To take thesefer two days away instead of the summer days because it is always nice outside in the summer. In st. Marys county and here in fairfax, they are going to take it away take a day away in april and add on a day at the end of the school year. Other counties are making their make up plans as well. According live in fairfax county, suzanne kennedy, abc 7 news. Several homeowners in germantown are still feeling the effects of last weeks storms. The house is lost windows and sightings. It was in the snow to cause all the damage. Apparently it was this massive snowblower. Stephen tschida joins us from germantown to explain what happened. Are right on the other side of i 270. You can hear it on the other side of that wall. Friday morning, an avalanche of snow and slush and stones came flying over the wall. You can see the evidence here. All of his gunk, this was what was on the highway. Check out this side of the house. It rained down hard. A pounding storm of snow and slush and stones. It was all over the siding. Residents in this neighborhood said around friday morning it started. Suddenly it felt like some houses were under attack. A barrage of rocks from the highway hurtling towards them fast and with force. It was hitting a roof, hitting our yard, covering our yard. A massive snowblower used to clear the highway came through with such power that apparently it said would cover the roads after thursdays storm over the 25 foot protective wall and straight at these yards and houses. Windows. Lost three stones also pelted this womans kitchen window but it withstood the onslaught. They were right here. If a rock crash through and here they wouldve gotten injured. Several houses took the brunt of the snowblower. His house still bears the marks of what looks like black snowballs. Lots of road salt. Anything that was on the highway is now in our backyard. Tothe residents complained the state highway administration. They promised the state would look into it. They will be coming out and investigating what happened. Hopefully they will not do it again. Look at this. This is what was on the highway. It is a real mess. Even on this bird feeder over here. We did talk to a representative of the highway administration. Driver of thethe big snowblower and tried to instruct them on how best to avoid another incident like this. Thank you. What a mess. Stay connected with abc 7 and track the latest weather. You can use the app on your phone or go to our website wjla. Com. Reservedered Police Officer was remembered as a kind and gentle man. Kevin quick was honored today. Of Police Officers attended. So did the turn the Virginia Attorney general. Police have not said how he died. Six people have been arrested but no one has been charged with his murder. Has been seven years since a 16yearold boy was gunned down outside of a club. Now his mother is speaking out about his sons on salt murdered. Unsolved murder. We have interviewed tonight. He was alive today, he wouldve graduated college a couple of years ago. He would be in the beginning of his teaching career. Instead he is gone appeared his killer is still out there and his mother mustered up the courage once again today to speak out. This was not easy for her. I am so thankful. I told him all the time that he was the best son a mother could ever have. It is been seven years since her son was murdered as he drove his friends home from a Birthday Party and was from a club. I am not the same person i used to be before my children before my son was murdered. The pain is as real now as it was then. He called around 8 00 that night. I told him that i loved him and i would talk to him lar. He was in his mothers car at a stoplight. Past the card car with tinted windows pulled up. Someone inside opened fire in the car took off. She sat me down and said, i dont want to believe here. I am glad i saw him. He had been hit by two bullets, both struck him in the head. Seven years later, no arrests. As difficult as it was to relive that night, she wants a new information from witnesses who were just teenagers at the time. Now that they are grown, i am hoping people have a change of heart. That they decide they want to speak up and i think i had the bright have the right to know what happened. Who happened that night and is responsible. Time will tell everything. This grieving mother and the detectives hope so. If you have any information call the crime solvers line. 25,000 award leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever killed him. Thank you. Naval Academy Midshipmen is dead following a car accident on the academy grounds. A spokesman said someone spotted the card sunday afternoon in a creek. I Fire Department dive teams searched the creek and found the body underwater. Police recovered the car and are examining trying to learn what happened. Church areof a wondering if thered churchs days are numbered. The Church Building that they thought would get, is actually in foreclosure. Sam ford is outside the church. He has the story. The pastor of this church, the reverend declined for request of an interview. We heard that his actions may be threatening the very existence of this church. They would like to know where the money went. Several times this past week, people were rising who are arriving at this church are met with People Holding protest signs. We are concerned about the auctioning. She is talking about this about the sale of the building currently used as a church. Their church. Washe church itself supposed to be clear of debt. Apparently it was until six years ago when the pastor use the church as collateral to borrow 3. 2 million. I want to talk about the subject of god is still god. Member started digging and found he is president and corporation and the trustee sold the church to the corporation for 10. With the millions of no money, bci was working with the pastor and then there was financial trouble. The auction was called by a company in phoenix but before a february 11 date, the auction was canceled. Her. Ar members like we want to know what happened to the money. How the building was used for collateral. Why werent we told early on. So, the protests. We spoke on the phone with the pastor who said that the members should not be worried, they shouldve trusted the pastor to work things out. The pastor issued this statement saying there would be a business meeting here at the Church Next Sunday so that they could clarify the facts in this matter and dispel any myths that you mightve heard or read. Some members say they are concerned because any auction that could be canceled, can also be rescheduled at a later date. Reporting live from northeast washington, sam ford. Thank you. Seven is on your side with a consumer alert. What when the countrys largest flower businesses is apologizing tonight. Finding a accused of man on craigslist and then condemn and then killing him. Many people that described as this winter there is some weather headaches episode she olympics. P soup like conditions over there. A womans biathlon race went on as scheduled after the fog came in. The forecast includes rain and snow. Plex Indoor Sports did go one today in sochi in here is a look at the medal count. United states and russia are now tied for the most medals with 18 each and fumbled closely by the netherlands and norway. We should get a medal for the snow we get here. The olympics is one reason why more people are taking advantage of the snow when heading to local ski resorts. You had a lot of snow and the threeday Holiday Weekend and business is booming on the slopes. Brad bell tells us how well they are doing. With way better weather, and far more snow, the slopes here it is the thrill of victory. And the agony of defeat. An hour and a half from d. C. No complaints. Collects the headlines have been about the misery of winter. Ski slopes,other this has been a season to remember and a good way. Collects it is not icy. She says the last thing cold weather and frequent snowfalls have made her job easy. The Winter Olympics have not people watch and want to give it a try. A threey, there was mile line its a three mile line to park and they ran out of rental skis. It is the best winter in years for them. The third time since the resort opened which is unheard of. Because the residence bethesda residents were here yesterday and came back today. It is been three years since we have skied. Nothing great last forever and the Weather Forecast is not in their favor but they say they have enough snow on the ground to ski well into march. How many taste you think it took him to get that . We should get a face plant in there somewhere. A lot of people like the snow and a lot of people not so much. The kids are liking the snow days. Here we go again. Tomorrow morning, there might be some closures. Maybe a pain in the neck rushhour. Lets get you started. A beautiful day. Whole lotmelt all appeared temperatures stayed in the 30s and some places were barely above freezing. All that means is temperatures are going to drop quickly at sunset. After that, the clouds will roll in and we will be set for more snow. Right now in frederick. 31 and hagerstown appeared the lows this morning are in the teens to what very cold start. 33 at quantico. Through the overnight, those numbers will fall. Here is the latest advisories. It goes into effect at 10 p. M. Tonight. North and west, it begins at 10 p. M. And ends at 6 p. M. At 6 a. M. For thetake time precipitation to move from west to east. Snow at chicago and that is pushing off to the east. The moisture trails off on the southern end. It is producing its own as these upper disturbances do. The second part is moving pretty quickly so it will get in and get out. It will drop about one to three inches. We see now the same set up in the atmosphere. 6 p. M. Tonight, watch with this computer models does. It looks like the pennsylvania line will be where it gets the heaviest precipitation. If you are below 32 degrees, it will be freezing rain or drizzle. Very quickly it clears out. We will get sunshine. We will go to the mid to upper 40s tomorrow. It looks like temperatures in the 50s on wednesday and again on thursday. Here is the futurecast temperature wise and sky wise. It will be around in the Early Mornings and then pass out to the east. It should turn into a very pleasant afternoon. Into wednesday, another disturbance could give us some sprinkles on the morning. Another computer projection an internet half and gave his word an inch and a half in gaithersburg. I think the pennsylvania line is where the heaviest snow will be but everybody will pick up a little bit of snow here. The timing will have an impact on your Tuesday Morning commute. It becomes milder in the afternoon. We havent seen this kind of senate this kind of seven day in a while. Some showers on friday afternoon. I think most of the snow will melt in most areas by then. That looks really nice. Good change. As you know, there are so much snow on not burn in on mount vernon they will have to scale back the president s day celebration. People came in smaller numbers than years past. Terry mcauliffe took part in a wreathlaying ceremony. Washington ranked ninth in a survey of the nations favorite first ladies. Ranks the first ladies in categories like public image. Eleanor roosevelt took the top took the top spot. She was followed by abigail adams, jacqueline kennedy, dolly madison, and michelle obama. Self tying sneakers . See what is making the shoes reality. We have the award. It could be a precursor for the oscar of best picture. This 40 twoyearold mother is beating the odds after first getting pregnant with triplets. What everyone shocked. She is either one of the worst serial killers the country is ever seen were teenager looking for attention after being charged with a craig a new claims tonight from 19yearold woman arrested in connection with the pennsylvania thrill kill. Is claimingarbour to have killed more than 20 people around the country. Investigators are trying to figure out if she is telling the truth or telling a tall tale. Kris van cleave has the details. Police believed barbara and her husband wanted to kill someone together. Tobour is saying she wants tell it all. The confession of a serial killer or a teenagers plea for attention . Barber couldaranda face the Death Penalty if convicted for what police call a thrill kill. Allegedly killing a man she met on craigslist. The man was not her first murder. I said what is the actual number and she said under 100. Husband allegedly lured a man with a crystal exposed a craigslist post for sacks and then stabbed him. She now claims this was only the recent one. She claims she targeted at people saying, when i hit 22, i stopped counting. As you sit here, do you have any remorse whatsoever . She said none. Local police and the fbi are investigating her claims. If true, she would join the likes of 10 bundy ted bundy. Her towould allow provide details, locations, dates, and names and see if she can corroborate what she is telling you. You can tell take all the numbers she threw down out. The most surprising thing would be the fact she said if she got out she would do it again. The attorney has a request for the psychiatric evaluation. Thank you. On a much lighter note, we will take you behind the scenes of the national zoo is very popular panda cam. Meet the people in charge of keeping all eyes on the baby. You are watching abc 7 news at 5 00. We have a little more snow coming in. We had to get through that in the morning with maybe the bad commute. Onlets get another check the weather situation from doug hill. The break and warm up is coming but we first have to get through the night and the Early Morning. There is snow and rain. The snow and a little bit of ice in between. It is rapidly moving eastward. The Weather Service has posted a Winter Weather advisory beginning at 10 p. M. In all the areas shaded in purple. Area, we expect a couple of inches of snow by morning. 33 in quantico. Most areas will be in the 20s overnight and early tomorrow morning. Precipitation beginning between 11 p. M. And midnight. It is arriving from the west. We could have some freezing rain or freezing drizzle. By the time it tapers off by 7 00 in the morning, we are talking one to three inches. A lot more to share and more pleasant news about the warmup coming up in a couple of minutes. More Winter Weather is heading to the east coast. World news is talking tracking the system. We go now to diane sawyer with the latest. We all remain frozen pretty much across the country but tonight i understand you are reporting on some hidden dangers we may not know about. Roof, have you ever heard of an ice dance . Do you know about the danger it could be doing to your roof right now . The wear and tear could damage her home long after the snow was ended. Well show you tonight how to make sure you take care of it. This copilot who basically went rogue in the air. I know youre reporting the story as well. We will show everybody moral ball we have learned of how we try to hijack the plane and how you protect passengers when the danger is locked inside the cockpit. That will be be coming up tonight. We will see you shortly. You can watch all those stories and more tonight on world news. Lot of big problems left behind by the snow. The most is potholes. Kendis gibson when not to hit the most problematic roads in the area and to find out when the potholes will be filled. Potholes are formed when moisture seeps into the pavement. It freezes and expands and thaws. That process weakens the pavement and it happens a lot this season. In particular, in the last week. Roads in ourmany area now legendary for their potholes. This stretch of new york avenue is one of them. They are all up and down new york avenue. The snow from last weeks storms are starting to melt giving way for more longlasting impact plenty of potholes. All these roads have potholes. All of them. All these roads need some fixing. A lot of roads in southeast and northeast. Hard arent having a are having a hard time trying to keep up. They cling to a patched about 7000 potholes this year. Vdot says the number of complaints have tripled. The storm compounded the problem leaving drivers navigating the roads but the holes as well. It feels like we are going through an obstacle course. I said we should do it obstacle race because it is the same thing we are doing. With still a month of winter left, this may be a problem we may have to get used to. It is because of the snow. A the district usually has Spring Campaign where they try to patch all the potholes. They have had to move that campaign up this year. The same for virginia and maryland. Thing you thank you. A check on the traffic situation. Hi, bob. And much lighter volume that we are used to seeing during the rush hour. This is the beltway at good luck road. At the moment, traffic has really got by without much of a delay. It is moving at the posted speed at this point in traffic on 395 coming southbound does bog down near duke street. Brief slowdowns getting past there. We do have some volume on 66 in both directions near nutley street. No hov restrictions going westbound. Not a lot going on. We shouldnt get used to it because tomorrow we are back to a regular rushhour. Thank you. The jackpot on wednesdays powerball drawing as grown to 400 million. It is the fourth biggest and powerball history and the six largest lottery prize of all time. If you win the lump sum payout because of rule changes, some of the highest jackpots have happened in the past two years. Here are the odds of matching all six powerball numbers. One in 175 million. So you are saying there is a chance . We have a few more days. Coming up, why one major Flower Company is apologizing tonight. Hall, star of about last night, a proud bc native d. C. Native. Cuts takeup, budget their toll on the irs. Supreme at the box office but a local actress is making a name for herself. Joins arch Campbell Joan just joins us. Regina hall love the d. C. Held it atause they the theater in northwest and she used to sell tickets there. She broke up with me. My parents are coming to town. Regina hall and kevin hart sizzle in about last night, caught the a bickering couple trying to figure out the relationship. She grew up in northwest d. C. I worked here. No kidding . When was that . A long time ago. I love the chemistry between you and kevin. You are like an old married couple. We are like an old married couple in real life minus all the perks. This weekend, 12 years the slave won the top prize at the British Academy awards. The lego movie keeps breaking records. It just won the Weekend Box Office and hurdles to 129 million in two weeks. About last night took second and robocop got third place. Kevin costner goes for the action in three days to kill but i dont think he has a prayer against the lego movie which everybody loves. Our friend regina hall went to hhigh school in d. C. And loves our town. Proud of her. Looking good. Listen to this one because you may not think of politics and romance in the same breath but you may want to make an exception here. Cards was a big hit on valentines day. Netflix release all the episodes on friday. Stream to more than one episode of the new season because scott thuman have cameos in it. Thats right. They do make appearances. [laughter] we will see later, arch. Comingoming up, up, i surprised that this woman was pregnant but she was having triplets. Still waiting for your valentines day flowers . Lots of people are. One woman winning a very important cat now to the consumer alert. Answers and nike heads back to the future for its new product. Natasha barrett comes to tell us all about it. 0flowers is still apologizing to customers whose flowers and candy did not show up on time because of the weather. They sent this tweet out. They are committed to their 100 smile guaranteed. We appreciate your patience. T, angry customers complained that the phone lines were jammed and threatened to take their business elsewhere. Other customers has said the company promised them a refund and a discount voucher. This winter has messed up a lot of peoples plans. Trucking routes, airlines, schedule seven messed up and that is kept shelves from being stocked in business is unable to for fill orders. American women are now the top breadwinners. This is according to a new study but are they happy about their increasing role as the top earner . Only 29 of mothers say they want the role of primary breadwinner. 71 say they fell into the role by circumstance. Nike is planning to make self tying shoes similar to the ones future. Back to the the character were those self tying nikes shoes during the year 2015. It is almost 2015. Nike realized self tying shoes are slated to come out in 2015. Nike release a limited edition of those shoes but those shoes do not have that lace up technology. It is not clear if they will keep the name for the new seekers sneakers. Collects unbelievable. Speaking of unbelievable. Doctors have said the odds of this are almost impossible. A mississippi woman gave birth to identical quadruplets at the age of 42 without fertility treatments. Her pregnancy was one surprise after another. She and her husband were not trying to conceive and doctors told her she was having triplets. No one expected what happened next. Babies. Delivered three i was like, no. , she hadd of triplets quadruplets. For baby girls four baby girls. Doctors say the odds of identical quadruplets are one in 13 million. Only 60 cases have been documented in history. They are relatively healthy. They do have a 10yearold big sister. Collects she needs to go buy a Lottery Ticket right now. That is amazing. Lets see what happens when they get their own show. Maureen bunyan is here with a look ahead. Happy president s day. George zimmerman breaks his silence and we will tell you what he is saying about his life after the death of Trayvon Martin and his message for martins parents. This Winter Weather is affecting the bottomline of some businesses but it may surprise you to learn what businesses are not reaping the benefits. More than that tonight. Has his eyes on another system coming through here tonight. Now buty cloudy right just to the west, the clouds are rolling in. A live look at clark county high school. Still a lot of snow on the ground. This is one of those quick moving upperlevel systems that has the ability to produce a few inches of snow in some spots. Until then, Winter Weather advisory is in effect at 10 p. M. For the areas shaded in purple. South and southwest no advisories because of more rain. Temperatures continue to fall below freezing across the region overnight, into the 20s. 30 at the moment in annapolis. The futurecast shows the pushing till 4 a. M. The area and then it quickly gets out of here. Mix butee a brief that will be that. On wednesdayome in morning but that high coming in on wednesday will bring us warmer temperatures. We will run it through the evening and through the day tomorrow. You see the snow coming in, a little rain in areas south and east town. We will be in fine shape with a very impressive warming trend coming up afterwards with temperatures in the upper 40s tomorrow. Here is a look at what is coming up tonight. Pablo gets to see his daughter before sending some of the women home. Ands followed by castle then the news. Of those guys that believes duke gets all the calls. Maryland fans believe it. They say this proves it. The acc has a knowledge that the officials made a mistake. Had a twopoint lead and there was a tie up and the ball was given to duke. The possession arrow was posted be for maryland. Duke got the ball instead and scored the next bucket to tie the game and the blue devils 6765. Six to 765 we have gotten tougher. Regain confidence but there is so much we need to work on. When you start to play better, it is easier to narrow it down. You have so much to work on, it is overwhelming. Now it is like, you know, they can see it and break it down a little easier and hopefully improve on what our weaknesses are now become a better team. Lets go to florida with the temperatures were in the 70s today. In the 70s. Britt mchenry is with the nationals. It was 83 degree temperatures and palm trees insight. The stands are empty now and so was the field. The pitchers and catchers will resume their work out activities at the stadium. Coming up, we will tell you what new techniques Stephen Strasburg is employing. Let it take you to auburn for our shot of the day. Jason, it is just a fan. 95 feet but it is only a three inch opening. Yes, sir. He gets it and wins a brandnew car. He was a student at auburn. 95 feet on the hardwood with the golf putt. How about that . He should go to the lottery. Thank you. We all watch it. The National Zoos panda cam. We will take a the National Zoos panda cub turned six months old. Greta kreuz takes a look at the best moments caught on the camera. Seele behind the scenes to who runs these cameras and why they are so important to the people. Every move have has captivated the world. From birth to her first cries. To her first cuddles with mother as she rolled, wiggled, and crawled. There was a lot of moments that happened on a daily basis. We have witnessed every single milestone thanks to the panda cam. I keep it on about 16 hours a day. A team of volunteers runs the controls from 7 a. M. Until 10 p. M. They swap among 38 cameras, including new hd cams strategically placed in the pen and play area. The keeper belies on the cameras to monitor his development and to make sure the pandas are ok. Ande are watching the bears keeping anaya what they are doing making sure that dont need any food or whatever. They also track behavioral data like when she cries. I start climb to the top of the rocks for the first time. The panda cams were turned off to the public for two weeks causing outrage. They missed bao bao opening her eyes and missed cash and her vet opening her eyes and her vet checkup. She began climbing and playing with new toys. She plays with her feet all the time. It is cute. It is wonderful. Now she has train stations but you wont see those online. It is forbidden to show the people. You will see bao bao sleeping in this bucket a lot unless mom decides otherwise. She sleeps about 20 hours a day now but soon in the coming months she will become more active and playful. That is it for abc 7 news at 5 00. Abc 7 news at 6 00 starts right now on stormwatch. Live from the abc seven broadcast centers, this is abc seven news at 6 00. A potential nightmare in time for your ride to work tomorrow morning. Here we go yet again. Hill ast right to doug we begin on stormwatch once again. Clear but noto for long as clouds roll in bringing snow to the area. There is the snow and rain in green and is pushing very quickly. It will move him probably just before midnight and because of that Winter Weather he advisories have been posted. With clear skies are going to fall quickly here with the sun going down so we will be in the 20s overnight. Everything that falls will stick. By the time we get to the Early Morning hours, there could be some areas there is some mixes. It is along the line of one to three inches. Closer to three around the pennsylvania border. We will have more coming up in a few minutes. You can count on abc sevens keep you ahead of the letter weather. Team will have the latest and conditions on the road starting tomorrow morning at 4 30 a. M. Right here. The constant Winter Weather is having a big impact on some area businesses. One of those businesses are suffering, others are doing well. Rebecca cooper will show us all about it. There are some winners and losers for more losers. The storms are costing the u. S. Economy 15 billion. Look over my shoulder at this store. It is hard to draw window shoppers into the store when the snow was still higher than the window and doors. This is a family owned business that likes to offer reliability. They have been opened every day since the snow. Some customers reducing the storm as a refuge. Serviceser a lot of that you can operate your business from here