He might cut. His budget includes money for the new hospital in Prince Georges County and the eastwest purple line project from new carolton to chevy chase. The budget does cut 2 from all state agencies. It cuts state Worker Compensation and benefits and reduces aid to education. In all, hogan says hes closed a 700 million budget gap. He briefed legislative leaders at the Governors Mansion today, the House Speaker and Senate President say there will be pushback from the democratic controlled legislature. There are a lot of issues that we have concerns with. State employees, education and health care would seem to take the brunt of the hits. Well starting tomorrow when legislators start getting through these pages and looking all the numbers, you know the budget battles will begin. Now, they have until the 83rd day of the legislative session. Thats april 6th this year to a budget. The legislature cannot add any money. They can only move things around or do additional cuts. In annapolis, brad bell abc 7 news. Thank you, brad. Were following breaking news from annapolis. Investigators recovered two more bodies from that scene of a mansion fire in annapolis. This a day after two other bodies were found in that debris pile. They have not been identified. Mondays fire destroyed a 16,000 square foot home and its believed that six people including don pyle his wife sandy and their four grandchildren were inside at the time. The cause of that fire is still under investigation. Virginia Governor Terry mauliffe is out of a richmond hospital tonight. He spent three days at d. C. Medical center after breaking seven ribs during an accident on a horse. That happened while the governor was in tanzania during a family trip. Earlier today, mauliffe tweeted this. Thank you to everyone for all of your well wishes over the past few days. Im back at home and resuming my daily schedule. Lets turn now to abc 7 storm watch weather center. We are tracking more Winter Weather heading our way. Chief meteorologist doug hill here now to explain what to expect and when. Doug . All right, leon right now, its partly cloudy and very pleasant but the storm system to the south will have clouds cloudy by this time tomorrow with that rain very close to the region. For the moment partly cloudy and 40 outside of the belfort weather center. Upper 30s north and west already and by tomorrow morning, well look for low temperatures to start our friday many the mid 20s to lower 30s. Sunshine and increasing cloudiness through the day as that storm system tracks east and eventually northeast along the coast. High pressure moves out of the way. Clouds increase. Thats when we think it will be the story in many areas late friday night and through a good chunk of saturday clearing in the afternoon. Any accumulation, i think, will be well to the north and west of the metro washington area. Many areas will get rain only and then a little bit of sunshine sunday and we could have an Alberta Clipper here on monday morning to bring snow to the area. Busy afternoon. Well explain it all in a minute. Leon . You got it. Make sure you stay with abc 7 and wjla. Com and well track this Winter Weather for you moment by moment and look for instant updates on your facebook and twitter pages and download our stormwatch app and that way, you can receive alerts on your mobile device. The man charged in three murders in alexandria will undergo a psychological evaluation at a state hospital. A judge approved the evaluation today during a hearing for charles severance. Prosecutors are trying to determine if severance is mentally competent to stand trial in the deaths of nancy dunning, ron kirby and ruthann lidado. They argued for another psychological evaluation after severance refused to be interviewed for the first one. They are asking an Appeals Court to revse a judges decision denying him bail as he appeals his prison sentence. The trial was sentenced to begin a two year prison term for corruption on february 9th. They say mcdonnells appeal isnt Strong Enough to allow him to remain free on bail. His former governors wife will be sentenced on her corruption conviction next month. Metro is making changes to improve safety after last weeks deadly smoke incident at Lenfant Plaza metro. Metro officials put out a list of items they want to change and joce sterman now is live at metro headquarters with a look at whats being done to try to keep the riders safe. Youve seen this list . I have seen this list. 10 items on it and metro is already taking action from adding smoke detectors and signage to changing what happens if the train operator notices the smoke, they are stepping up and trying to make things safer even as the ntsb continues digging into this situation to find the causes of what looks like some Serious Problems here and ntsb investigators are on the case. They are continuing to dig into lots of things including 100 surveillance videos they say have been provided by metro. Theyre interviewing metro employees, working with firefighters as well and doing testing on something very important. Those fans that are designed to clear the trains and tunnels of smoke. Now, even though metro leaders told us specifically earlier this week the ventilation for tunnel fans worked property the ntsb just is not sure their testing showed what they called anomalies. The fans were working and they werent doing they werent doing the correct direction they were supposed to be. Even when they were turned on . Correct. And that was during testing. They dont know exactly what happened during that incident last week. Now, anossue that they are working to correct, one they have already fixed involves the radio communication. There was an encryption issue that has been fixed. Senator mark warner put out a paper that all jurisdictions with ties to metro should have the radios tested to make sure there are no problems with communication. Live in northwest washington joce sterman, abc 7 news. Thank you joce. More metro passengers stuck in that smoke incident are pursuing legal action now. Abc 7 news has learned that one you la law firm in the district is representing 50 passengers. Last friday a passenger filed the first lawsuit in that metro smoke incident. The marijuana debate is sparking up again in the commonwealth. Virginia state senator adam evans introduced a bill to eliminate jail time for possession of marijuana. That bill would also make it punishable by a maximum penalty of 100. The measure faces an uphill battle, the house of delegates killed the decriminalization bills in the past. Coming up here at 6 00 the story youllee only on 7. How a community is going to Great Lengths to save a wooded area. New information in the trial of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect. How his lawyers are making another push to move his trial. And mixed moves when it comes to the ebola virus in west africa. New challenges Health Officials there are a new government shakeup in yemen. That countrys president resigned under pressure from shiite rebels who seized the capital last fall and confined the president to his home for the past two days. This after the entire Yemeni Government submitted its resignation earlier today. The president s resignation raises fears that yemen could again split apart complicating u. S. Efforts to find alqaida members in that region. Indonesian divers recovered six more bodies from the airasia flight 8501. The plane plunged into the java sea last month. 115 are still missing as of tonight. They believe their bodies are in the main fuselage of that plane and that remains on the sea floor 100 feet below the surface. Recovery efforts have been hampered by Poor Visibility in the area. Secretary of state john kerry is calling on the International Community to join forces to fight isil. Kerry is in london on meetings to deal with the terrorist group. He says isil is a problem for more than just the middle east. Dash is a global problem and it demands a coordinated, comprehensive and enduring global response. That term that kerry was using is actually an acronym for the group based on the original arabic and a term that isil considers to be derogatory. New information tonight about Boston Marathon bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev. His lawyers are making a third push to move his trial outside of massachusetts. They cited a large number of perspective jurors who already believe that tsarnaev is guilty and the personal connections those jurors may have to the bombing. Court officials announced that Opening Statements will not be heard as expected on monday because jury selection is taking them longer than they anticipated. Still ahead here at 6 00 update on an American Health worker thats been hospitalized after being exposed to the ebola virus. Where things stand after a three week monitoring period. And doug is here tracking the Winter Weather heading our way. How it could affect your weekend plans. Im robert burton. Coming up in sports the terps will be Battle Tested again tonight. Tom brady weighs in pun he wants to take a good look at this video, officers need your help to find these two people that robbed this convenience store. This happened tuesday night. The stores surveillance cameras captured the robbers at this business on florida avenue northeast. If youve seen these people and you know them, give police a call. Now, we turn to a story you will see only here on 7. Neighbors in tacoma park are joining forces with the city to save a wooded area seized by the i. R. S. And put up for auction. As Caroline Tucker tells us residents raise tens of thousands of help the city buy that property on poplar avenue. Its a spot from tacoma park left untouched by Development Much the i. R. S. Seized these woods behind the former Mclaughlin School property after the owner didnt pay taxes. Signs to save the trees soon popped up. Those woods cant be be replaced. The neighbors thought they might have a shot of saving this land so they rallied together and raised more than 100,000. The money was added to a pot to help the city bid at auction. Right at noon the city and resident joe egil sparred for the property. The city claimed victory. Sold for 263,000 it shows a great willingness on the part of tacoma park residents to stand up for what they believe in and put the money where their mouth is. Amazing to watch people come together to make this happen. The other bidder left the Neighborhood Group for his own development plans. I didnt know until i got here. I was still his bids ultimately drove up the price. I dont day it personally. People were upset. Well move on to the next community challenge. The city is also responsible for the back taxes and fees which total more than 400,000. Many says its worth it. Really good day for neighbors and for the trees. In tacoma park Caroline Tucker, abc 7 news. Encouraging news in the fight against ebola. The World Health Organization says that cases are falling in guinea liberia and sierra leone. Organization says cases in new guinea and liberia are at the lowest levelce august. The death rate for hospitalized patients in african countries is right about 60 . And American Health care worker who was exposed to ebola in sierra leone has been released from a hospital in nebraska. Doctors say the Health Worker was monitored for three weeks and did not develop the disease, the hospital has not identified the patient at the patients request. Now, were not going to have this kind of weather here, are we . No. Whats coming tomorrow is primarily rain. Some mix of snow and sleet and if theres any accumulation of a couple inches it will be north and west of the metro area and a little higher elevations. Monday morning, a little different story. A little clipper could bring snow to everywhere in the area here. Wet because its going to get white. Thats the way it works. Lets look at the armynavy country club in fairfax. Look this morning, foggy with snow on the fairways. Clear the skies a bit and let the sunshine even when its cold. Most areas have lost the snow cover except for northwest of the city. Beautiful sunset tonight. And now with partly cloudy skies, temperatures are climbing into the 30s in many spots. And that drop will continue. Still 44 at Reagan National and drop into the 20s and 30s for overnight. Officially 49 at Reagan National. Six degrees above average. 36 the morning low. Eight degrees above average due to the extensive cloud cover and fog. Record high tantalizing 76 degrees. Not any time in your future. In fact the trends for next couple of weeks are temperatures will turn noticeably colder by next week and beyond. 24 and 32 by early tomorrow morning. Partly cloudy skies. Were going to be watching with great interest the stormwatch 7 weather team this storm system organizing in the mid south and the deep south along the gulf coast is expected to move east and up the coast. What is missing from making this a potentially big snowstorm is the fact theres not a lot of really cold air in place. We need that for the snow to develop. What were going to do is borderline temperatures here with a steady increase in clouds. This future cast model brings rain south and west of town. A little mix in the purplish area and a little snow north and west. As we go overnight, that pattern spreads up to the north and east with some moderate and maybe a few brief periods of heavy rain. Well get into the Daylight Hours of saturday and mostly its rain and a brief turnover to a mix before it ends and i think by the afternoon, the sun will try to break through. Well be in good shape into sunday before we have to deal with another system that clipper that i was talk to leon about here on monday morning and it may be colder then and we may have to deal with some snow for the beginning of the monday morning rush. So for tomorrow sunny start. Cloudy finish. 43 for a high. And then as we head through the day on saturday well deal with the snow and rain and the sleet and the mix. Especially saturday morning and midday. It should taper off and end with clearing in the afternoon. Highs to 43. Partly cloudy 44 sunday. And then monday morning, well before sunrise, the clipper could bring 40 chance of light snow or snow showers. Highs in the 30s. Then turning noticeably colder for the balance of next week. Leon and robert . All righty. Deflateriots is the word of the day. Love that name. A lot of people arent having it from tom brady today after he spoke at the podium. Surprisingly, hear from tom brady on the deflate gate situation. Bill belichick gave his thoughts and its that matchup for the terps tonight. Can they ball out . Thats next in sports. Pats coach Bill Belichick and tom brady met with the media to address the deflate gate issue. Bill belichick made himself clear. He said several times in his press conference he didnt have an explanation for anything. In fact, hes never spoken to anyone about ball inflation before a game in his entire career. His quarterback also met with the media. A lot of analysts have been saying he wasnt truthful at the podium today. Heres tom before earlier. I have no knowledge of anything. I have no knowledge of any wrongdoing, of any yeah, im very comfortable saying that. Im very comfortable saying that nobody did it as far as i know. I dont know everything. I also understand that i you know, was in the locker room preparing for a game. I dont know what happened over the course of the process with the footballs. All right. Switching gears, in college hoops, the big game for 13th ranked terps. Its a top 25 matchup with indiana. The hoosiers are ranked 23rd now after a big ohio state win. Right now, maryland is tied with wisconsin for first place in the big 10 at 51. Heres head coach mark turgen. They know this is a big game and a fun game and all road games are hard and but this one has a little added meaning with them being 41 and us being 51, its still early but our guys respect their players. And their program. So well be a hometown favorite made it back to d. C. Last night. Only thing he was there to destroy the wizards. But here was a bright spot. Closing seconds of the First Quarter and john wall is money from half court. Wiz up five. But the local kid took over in overtime. He finished with 34 in a baptism. You can say it leon. Thunder would go on to win 105103. Theres five more looks at it right there for you. Ok final note. Asking kevin if he ever thought about playing in d. C. He tells me hell always love his home but he takes pride of wearing that o. K. C. Across his chest. You had to do that to him . Hey, thats my boy you got to you got to watch that a couple of times. All right. Weather coming in here. Nothing tonight though. Rather pleasant. Partly cloudy and cool. 24 to 32 degrees. Sunshine to start the day tomorrow. Clouds increase and it looks like tomorrow night will be rain and our wintry mix and that will be the story overnight into saturday morning. Clear out late saturday afternoon. Notice the highs in the 40s. Two warm for a big snow. Maybe a couple of inches north and west of the metro area and sunshine for the day on sunday. Access to the latest computer models, update the track and the impact of the storm for friday night and saturday when he joins you tonight at 11 00. Sounds like a plan. Thank you. Thank you for joining us. Word news tonight coming on this thursday night, the breaking news. The scandal before the super bowl. The star quarterback, tom brady, answering the question. Are you a cheater . Tonight, how brady explains those deflated footballs. Who handled them after they were checked by the refs . And what now for the football star with the supermodel wife . Also tonight, the giant inferno. More than 1,000 people homeless. The state of emergency declared. Schools closed. The massive noreaster on the way. A foot of snow in texas. And its about to roar up the coast. Ginger zee is standing and at this hour late reporting on this armed robbery. The s. W. A. T. Team the robot. The suspect wearing a vest with wires. Theyre still on the scene tonight. Good evening. And its great to have you with us on this thursday night. In with tho
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