Wednesday. Again maybe a half inch or so maybe we have a inch across the area. There will be snow to the south and east. Rain showers tomorrow. Better chance for new Southern Maryland for snow on wednesday. Now we have breaking news and is bad news for the silver line. There is an indefinite delay for the first leak of the line that will get to dulles. Phase one and thats where we find peggy fox and the silver line is not quite ready to go. Peggy . Reporter if all had gone as planned and phase one of the 5. 6 billion project, we would see trains here today. But now no one can tell you when. Can you catch a ride on the silver line. Very anxious. Anticipation for the shrine grows as sunlight glimmers. But is like a mirage because it is not here nor is it coming any time soon. , i was excited. Escalators are still and a worker waits for an assignment. And the line through tysons was supposed to be running last the year. Now the wait will be pushed to the summer. There are delays. There is this, that. They are not being reached. And the Airport Authority anounsed that the contractor dulles has not yet met the requirements for completion. It was our determination that it is not yet ready to take over operational readiness. One of the items we found was the train control system. The project director says that the issues are not safety related but about reliance and predictability. They include performance issues with the automatic train control system and elevator and case later problems. Water leaks in buildings and track gauge problems. And the supervisor says that he is disappointed. It is things that could have and should have been done during the construction process. And so now the partners will take some time to make the fixes thaefplt can take weeks, months. Who knows and when it is determined to be complete, metro gets 90 days of testing. Were working four months, 5 months and how long it will take before the silver line is up and running. Well keep you posted. Peggy fox reporting. And keep on waiting. Thank you. Police in richmond are hunting for the person who killed a College Student from northern virginia. And im at Tc High School where the students are mourning the murder in richmond of a standout track star and graduate here. Kahron lees teach kerr not believe the news of the murder. Anger is one of the emotions right now, yes, questioning is the other one. Why . Reporter witnesses heard a shot outside of his apartment around midnight. It is just across the street from richmonds Virginia Union university. Police found the sophomore collapsed in the street and doctors pronounced him dead as soon as he arrived it the hospital. They saw three or four men running from the scene. And a young man who knew what it what was like to struggle. He had crimed climbed the mourn tine a degree. Reporter police are offer nothing explanation for why he was shot. A judge handed down a maximum sentence possible, 25 years to life to a man convicted of murder. Anthony taglinetti was found guilty of shooting a superintendent of a school. He and his wife had a brief relationship. Emails and Text Messages indicate they resumed that relationship. Prosecutors say that he discovered an explicit email, drove to new york and shot him to death. A hearing was held to lkhig failures on the part of the fire and ems. This is a month after a resident clansed right across the street from the fire house and no one came out to help him. And we have the emotional testimony. How was it . Reporter it was very touching and very emotional. It was not just a sign, family members whose loved ones met a similar situation after an medical emergency shared their stories of apathy. My family and i do not want anyone to feel the pain and the loss that we continue to feel. He sat in his car and waited and waited unattended. We cannot afford losing our services to incompetent personnel. Reporter each person has lost one that apologies and reform will not g back. A Council Member tommy wells brought all the players in to talk about the recent high profile failures. This is a month after a man died on a Street Corner after five firefighters at engine 26, a fire house feet away, did not the come to help. The firefighter on watch was new on probation. This is the back and forth between wells and ed smith, the president of the union. There is usually a firefighter in the front of the house. Why . Called you know being on watch duty thats to answer the door if anyone rings the bell for help. The whole point of the to be at the front door is to be there if someone comes for help . Thats. Reporter another thing they talked about how could it be they called a ambulance to help but went to the wrong area of the city. Certainly the meeting here, the reason they were here is to determine how it never happens again. Were live at the wilson building. Thank you. The Defense Department announcing major spending cuts that will be felt across the military. And the plan was announced today and we have the details. Reporter since 911, the military has bulked up resources enabling it to wage wars in afghanistan, iraq and a global war on terror. Now in a crafted plan at the pentagon the military said it will scale back to force levels not seen since before world war ii. We must adapt and make difficult decisions to ensure our military is ready and capable. Reporter the details they will reduce the forces from a high 5,670,000 to around 450,000 troops. Mat reasons will cut forces by 8000 or 4 . The elimination of the attack jet which saves 3. 4 million over five years. Our recommendations favor a smaller and more capable force putting a premium on rapidly deployable platforms that can defeat advanced ver sairrys. Reporter it reflect as Political Climate but an evolution in how the military engages the enemies. A face in point, cyber warfare. You will conduct the operations it relies mon heavily on intel against. Reporter fewer resources will leave americans vulnerable to attacks at home and abroad. He recognizes these do not come out uncertainty. Our future force will assume risks. The pentagon will present its plan next week. The president will propose a 1 pay raise for workers and military members. It is in the fiscal federal budget that the president will announce next week. And the faa is currently testing unmanned drones for commercial use next year. And temperatures are looking to use them to make deliveries. What is on and over the horizon thats coming up. And you head out treat it like a winter night. A look at the numbers. And not bad. And average is 49 and 33. Record high 78 and low 1 above. Well talk about not one but two chances in the snow and talk about a yellow alert. And state hired in december to help repair the web site. And the governor is trying to build calls for expanding medicaid coverage to people under the health care act. Today he was in a hospital trying to make that pitch. He spoke about competing bills being offered in the senate and house of delegates. It would give the proposal and bipartisan coming together the virginia way to find common ground, we would save over the next two years 324 million. If we did the house proposal it would cost us 45 million. And in what was scene as a test vote, the house rejected an option to expand the coverage. The longest serving congressman in u. S. History is retiring. Michigan representative john dingell is stepping down after his current term. The 87yearold has served in Congress Since winning his late fathers seat in 1955. Comedian harold ramis. He suffered from a disease for four years. He is known for his roles in ghost busters and stripes and directed caddy shack, ground hog day. He was 69 years old. Drones could make their way into our every day lives from the way we do business to how we drones will be a booming business. They will be used to deliver packs and medicine and emergency supplies. And the faa has to make sure that they can fly safely. We have more. This warehouse is home to the next generation of drones. The growth is pretty much incident. People need to think of these drones or machines as tool. Mike richards is an engineer turned business tycoon. It can travel on the water . This the system. And his company designs four types of unmanned aircraft. You are taking something thats been used or utilized in the military for many different applications and transforming it into a commercial application. They can fly just about anywhere and that worries advocates. The fact they are smaller. The government can use surveillance and a lot more situations. Richard said they are designed for search and rescue. He has orders for 26. Some cost a million dollars. He will not sell them until the faa can share the skies safely. You have millions in limbo . Yes it is something i try not to think about but it is good to have that problem. The faa does issue permits to test drones commercially. He hopes to get his business off the ground. The drones, they are coming. And the head of the faa said there could be 7500 drones up in the air in just the next five years. Who knows, you may be using them to predict the forecast. There you go. It shows up at my house and there is a package that looks better than my package. You cannot tell how you got it. I will have to solve. That we have two chances of snow. These are not storms. And. We have an alert out. It is hitting the rush hour. They are playing and you can see the sign there. It could be sected to the university. Call me sher lock, okay. 41 now and thats downtown. And were looking at temperatures. Dew points in the single digits. Relative humidity 25 . Indoor. They are northwest. They did gust. They will die down tonight. Here is the first system it is a small system a fast mover. Snow breaking out. Illinois, indiana. The bulk is up into iowa and all the snow fall amounts i checked less than an inch. This will race to the east not pick up moisture from the gulf or the atlantic ocean. It will be a moisture starved system. And a lot of 30s showing up. Going out treat the it like a winter night. 36 in lees burg and 33 out to bull run. Down to the south. And woodbridge 467890 and 40 in so, winter is back. Colder tonight. Tomorrow lunchtime snow showers are the best time. Temperatures will be above freezing. No worries. Wednesday, though the snow showers in the morning. Yellow alert. Both instances less than an inch combined. Less than an inch for each one. Maybe a half inch. The second one another half inch or inch. During the course of the two days an inch and a half. Tonight clear skies. Late cold temperatures low and west southwest ahead of the system. Low 30s to start. A flurry. Rush hour is over. And 11 00 and 1 00 and temperatures will be in the 30s above freezing. There is the yellow alert. Snow showers and in the morning. Well see sun. And highs in the mid30s. And the next seven days. Were lucky to break the freezing mark. Cold upper 30s. Snow showers not a big deal. Monday im watching the potential for a storm here. Rain and snow to rain. We will keep an eye on that. Parch by then. We have a look at what is coming up on 7. And how students are put through college. Thats at 7 00. Well the terps are looking to play tonight and win at home. They host syracuse. Well tell you about that when it was announced that sire are a queues would join the acc they thought it would be marylands next big rival but we have to settle for one and done as the terps in the acc in the season. And the terps host syracuse and the orangedrop to number 4 in the rankings after two losses this week. They are 77 in the acc looking to take advantage of that. They are 5 and 1 at home. And the coach thinks they can continue the playing tonight. And you know just above 500 in the league thats big. And you know. We played a lot of top teams this year. We have not played many of them at home. Were playing better against the teams. We hope to take advantage of it. They are good. They are great. It is a big challenge. Here are the teams number side by side. They are fairly even on the court. The big difference are the turn overs. They averaged 9 and terp s 13. If they can hake on and than their defense they could pull out a victory. Bad injury news and nene had an mcl sprain and miss six weeks. Approximately six weeks. It was in the game against cleveland. They will play to fill that spot signing drew good ton a 10 day contract. And the nationals manager and not the spring training and masn. The nats playing a hitting game. And the not only does it liven things up but appreciate the role. I love to be a part of it. Whatever it is we have to get that done. The new pitcher and time to reveal the latest game of the week. For to you pick from. And you 25543 or vote at at www. Wusa9. Com. What was it again . 69. The new big unit. Massive. And no big snow coming this way . No. Just the conversational tomorrow. Well keep you posted. There you go. 34 on wednesday and cold, cold, cold right on through the weekend. And the evening news is next. And pelley tonight taking down shorting, bob orr reports on how the u. S. Helped capture the biggest drug dealer in the world. Dean reynolds on the drug lords american operations. Do you think compared to Capone Guzman was worse . Yes, i do. Pelley after seeing his palace ukrainians want the head of the president they overthrew, Holly Williams got into the mansion today. 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