Thousands of students were forced to spend the night at school. That braced for conditions they usually do not see. People are not used to this. There is very little you can do. Home, this person had no choice but to be out in the elements. She says the trick is dressing right. I will be glad when a dance. When it ends. Spring is sixs, weeks away. Thank you. We are counting those six weeks. In florida, the Winter Weather left many drivers spinning their wheels. But this man, some are calling him the samaritan in shorts. He says he knows people do not have experience driving on ice and he said he wanted to make sure they got down the hill safely. As they apparently did. Washington, we are headed for another night of temperatures that could dip into the single digits. Doug hill has a first look at the forecast. Now. Right clear skies outside of the belfort furniture weather center. But show you the time lapse from fairfax today. Impressive day. The clouds behind the system and sunshine all day. If you look closely, a little bit of melting on the fairways and a lot on the paved areas. They melted off even though temperatures remain below freezing. Leonardtown, saint marys county, that had the most snow the farther north from washington. Officially 9 10 of an inch. Tonight it will be clear and cold. Very cold start but we will head into the 30s tomorrow. I will share the seven day in just a couple of minutes. Sent naturaler has gas demand soaring. Record. D a single day that is the same day dominion power reported a winter record for electricity use. It is now ranked in the top 20 54 demand for alltime. The man accused of killing two people before taking his own life at the Columbia Mall apologized for those actions in advance before tearing out the attack before carrying out the attack. Sufferingew he was from Mental Health problems. He did not seek help. Wanted to die although he did not specify anyone by name. The final entry includes an apology to his family. Into the deathon of a man outside of a fire include 15 grown to people. The firefighters on duty in northeast refused to cross the street to help 77yearold cecil mills, who was having a heart attack. An ambulance responded to the wrong quadrant of the city. Graya gray vincent apologized to the family. I do not know what to say. I did the best i could speaking with them. The first thing i did was apologize for what appeared to be dereliction, in this case. Forecil mills had worked the district government 47 years before his death on saturday. Hours after delivering the state of the union, president obama is on the road to pitch his ideas about reducing the income gap. His first stop was in prince georges county. Scott thuman is outside of the capital tonight. Scott. Mentioned, itu has become a tradition for the president the day after the state of the union to hit the and expand on some key points from his speech. Today it was all about boosting hourly pay and new ways to save. Those plans are not without critics. Well outside this costco, cries for higher minimum wage, inside promises to push for a three dollar hike. I am choosing this to be a year of action. Because too Many Americans are working harder than ever just to less get ahead. It helps when there is more money in the pockets of workers. They are spending more money. More goods and services. New burden onue a employers. If they are forced to pay more, they will hire fewer. It would actually hurt job creation, they say. Next up is near pittsburgh where he signed a directive for the treasury to ,reate something called myra with no minimum investment. A way of helping low income individuals start saving. For those of you that do not have a 401 k on the job, do not have a pension, you can get started now. In an emergency, you can withdraw contributions without paying a penalty. Gettingf this action is a negative reaction from those who say he is overstepping his boundaries. The problem is he has to we have the constitution. Just to clarify, the minimum wage plan the president wants to the forward on his own is one he announced yesterday. That is for future federal employee contracts. Anything else, and nationwide hike, he needs congressional approval. Already inproposal the works on the hill. Scott thuman, abc 7 news. Person brought in to clean up the scandal is stepping because, she says, of frustration with congress. Dorothy has resigned as head of the Public Buildings Service of the gsa. She oversaw Donald Trumps verges of the Old Post Office and is leading the search for a new fbi quarters. She told the washington posts policies make it almost impossible to improve the nations infrastructure on a costeffective manner. The winterp, olympics. The latest measures to keep the games safe. What passengers saying after a cruise ship were hundreds fell ill finally returns to port. Three years ago today, a young man was gunned down in vigil will mark the third anniversary of a man. The case remains unsolved. Bell explains, the young mans mother is not giving up hope. The 2001 championship. That is one of her favorite memories of her son brandon. She says he grew up to become a fine young man. His life was his daughter, his mom, and grandmother. Three years ago today, he was killed in gunfire as he left this nightclub. Knifeis like a continuous turning. Turning and turning. It was after 3 00 a. M. He left the club and was in his car when somebody started shooting. Were 13 bullet holes in his car. Detectives believe it was a case of mistaken identity. Despite a 25,000 reward for information, no arrest has been made. They need a little bit more to really positively identify the suspect or suspects. Will hold why dawn these pictures and signs at a vigil tonight as she has done every year. Because she wants the killer cant. Caught. He had no right to take my baby from me. And so tonight, mrs. Thomas will be here in the cold and the dark, hoping that somebody answers her plea for justice. Red bell, abc 7 news. Psychiatrics a facilities would have more time helping people on the recommendations from a task force. It proposes doubling the amount of time the hospital can search for a bed from six hours to 12. Held for 72 also be hours instead of 48. The task force was organized after a 24yearold stabbed his father before taking his own life in november. He had been admitted for Mental Health care the day before but was sent home when no room could be found. , a new on abc 7 news of the conditions on board a ship or hundreds fell ill. And another cold night but relief is on the way. Getting ready to announce the marylandmiami game. Ark hopes the terrapins come out of their shell tonight. Security threats today confirmed an increased and reports of possible terrorist attacks, particularly just outside of sochi. The United States is working with Russian Security to ensure thethe 10 spectators athletes and spectators are safe. Russia has employed more than 50,000 police and soldiers. The chief organizer for the games calls so to the most secure venue on the planet. The most a secure venue on the planet. Royal caribbean pulled into port in new jersey today. The 10 day cruise was cut short after more than 600 passengers got sick with a stomach bug. Caribbean has apologized and says it will give passengers a 50 refund and half off a future cruise. Some passengers are not happy with that deal. We did not get to go to half of our reports. Half of our ports. The cdc says it could be the largest outbreak since 2006. The ship will hit a scrubbing before heading back to sea on friday. We could use a warm up around here. Anything you ask. 30s tomorrow. Tropical. Almost. Lets take a look at a time lapse. This morning, 9 10 of an inch in the city and look when it stops, give it a couple of hours and away it went. The beautiful sun sign. It is going to get really cold. Just for one more night before we start to see the nice change in the weather pattern. Here is one more look at the snowfall totals. Southern merriment, especially down through hampton roads, over 12 inches of snow. And 6. 5 in southern calvert county. And the farther north, the lighter the snow. He much as expected. Officially 9 10 of an inch at reagan national. 26 the high and low at reagan national. 44 and 29 are the averages. You can dream about this all day, it is not going to make it happen. The record high was 76 degrees. I will be happy with 50. 50 is good. And we have a chance of making it this weekend. 19 in frederick. 21 in manassas. Cold but not nearly as cold as they have been. That is an improvement. The big prove mint is out west the big improvement is out west. As the highpressure gives us the blue skies today, that is going to allow the win to come in and bring the warmer arian in. This map shows how much warmer it is and was this time yesterday. Minneapolis, 30 degrees warmer than it was yesterday at this time. Everything is in our favor now with the system moving off to the east. The High Pressure moves out and then the wind will pick up and we will see the warming trend. Tomorrow, we will start off between two and 12 degrees. It is going to be cold but we will make a nice recovery. Probably about 34, 35 with a lot of sunshine and the wind with a little bit warmer as we go through the day on friday. And sunday. Aturday saturday is going to be partly cloudy. Sunday will be cloudy. We have a chance for rain in the afternoon. A little bit colder on monday. Maybe a few flakes, kind of a cloudy day on thursday into wednesday as well. From everything were saying, we do not see signs of a major storm on the horizon the next seven or eight days. We do not see any intrusions of arctic air either. And now the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota dealers. How about a Little College basketball tonight. I think it is time. Lets go to college park and tim brant. Tim. Eah, im here to announce the merrimentmiami game. It should be fun. The is jim and mark, Comcast Center should be rocking tonight. The terrapins have had some rough times. A tough stretch. They have lost four out of five games. Tonight patients will be the key. The defending champions are in town and they play a very effective zone. Panic. Ant it is a 40 minute game. The shot clock. Were going to have plenty of possessions. They are going to have plenty of possessions. You cant get caught up in it. You have to do the best you can. That is the way we have approached it. We have talked about being patient. Hopefully our guys are able to do it. You up 95 now, quieter days away from super bowl xlviii. Britt mchenry has been there all week and she has the latest. Even here in the city that never sleeps, people cant stop talking about Richard Sherman that his controversial remarks after the nfc championship game. All week his teammates have told us he is the best and sherman certainly think so. But who can blame them after watching that incredible play. He helped force the interception the ended the 49ers run to super bowl. But the broncos were watching and they may have figured out a way to stop him. Know who isto guarding your receiver and maybe what route the receiver is running. Were going to have to figure something out. I think is going to be a big part of the offense to get this win. Apologized for the comments he made after the nfc championship, saying it was in the heat of the moment. Bigger test ahead against the broncos, this sunday and super bowl xlviii. Sports. Endry, abc 7 new thank you very much. The wizards got back to 500 last night. They beat golden state. The final was 8885. John wall was good. Trevor was solid down the stretch. Bradley was a difference maker. Down therrific stretch. He scored 18 of the 20. Not a very pretty game for either team. The wizards go on to win. The final was 8885. Lets go to hockey. The caps have won two in a row. Alex ovechkin, two goals and two assists. Come inover to mike overtime, the gamewinner. The caps would go on to win 54 in buffalo and washington has won two in a row. The former head coach of the university of maryland may be back in the game. He will be the offensive coordinator at rutgers. He is working at a deal. They are said to be close with the contract. But it has not been signed. Back in football. There is a look at sports. Back to you. Thanks very much. Stay warm. A little warmth on the horizon. Here is the best we can do. 34 tomorrow. That is an improvement. 40s over the weekend. Maybe some rain by sunday. Maybe a little bit of mix by monday night. Taking a look at some new computer models and seals we can change the numbers when i read join you at 11 00. We will be here or we will be square. Abc world news is next. Have a good night. Welcome to world news. Tonight, chaos in the cold of the south covered by snow and ice. Our reporter in the deep freeze with drivers stranded on the highways. People forced to sleep in stores. Thousands of students today still trapped at school by the storm. Caught on camera, the congressman who lashed out after the president s speech. Ill throw you off what hes saying today about what really happened. An abc news exclusive, the whistleblower fearing for his life with allegations of massive corruption at the Winter Olympics by top russian officials linked to president putin. And freefall. An unconscious sky diver wearing a camera plugs to heart. Ne