont miss a second of that movie, that game they love, or those moments with family. Can we sleep over . 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No word on that persons condition. Well keep you posted. D. C. Police confirm a group of young people on all terrain vehicles attacked an officer last night. This happened when the officer tried to pull one of the a. T. V. Riders over in northwest washington. Stephen tschida live with why officers are concerned this could become a bigger problem. Stephen . Alison it happened here at clifton and 11th street around 6 00 last night. Officer reports when he tried to pull a woman with an a. T. V. Over, he got out of his cruiser that as many as 40 other people on a. T. V. S surrounded him and began kicking the cruiser. When several of them started driving directly to the officer, he got in his vehicle and took off. We have some you tube video to show you throngs of young people on a. T. V. S terrorizing police in other communities. Some d. C. Police say theyre bracing for a spike in a. T. V. Related incidents. The people who live here and have witnessed the groups of a. T. V. S tearing through the community worry about what will happen to them. They come through here just riding like they own the street. I dont know why but something needs to be done. They going to actually kill somebody. We received some emails from people who say they witnessed these bands are or this band last night of a. T. V. S, as many as 40 or 50 of them heading west. Heading along k street. Possibly heading towards georgetown as far as the word from police the investigation continues. No arrests so far. Reporting live stephen tschida, abc 7 news. Thank you, stephen. Now, turn to the weather. Great outside finally. Such a relief to be outside without all these layers. We have to enjoy this today. Rain is coming tomorrow. Chief meteorologist doug hill has a check of the forecast. You know weigh figured out with the warm temperatures i was thinking it wont be long for opening day. Less than a month for the nationals. Well stay mild for a while. We have some storm systems but theyre not going to be snowstorms. Theyll be rain systems. Lets show you the good news numbers now. 62 at andrews and 62 at Reagan National. 63 in fredricksburg. Across the board way above freezing and many areas way above average. Overnight lows tonight and tomorrow morning, well above freezing everywhere. Even the mountains by cumberland cumberland, 38 degrees. 40 in the metro Washington Area and through the day tomorrow, the first of these storm systems will make a run on the Washington Area. It will be cloudy and then well see the rain developing probably around midday. Periods of rain through tomorrow night. Period of rain through the day on wednesday as well. The temperatures again above freezing. Steve explains a little while ago that combination of the warm temperatures and the prolonged rain and the melting snow can cause some issues. Well talk more about what to expect. Check out the seven day forecast as well coming up in about 12 minutes. Alison . Well see you then doug. Thank you. The Childrens Law Center and d. C. Lawyers for youth say d. C. s truancy policy is failing students. In a report released today, the group found 56 of High School Students were considered chronically truant with 10 or more unexcused absences during the last school year. The report claims schools lack the resources for Early Intervention which is required by law. Starting today, Marc Train Service between d. C. And baltimore is getting ramped up. Maryland officials held a ceremony this morning to celebrate the expansion. Marc is adding another camden line station leaving washington for baltimore and there are two new afternoon trains. The officials added more trains to increase ridership and better serve university of maryland students. A Global TelecommunicationsCompany Appears to be breaking ground with the new Maternity Leave policy. Rebecca cooper live in our newsroom with a reaction and why many are calling this an unusual business move. Rebecca . It is alison. I wish i could tell you it applies to pregnant working moms with bad calls. It doesnt. You keep plugging ahead. Heres good news for a lot of women who are hoping to rethink maternity policy across the board. Vodafone is a European Company and they say now in all of their subsidiaries worldwide, theyre going to have a new policy where all working mothers taking Maternity Leave will get 16 weeks of paid leave. Heres the really unusual part, alison and leon even when they come back, for the next six months, they will come back at full pay but a 30hour work week. Vodafone says its a smart move to retain some of their best working moms. They did point out that for many of their european offices government subsidies there already provide far more than that. They say where its most needed right here in the u. S. And in africa. So we went out to the streets to talk to people and get their reaction and we heard several varying reactions. Heres some of what heres some of what we heard on the streets of washington today. I think its an excellent program. Could be a really cool idea. Id like to know who pays for it. Im a federal Government Contractor and i have to have people in place eight hours a day, 40 days a week. Who pays for it as well . Under vodafones policy, they pay for it. Here in the u. S. , it is required to get all people needing family medical leave up to 12 weeks of leave. Thats unpaid. Under current u. S. Law, no employer is required to even give one day of Maternity Leave unless you want to use your sick leave and your vacation leave. So its something that many people say is much needed here. As that last person pointed out, hes a federal contractor he and couldnt allow it if he wanted to unless the u. S. Congress seriously rethought how they offered Maternity Leave under federal contracting laws. Alison and leon i for one think its an idea worth exploring and we want to hear more from our audience. Well let them hear some of that as well. For now im going to tell you i vote great idea. Back to you. All right. You mentioned our viewers weighing in on this. We want to share some of the responses we received on our abc 7 Facebook Page about this Maternity Leave policy. Melanie wrote i think they should have some leave for the fathers as well if they want it. Chris simply wrote bravo. And Suzanne Dunaway says finally getting to where most companies are in europe. Lets see the other responses. Testimony resumes this week in the Boston Marathon bombing trial. A woman who lost both of they are legs in that attack testified from her wheelchair. Jessica said he and her husband were near the finishing line when the bomb went off in 2013. She talked how a bystander pushed her to the ground to put out flames on her body and talked about losing both of her legs. Dzhokhar tsarnaev is accused of detonating the bombs with his older brother. Lawyers of Aaron Hernandez are challenging d. N. A. Evidence in his murder trial. Theyre questioning how that material was collected and how it was matched to hernandezs d. N. A. State Police Crime Lab scientist acknowledged the shell casing had hernandezs d. N. A. On it and could have been contaminated by chewed bubble gum that was stuck to it. They saw hernandez leaving home hours before he was killed. The f. B. I. Has increased the award to find a former agent. Robert levinton disappeared eight years ago during a trip to kish island in iran. The reward for his return is at 5 million. An Associated Press investigation found that he vanished while working for the c. I. A. On an unapproved intelligence gathering mission. Doctors in south korea say they plan to release mark lippert from the hospital tomorrow. He was attacked by a man with a knife last week during a breakfast meeting in seoul. He had surgery on his face and on his arm. Today, he received a visit from south koreas president who was attacked by a man with a box cutter during an election rally in 2006. Back here in this country, the weeklong march commemorating the 50th anniversary of the bloody sunday demonstration is under way. It is retracing the steps protesters took in 1965 starting in selma, alabama. That marked a huge step in American Civil Rights and sparked the Voting Rights act that gave africanamericans the right to vote. Many people say there is still work left to be done. The problem is a lot of young people are so disconnected from the Civil Rights Movement so they dont understand the value of their vote. The weeklong memorial march will wrap with a rally at alabamas Capitol Building in montgomery on friday. Still to come at 4 00 new fallout at the university of oklahoma over a disturbing video. What the school is doing now to publish the fraternity at the center of the controversy. Learn how president obama is hoping to use techn protests are under way for a third day in madison, wisconsin after a Deadly Police shooting of an unarmed black teenager. Police responded to reports of a fight at a gas station friday night. While police say that officer matt kenny tracked the suspect, 19yearold Tony Robinson to an apartment. Officer kenny says he forced his way in and opened fire after robinson assaulted him. See the things happening first in new york youre like what if we lived in that place . Well, now we do. We do live in a place like that. Its unclear if the officer knew that robinson was unarmed. Officer kenny is on administrative leave pending an investigation. The university of oklahoma is taking action after a video surfaced showing some members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity reciting a racist chant. Karen traverse explains what will happen to the fraternity and its members. Pack your bags. Thats the message from the university of oklahoma to the members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity after this shocking video went viral. The video appears to show members of the fraternity chanting a racial slur and indicating that africanamericans would never be admitted to the fraternity. The video was reportedly shot this saturday and posted on you tube by an Organization Called unheard an alliance of africanamerican students. Its unclear how it was obtained. Oklahomas president said today the students behavior on that bus was disgraceful and all ties between university and s. A. E. Have been severed. Think long and hard. Students and staff gathered this morning for a peaceful protest. Happen on campus. The University President said there will be an investigation to determine whether additional actions will be taken against the Fraternity Members but it will take time. Though he was blunt about what he wants to see happen to those involved. The National Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon said it was disgusted by the behavior of the oklahoma frat members. They issued an apology on behalf of the entire organization. Reporting from northwest, karen traverse, abc 7 news. Up next on abc 7 news at 4 00. An amazing survival story. Well tell you what an 18monthold baby endured for an 18monthold baby is recovering after surviving nearly 14 hours hanging upside down in her mothers crashed vehicle. This is an incredible story. 25yearold lynn grossbeck was driving home from visiting family in utah friday night and her vehicle was found the next day. Upside down in a river underneath a bridge. She was killed. But amazingly, her daughter lily survived the entire night in frigid temperatures. Inches away from rushing water. When i got up on the car, the baby was submerged underwater. And so i reached in pulled her up out of the water and then trying to unbuckle the car seat. Wow Authorities Say the temperatures dipped into the low to mid 30s while that little girl was trapped in the car. Doctors say she is in critical but stable condition. Amazing. Absolutely amazing. I cant believe that. They are launching a new program called tech hire. Today, the president explained his plan to protect and increase middle class paying jobs. What its going to do is help local leaders connect the job openings to the Training Programs to the jobs. If youre not already involved in this, you have to get involved because your Community Needs this just like everybody else does. The program will make 100 million in federal money available to train workers to protect jobs. A seal is back in the Atlantic Ocean today after getting stuck on top of a snow bank in maine. Members of the Marine Mammals of Maine Organization helped the young seal out of the snow bank. They get stuck because they just follow the snow and ice. Of all the things in maine or in the states, a seal in the middle of the road. Not so much. Not really. All right, weve got these mild temperatures finally here but the rain is moving in. Rain is going to move in. Were a little bit concerned that there could be some ponding of water in low lying areas poor drainage areas, not flash flooding. Anything like that. More low level and gravity for anything thats melting and accumulation of rainfall in the next few days. Thats the issue. Ton of melting the next few days all the rain will be gone or all the snow will be gone because of the rain and warm temperatures. Lets get you started and show what we have for you right now. This is a view in annapolis, maryland. You can see temperatures in annapolis, in the upper 50s. If youre anywhere close to the coastline of the chesapeake bay, its only in the 40s reflecting more of the water temperature. Check these numbers for you right now 63 degrees, that was the high and morning low at 39. All these values above average for a change. Getting rid of the bitterly cold air masses. I dont see any bitterly cold air masses although i think next week according to some modeling it will turn noticeably colder again but not quite to the levels with high temperatures in the teens and 20s. None of that crazy stuff. 62 at Reagan National andrews. 48 in quantico. Theres a good example of the wind blowing on the tidal basin. Its cooler there as well. Heres a look at whats happening with the satellite and radar together. Theres a break to the southwest. But the main body of cloudiness moving through the ohio valley ahead of the storm system that will be more fully developing across sections of arkansas western tennessee tomorrow. As it makes a bead on our area guaranteed to bring us rain. A question of how much. Maybe enough maybe enough to give us close to an inch of rain by the time it tapers off later wednesday. Futurecast giving us time and location of the area of showers. This is centered on noon tomorrow when the rain will be overspreading the area from the south and west. More rain at times during the day into the day on tuesday and probably through tuesday evening and wednesday as well. Another system will kind of reinforce this with the warm front moving through. A lot of rain. Thats the concern. As part of the potential, by early wednesday morning watch the time stamp. Well probably have close to an inch in this area. 7 in frederick. 6 in washington. As we get through the rest of the day, it looks like there will be additional rainfall. Thats what well be watching for you. As far as the temperatures, 50 for a high tomorrow. 59 with the rain on wednesday. Brief break on thursday. Partly cloudy and 52. Bit colder with the storm system and again i dont think this will be snow. It will be rain the way things are shaping up for friday. Ending Early Saturday Morning and a bit of clearing on the day sunday. These numbers are all headed in the right direction. Yes. Never been so happy to see rain. Good way to look at it. All right. Thanks so much. All right. Still to come here on abc 7 news at 5 00 were monitoring two developing stories for you. An amtrak train derails on its way to d. C. Well have the latest on the injuries and reaction from the engine station. Plus documents just unsealed in the Jesse Matthew case. Northern Virginia Bureau chief Jeff Goldberg is at the Fairfax County courthouse looking through those documents and check in with us and let us know what they reveal kolg up tonight. Lets get a check of the traffic situation with bob emler and the wtop traffic center. Hi bob. Hi alison. Southbound traffic is heaviest getting over the anning kwan and woodbridge. Head south from dumfries and quantico. Thats when it gets slow off and on to stafford. Traffic generally good on 270 headed north and youll bog down a bit here and there as well. Starting here, it will be slow to clarksburg. Theres been a crash north of route 80. Still working on that. Slower than normal getting into frederick. Take a look at some cameras and see what it looks like right now on 270 headed northbound here were slowing down trying to get up through Montgomery Village and germantown and heaviest farther north at clarksburg. 66 and 395, volume delays this afternoon. Im bob emler with 103. 5 wtop radio. Back now to our question of the day. We posted it our abc 7 Facebook Page asking would you wear an apple watch . And would you pay hundreds of dollars for one . Well velma cake lady wrote no. Makes no sense. The phone is enough. Sounds good to me. I know it does. Another says i would wear it but not pay 350 for it. And stephanie wrote, yes yes, yes, most definitely yes. Thanks to all who responded on our abc 7 Facebook Page. Coming up next here at 7 on your side with a little discount direction when it comes to choosing Discount Airlines. 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Denied bond what police found with a serial shooter. Drivers plagued by potholes. If you want to file a damage claim against the government, you need to know the rules. And it was a loud boom concerns mount as a. T. V. S and dirt bikes run wild on city streets. Tonight, investigators are trying to figure out why a truck driver stopped on the tracks in front of an oncoming train. That train was headed to d. C. From charlotte. When it hit the truck and derailed in roanoke rapids. Diane cho live in Union Station where it was supposed to arrive 20 minutes ago. Diane has the latest on this developing story. Good evening diane. Good evening to both of you leon and alison. We talked to a couple of people here in Union Station. They are now being affected by this same crash and we want to show you more video from the scene and it happened around noon today. About 30 miles north of rocky mountain, north carolina. A woman who witnessed the crash said it was lingering on the tracks. Turn on the other side and they saw the driver jump out of the truck before the crash took place. The federal Railway Authority says two of the trains seven cars and a locomotive derailed because of it. The train was heading from new york to charlotte. We caught up with a couple of people on their way to florida today and they were told their train was canceled because of the train crash. So now passengers are trying to figure out what to do next. We talked to one woman who says shes now planning on taking the bus instead. Try not to get so excited because i mean lets face it