Storm. Well talk about that also. All right, top. So the big question right now that many parents are asking, will there be snow tomorrow morning . Thats right. Well tell you whats going on tonight to make that happen tomorrow. First, heres a look at your moments. The four hour memorial held in a rainsoaked stadium looked at times like a world cup soccer match. Danced, sang, celebrating their former leader. President obama delivered his first personal speech. I will always fall short, he makes me want to be a better man. Words spoken minutes after an unprecedented site. President obama shaking hands with raul castro. Cbs this morning, charlie rose, gayle king, and odonnell were on hand to ring the closing bell on a down day for stocks. The dow industrial lost 52 points. The nasdaq flipped 8. Resident is seen overhead. What are you proposing . Shoot it down. The idea of eyes in the sky is not the american way. So drone ordinance that goes up for a town vote. Embarrassing attack. Relentless Winter Weather across most of the nation. A slow moving storm made its way up the east coast and with colder temperatures comes icy conditions, slippery roads caused this 30car pileup. I knew they were getting into an accident. The hill between Frost Middle School isa tilted football field of fun. Is this like the best sledding hill youve ever seen or heard of . It really is. Its pretty steep and long, and although theres a lot of people here, its still fun. No major problems from our Winter Weather here. Many people stayed off the roads due to the federal government and area schools shutting down for the day. But that will not likely be the case tomorrow. Debra is in bethesda at Westbrook Elementary School with the inside track on what we can expect in Montgomery County. Hi deb. Reporter you can expect a final decision by 4 30. By 5 00 a. M. , those calls and texts will go out. Its looking good, but the whole county has to be clear to open up the schools. If you ever wondered why, we have an answer for you. This snow is in the fight of its life and its going down. Yesterday, about 4 00 in the morning, and well be here until 4 00 in the morning tomorrow. From bethesda to poolsville. The snow totals may be apples to oranges, but it takes an army of 100 plus workers to plow it, shovel it, and salt over it. More than 225 schools and buildings, so the 150,000 plus students throughout the county can safely attend schools. Its an on going battle. Hopefully the temperatures dont get too low. Answer to the burning question, why close school in one corner is snow totals to whats fallen in another. Month good manically county schools confirm thats because students and staff dont necessarily live in the same town as their school. They have to ensure everyone can get to school safely. Here in bethesda, ray and his crew seem to be ahead of the game. Its a lot of snow. So thats a good thing. Again, theyll make that decision in the morning and all has to do with the roads. Wusa9. Now this morning, snow did not stop crews from cleaning up the damage from monday mornings ice storm. This was the scene where workers were removing one large tree that had fallen on a home. A second tree also fell on a neighbors home. Nobody was hurt. And the neighborhood never lost power. If there was a bulls eye to this winter storm, it had to be the northern part of our region and the shovels there were out early. Im scott broom in frederic county, maryland, heavily hit by this mornings snow, but by no means a knockout blow. 4 inches of heavy, stick to the road signs kind of snow fell near frederic. The result on major highways like interstate 70, incidents like this one. The storm struck heaviest, but thanks to government offices, there was room for plows and salt spreaders to keep up, but off the interstate. Rural roads and side streets were the norm. One result was closed schools here in frederic county. How would you rate this one . 8. Ive seen worse. Afternoon cleanup in this land of long driveways was underway before noon. Going to work here in a few minutes. So, round two of this seasons early winter blast are behind us and School Officials here in frederic county are hoping there will be enough time to clean up by tomorrow morning and the kids hoping for another snow day, are likely to be disappointed. That decision will be made in the morning. In frederic county, scott broom, wusa9. No major Power Outages to report from todays winter storm, but we do have this alert for drivers in northern virginia. All lanes of i66 in the area of route 28. That sully road in fairfax county, all lanes will be shut down between 11 00 and midnight tonight. And power can reinstall wires that came down during yesterdays ice storm. We have some breaking news from capitol hill. The government may have been closed, but tonight, a bipartisan agreement that has been reached on the budget. Negotiations have led to a modest budget agreement to ease those awed mated spending cuts known to you as sequestration, and replace some of them with savings for future year cuts. The agreement would ease the harshest spending cuts set to hit the pentagon and agencies for a second year and require federal more details are expected any moment now and this could potentially avoid another Government Shutdown that was set to begin on january 15. So we are awaiting a press conference and if we see somebody come to the podium, we will bring you the details. Good news. Today is the day for the sleep. Flood of humanity poured into the soccer stadium to pay tribute to south africas leader. Wusa9s Derek Mcginty is in south africa. You see how well we work together, and has more on tonights tribute to nelson mandela. Reporter Nelson Mandelas sheer historic impact was enough to bring out president s and dozens of global vips to todays memorial service. His charisma and dedication to the cause that earned him the gratitude of millions of ordinary South Africans and tens of thousands of them braved sheets of driving rain today to say a simple, thank you. It was a glorious celebration of medivas life, swaying and dancing, didnt seem to matter much sometimes which dignitary was on stage. People just wanted to be there. To be part of history. Still, americas first black president drew loud cheers as he eulogized. His struggle was your struggle. His triumph was your triumph. Your dignity and your hope found expression in his life and your freedom. Your democracy is his cherished legacy. I believe it should prompt in each of us a time for self reflection. With honesty, regardless of our stat our circumstance, we must ask how well have i applied lessons in my own life. President obama shook hands with cuban leader, raul castro, whose nation has been a u. S. Enemy for decades. Despite the politics, everyone here today came to honor, remember, and celebrate a man who united and inspired generations. It was described as the people celebration, which will continue this week here as Nelson Mandelas body lies in states for three days before being moved. His home land for a burial and private ceremony. In south africa, Derek Mcginty, wusa9. A tribute on the campus of Howard University scheduled for tonight has been postponed because of todays Winter Weather. The Program Honoring south africas first black president will be rescheduled for january. Mandela visited howard back in 1994 and received an honorary doctor of law degree. Still ahead, women breaking barriers. Today, two females were appointed to top position never, ever held by women before. Yeah, im meteorologist topper shutt. You have to get this stuff off your deck before it refreezes. Were looking at serious black ice, even right now its starting to freeze. We show you the numbers. High 40, low 34. Averages are 38 and 44. Record 57 and record low is 4 above. Well come back and talk about why we have a yellow alert tonight and look ahead to another potential storm over the weekend. Up next, a deadly detour for commuter trains passengers heading to d. C. s union yn deadly start this morning. A mark train hit an suv at a crossing on the road. Two people inside that suv were killed. 20 passengers were on the train bound for union station. None of the train passengers were hurt. Investigators say it apierce the suv went around the gate at the crossing. An Airport Shuttle driver is under arrest charged with assaulting and robbing a client. Now the Victim Told Police the driver, 52yearold, Jesus Josephson picked him up and then drove him to loudoun county. Thats where josephson allegedly pulled out a blade, demanded money from the victims and dropped them off. He was arrested a short distance away, he is being held without bond. A germantown, maryland, coach and teacher is under arrest. Police launched an investigation after they were notified by Montgomery CountySchool Officials that 30year old, daniel was engaging in inappropriate contact with students. He has been working with students from private and Public Schools in bethesda and potomac for several years and police are concerned there may be other victims. Coming up next, two local parents will soon go on trial for allegedly breaking into the home of their daughters boyfriend and beating him with a baseball bat. Well tell you why prosecutors are convinced th only on 9, some local parents will be in a maryland courtroom on friday accused of breaking into the home of their daughters boyfriend and beating him with a baseball bat. Thats right. According to police, the parents blame their daughters drug use on the young man. Andrea mccarren brings us up to date on this very unusual story. These are the faces of four Montgomery County residents who were allegedly set on revenge. In mid november, william and tanya, along with daniel and his girlfriend, katherine, broke into this home and savagely beat the young man inside, according to charging documents. Their victim, eric, was the boyfriend of kristen delmar. Shes the daughter of daniel and tonya. Police say they blame manly for their daughters drug problems. She was arrested in late october and charged with possessing heroin, syringes, and other paraphernalia. William beat manly with a metal baseball bat, trackturing his skull and landing him at baltimore shock trauma. Sister walked in on the attack and called 911. She told investigators that delmar were holding a wooden baseball bat and a hunting knife and stress to return the next night. All four adults are facing firstdegree burglary and assault charges. Late last month, a judge ordered all of them to stay away from mandly and his home. Andrea mccarren, wusa9. Bob mcdonnell is proposing new Mental Health initiatives, 28 million in additional funding for critical and Mental Health services and the creation of a task force to look at ways to head off what he calls a Mental Health crisis. The announcement comes less than a month after state senator, creigh deeds, was stabbed by his own son, gust. You know this story, gus killed himself. Governor mcdonnell says he spoke to senator deeds since that attack. I assured him we have people that care deeply about him. Were a close knit family here in the legislature and looking over the last six, seven years, i think we have a deeper obligation to fix and address the resources for everyone. Governor mcdonnell another example of how the commonwealth experienced tremendous heart ache as a result of Mental Health tragedy. Thats a woman who will be leading the center for the first time. Become the National Cultural and Performance Centers new president next september. Rutter is currently the head of the chicago symphony o tray and the chairman says she has a unique set of skills that the board wanted. She succeeds michael, who is stepping down in august after 13 years as president. And also for the fir time, a woman will be in charge of a major u. S. Auto company. Mary berra will be General Motors next ceo. She worked and is currently the Companys Product Development chief. She replaces dan when he steps down in mid january. Experts say the appointment should help because of the number of women who make or influence car making decisions. You think this should have shut the federal government down for that . Youre going to ask me that . Im getting the roads were never that bad. So probably not, no. But then we would know, right, everybody was on the road, the road looked a little different. No. You dont think so . More traffic on the road, so no, i think in town, you are probably okay. Youre up in upper Montgomery County, maybe a delay. I dont know. Not putting me on the spot. Exactly. All we can do is say how much snow is going to fall. We cant do that. Lets look at video now from the metro. It was, you know, a little bit of snow. You have never said south of town would be that much. It was going to be district north. But it wasnt that crazy bad. We asked folks on facebook today, snow makes me want to and lets see here. Sue kidd said this. Stay in my pjs all day and listen to christmas music. Lets take a look at pictures now. This was from sunday and this was from the ice storm. This is from fairfax and these are the berries coated in ice there. Now well fast forward to today and now they are coated in snow. Still a very nice picture. A little bit of ice still melting with the snow and laura sent that in. Great job. We love to get snow pictures. Snow totals. Most of these are on our website. Heres another batch for you. Coldsville 3 inches. Oldtown almost 2. Chantilly 3 and bluemont2. 3. Unless you are south of town was right. Now, 37. The dew point was 26 and now 22. Why do i talk about the dew point . Its a function of how much humidity is in the air and lower the dew point, the lower the temperature can fall. Clear skies and snow is gone. The snow left new england. 32 already in gaithersburg. 30 in frederic and 32 in leesburg. I was just outside in the weather terrace. It is beginning to freeze. So be careful. Yellow alert for refreezing, what appears wet may be black ice. Bus stop temperatures 18 to 28. If you go on time and lots of sun on wednesday, but still cold. Temperatures struggling to get into the mid 30s. 20s to start. 30 by 11 00, so were not above freezing. And 34 with sunshine. Next three days, green, green, and green, thankfully. 34 tomorrow. 31 on thursday. Dry near 40. Next seven days. Saturday, we keep loring the temperature. We talked about a possible morning mix. We got the morning mix in again and temperatures only in the upper 30s, maybe a morning shower on sunday and very, very cold monday. Only 30 for a high back in the low 40s on tuesday. Losing sight of the average is 48 and 49. And we certainly didnt mean to put you on the spot. January jeffcoat is in the newsroom with a look at whats ahead at 7 00. Hi jan. Hi, bruce. The ceo of popular Yoga Clothing line, lumulemon is stepping down after making comments that rubbed women the wrong way. Plus, a sixyearold is suspended from class and accused of sexual harassment. More on what that first grader did that landed him in hot water. And we want to thank everyone who took part in our virtual joy drive. Its not too late for you to bring joy this holiday season. Just a click of a button, you can give a gift, send a holiday message. Log on to wusa9. Com givejoy to learn exactly how you can give joy this holiday season. Well be right back. Could this be the best sledding hill in the whole region . 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He fell off. You just ripped it to pieces. We did. I was going to get all muddy. All muddy and really messy. And you like that . Yeah. The kids were just wishing the storm had stuck around a little longer. Do you guys want to go right back to school tomorrow, right . No. Bruce leshan, wusa9. He faired okay. Reporters fight for that story. I know. I know a lot of people who were out hitting the sleds today. They had a great time. Wait until it freezes, it will get better. Then it will be slippery. Thats it for us. The cbs evening news is next. And ill be back at 7 00 with jan jeffcoat for your only local news at 7 00. Once upon a time, an insurance clerk stumbled upon a cottage. [knock] no one was at home, but on the kitchen table