15 days away. Our meteorologist is here with a look at our first forecast. 1, 2, 3. It is just a couple of days before daylight savings time begins. That will happen this weekend. That is just right around the corner. We started out with temperatures this morning pretty chilly throughout the region. Not as bad as yesterday. That is the good news. Nine degrees at the dulles airport, 23 degrees in dca. Gaithersburg at 12. At least we are above the freezing mark and we should be hitting low 40 degree temperatures this afternoon. Clouds have been pushing out across the region. I think they will return overnight into tomorrow. Theyre watching the potential getting close to us and often not quite close enough to get any problems. If you will be traveling, we will show you some delays possible. Delays are about an hour and a half already. Also, wet weather along the gulf coast once again for today. Around here, a lot of sunshine to talk about. Our High Temperature is 40 degrees. Better weather is in our forecast. I will tell you about that in a few minutes. Thank you. At noon, a water main break is causing a traffic mess in arlington. One northbound and two southbound lanes are closed between oakland and quincy streets. Drivers heading southbound are being rerouted to 19th street south. No word on how long crews will take to fix that break. The good news is that traffic is moving once again after a morning commuter met in south county. Fell off the truck and right onto route 123. Here are more heres more on the problems this created for drivers. Sitting on itsnd side. This Massive Concrete slab caused two meters chaos this morning. It is crazy. He was driving the truck along route 123 on his way to herndon when another car cut in front of him. He slammed on his brakes and several thousand pounds of concrete came crashing down near the intersection. He says the slab used in Building Construction was change this morning. While crews used cranes to try to clean it up, the traffic continues to back up. The amount of congestion caused frustration for many drivers just one day after tuesdays traffic troubles downtown. Ive been driving for almost 45 minutes. Known was injured and no word on whether any charges will be filed. Officials at Potomac High School lifted a lockdown in place just as a precaution. Police say around 9 00 this morning, officers responded to a reported Armed Robbery in the 1400 block in maryland. Police are still on the scene investigating. Now to a developing story in montgomery county. Security is in place at montgomery counties rockville campus because of vague right there. A graffiti threat in the stairwell of the student stairwell warned school shooting. John has details on how the school is handling this. Cornerse are posted on and driving around while extra security is mobilized throughout the rockville campus today. Im concerned. It is upsetting coming coming to school and like hearing about this. I feel really uncomfortable. The message was found in a stairway wall. Graffiti, school shooting, three 4. 351 teachering to class, my locks the door five mins after class. I will step away from the door. Andrew had a long talk with his mom this morning about coming to school. Many chose to stay home. It is scary when you have to come to school and you see Something Like that. School officials are treating this as an imminent threat as police work closely with the city of Rockville Police today and over the next several days. We wanted them to be aware of what we saw in our efforts to work with police. The dean says schools have been instructing teachers to be more lenient with students not going to class today. Todayty will be beefed up and for the next several days not only in rockville but also the campus in takoma park and german town where about a month ago, a similar message was found. Officials are working to see if they are any in any way connected. Charcoals more of a style pencil. Police are also investigating a homicide. Office i officers were called in germantown tuesday night to report the shooting. Crews located the victim at an intersection at 3 55. He was taken to a hospital where he later died. Police have not released his name but they do say he was in his early 20s. Deep d. C. Please are asking for help. These people you see right here were captured on Surveillance Video and police tell us the incident happened february 20 in the evening. These recognize any of people, you are asked to contact d. C. Police. To the crisisturn in the ukraine. Just moments ago, hundreds of demonstrators waving russian flags stormed a government building. The ukraines new Prime Minister vigorously defended the legality. In ukraine with more peninsulasis on the is now also at see. These two ukrainian warships ships an, russian serious part of the fleet. The ukraine has accused russia of demanding the surrender of these antisubmarine and command ships. They have refused, there you cant ukrainian flag still waving. We count at least three russian ships not letting anyone in or out. They tried to force the surrender of ukrainian basis. But russia today continues to deny these shadowy forces are theirs. You do not have any power over them. They do not listen. Russia says it has the right to defend its citizens while the u. S. And its allies accuse russia of invading the ukraine and are demanding the with drawl of their forces. Class if russia does not choose to deescalate, our partners will have no choice but to join us to continue to expand upon steps we have taken in recent. Ays in order to isolate russia all diplomatic hands are on deck. In paris today for meetings with european, russian, and ukrainian officials. Russia has shown no sign of backing down. The International Outcry is doing nothing to deter russias takeover, now all but complete. Abc news. Checking other news around the world. Of the murdere trial in south africa. Taking the stand today is a champion boxer, a friend of the star. He claims they fired a gun inside a restaurant weeks before he shot and killed his girlfriend. Valentines day of last year. He asked a friend to take the blame of the restaurant incident. I river saying please to any, i do not one he attention around me. Class prosecutors say he shot her by accident, thinking she was a an intruder in her home. The story that still has us talking. Coming up, a teenager sues her parents, trying to force them to pay for private school and college. You how aill tell Popular Airline is cracking down on passengers with large carryon luggage. Onmatic rescue caught camera. Find out how this minivan full of children ended up in the ocean. Look outside live right now at the nations you are watching abc seven news at noon. On your side. The region will be open today for Ash Wednesday services. The day marks the start of land. The death for those who cannot make it to church, the priest is setting up what they call ashes to go. There are outside the metro station this morning and priests will be back there from 3 30 until 5 30 this evening. Side with aur consumer alert for United Airlines passengers. The airline is cracking down on passengers with oversized carryon bags. When you get to the security checkpoint and your carryon bag does not fit in the bin, from now on you will have to pay 25. This is to speed up the loading and unloading of plays. They have been slowing down the process and annoying other pastors. Some travelers feel this is another way for them to make more money. 600 Million Dollars per year from checked bags fees. In other consumer news, chipotle fans are worried because guacamole could be off the menu thanks to climate change. Chipotle says if increasing weather volatility has a big impact on the price of avocados, it may just eliminate the dead from the menu altogether instead of increasing the price. Says this concern is only theoretical for now. Calm down. Dozens of volunteers are helping the family of a navy veteran killed last year. A 50 foot a 54yearold left behind a wife and three daughters yvonne tears from Home Remodeling three bathrooms, any doors, around the nation this noon, a jury today. Not guiltyas pleaded to eight criminal charges ranging from sodomy to assault and threatening behavior. The army general has admitted to having a threeyear affair with a junior officer. He is believed to be the highestranking officer to ever face trial for Sexual Assault charges. Switching gears to another Big National Story now, a ruling in a case that has the whole country talking. You may have heard about the 18yearold High School Student in new jersey who sued her parents, demanding they pay for her private school as well as college tuition. A judge denied the request. Why the judge says the case could set a bad precedent. A sign of thetion nightmare this family is going through. Their teenage daughter who moved out last october is suing her parents for cash and publicly accusing them of neglect. She is a vulnerable young woman and her parents are not taking care for. 600 50 million a week in child support, tuition payments, and attorneys fees. A judge on tuesday did not buy it. Are we going to condone a yearold to sue her xbox . She says her parents drove her to an eating disorder and a parent say she would not obey their rules, stealing credit cards and breaking curfew. She did not want to give it up. It is a parentchild disputes so many parents face, prompting a key question, did she leave home on her own or was she kicked out . It is a fascinating legal question. If you are 18 in the state of new jersey, it does not immediately mean the parents do not have legal responsibility. The judge sided with rachel pottss parents. , the judge will rule on whether the county must pay their Daughters College tuition. Given the ruling yesterday, it does not look promising for her. Abc news, new york. To a dramatic rescue caught on camera in daytona beach, florida. Bystanders rescued three minivan andide a went into the atlantic ocean. The childrens mother was already driving on the beach where cars are allowed where she, for some reason, drove into the water. The mother escaped unharmed but bystanders had to rescue the children from the van, going deeper into the waves. Even one of the lifeguards struggled to get out. Went in the car to rescue the little girl and then was stuck in the car. The other lifeguard took him back. All the children are ok. A rescuer told the police the children said their mother was trying to kill them. Look into anywill past cases of neglect or abuse by their mother. All right. We will get a check on local weather. Beach day. Tly a good nonexecutive at a little cold out there. Snow on the beaches. Just looking at one of our cameras in ocean city. Lapse toutiful time show you speaking of our cameras. This one is from virginia. The sun came up this morning and we had quite a bit of cloud cover across the region. It makes for such a beautiful sunrise. Clouds have been up since just that time. Plenty of sunshine on tap here as we had throughout the afternoon, temperatures on the chilly side. We have gone up to 37 degrees. Not bad. Well above freezing in much of the reason. Region. 34 in frederick and 37 in martinsburg. In gaithersburg and 37 in manassas, 39 in culpepper. Lexington park is 35 degrees. Better than we were this time yesterday by about 10 degrees across the region. It is nice to see a little bit of the yellow and orange color this hour. Highpressure to our north today will be a big controlling feature. The highpressure system was battling the moisture to the south and it is just wrong enough it is kicking up a little bit of cloudiness associated but police we will not get wet. We keep our eye on the potential of a local still system that will take a similar track and get close to our region tomorrow night. This is our futurecast. We will show you this afternoon, things look fine. To the overnight hours, more than increasing cloud cover once again. Skies are generally pretty cloudy tomorrow. More so than what we are expecting today. Temperatures down just a little bit. A few degrees and likely in the upper 30s as opposed to the upper 40s. A little bit of the moisture is trying to sneak in here on your friday morning. Our best chance will be across Southern Maryland and over toward delmarva. For the most part, we will see we will be dry. Something we are watching closely. One computer model tries to bring an end. We are doing well. We will squeeze through the week. We will see dry and calm conditions overall. Our forecast for the rest of the day, mostly sunny skies with High Temperatures in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Tonight, clouds will go back in. Low temperatures between 19 and 26. The clouds are slow to come in an hour temperatures will be cooler. Keep that in mind when we wake up tomorrow morning. Mostly cloudy skies. Cool tomorrow. Upper 30s across much of the region. In termsan see better of warming temperatures coming this way. As we head toward the weekend, high in the 50s. Things look good. That will last at least until the early part of next week. 52 is our average high. We are working on it. I do not think ive ever been so excited for a monday. Happy aboutm not monday. As long as there is no snow flake when you move in wednesday. Thank you. 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