Arms. Im not totally surprised that something happened over there. Its always loud. Theres always people fighting, you know. So the cops are over there a lot. Reporter neighbors say theres been trouble before at the house on concord drive, but police say there is no history of trouble between john and erica sherwood, no protective order, no prior Domestic Violence calls, just a short family argument that ended in murder. Im sorry for her, you know, and her family. Its terrible. Reporter Police Say John sherwood has no fixed address. He will likely go before a judge tomorrow. [ audio difficulties ] hes likely to go before a judge tomorrow, but for now theyll hold him in jail with no bond. New years day began with violence in Prince Georges County as well. 22yearold stefon powell was shot and killed in the Camden Apartments parking garage in college park. Police say powell and another man fired at each other. The gunman remains on the loose. Dozens of demonstrators today staged a diein at Westfield WheatonShopping Mall to call attention to alleged police brutality. Protesters filed through the mall peacefully, some holding up their hands and others carrying signs that said black lives matter. Organizers had given mall management advance notice. Mayor elect Muriel Bowser has already begun the celebration of becoming d. C. s new mayor. She kicked off a 5k fun run this morning and gets sworn in tomorrow at the Convention Center in northwest. Thats where well find surae chinn right now with all the details. Reporter it should be a good celebration, deb, and 10,000 people are expected to pack into the Convention Center here tomorrow. Everything is ready to go and people have high hopes for the incoming mayor. I just hope that she can do whats best for the people of d. C. Thats my main concern. Reporter d. C. Residents and its visitors are expecting big things from mayor elect Muriel Bowser. Better parking maybe, one, two, to coordinate lights. I would obviously like to see a Better School system. Thats what i really look for because im seeing that a lot of schools are still being shut as a teacher they really need that support as well. Reporter the ward 4 councilwoman has called her inauguration a fresh start. Some residents hope thats true after one term mayor vincent gray spent a lot of his time in Office Answering allegations of improper campaign finances. Hopefully shell steer clear of that and just give us something new to look at in the new year. Reporter the mayor elect kicked off her threeday inaugural festivities with a 5k run in northwest. The celebration continues through saturday. Yes. I think fresh start really sums it up. Its a great time for the city. Weve made a lot of progress in the city over the past 20 years, its grown, but muriel is really talking about a fresh start. Reporter and there will be lots of crowds here tomorrow, so expect to get here bright and early. Things start tomorrow around 8 00. Theres an inner faith church service. Heres rundown for you. At 8 a. M. Again that church service, 9 30 in the beginning of the ceremonies. The mayor elect is expected to be sworn in at 11 25 tomorrow morning. The inaugural ball is 7 00 tomorrow night. Sheila e is the headliner and the last thing outgained is saturday, an inaugural kids on the agenda is saturday, an inaugural kids party that begins at noon. People are suggested to take the metro, the stop mount vernon square. You can also go to our website and the wusa9 app to get all the information and details because you do have to register to some events and gets tickets. The swearing in ceremony is open to the public. No particulars are needed. It was tickets are needed. It was a big day for the Washington Capitals. The caps beat the blackhawks 3 2 in the annual nhl winter classic. It turned washington d. C. Into hockey town usa. Our Diane Roberts was in the crowd and she met a bunch of pumped up fans. Reporter i see here some girl power. How are you guys doing . Awesome, awesome. Reporter what are you looking forward to most . Just the excitement and all the hoopla and stuff like that. Ive never been to one before. Its awesome. Pretty cool to be outside, too. Maybe the price for the most dedicated caps fan goes to this guy right here, ovie, the bulldog. He traveled all the way from san diego for the big game today and well have much or much more on the caps victory coming up in sports. First alert meteorologist erica grow joins us now with a look at your forecast. Happy new year happy new year to you, jan. Temperatures are about average. The win made it feel colder. Right now its 42 in downtown washington, but look to the west. Temperatures are in the teens and 20s, only 22, boise 16 and places that are normally very mild, only 56 now in l. A. , 54 in San Francisco and its only 45 degrees right now in phoenix, but we are going to see milder air arrive before that colder stuff makes it here. Theres a storm system thats arriving from the south. You can see that stark contrast in temperatures here. That cold front in the southeast will move toward us heading into this weekend. Looking ahead this is what were the rain will approach on saturday. Most of it doesnt move in until the afternoon, early evening hours. Theres a chance for icy spots in the mountains, but in the immediate metro its just going to be rain and rain showers with milder breezy conditions on sunday with more rain. This weekend will be a wet one. Colder air arrives behind sundays system. Well talk about that coming up in the first alert sevenday forecast. The search for air asia flight 8501 is about to resume. That search was called off early thursday due to poor weather conditions. Crews have yet to locate much of the wreckage at the bottom of the java sea. 12 bodies have been recovered meaning 150 remain missing. The weather is blamed for much of the delay and the black boxes are still out there somewhere. The high seas are keeping searchers from hearing the pings. You need real calm or silence in order to do that. Otherwise you will interfere with the other signal or other noise. Experts say it could take another week to recover those black boxes. And a woman is shot twice in her own home, coming up why the towns police chief is now placed on administrative leave. Also the the wife of a Georgia Police chief is in Critical Condition after she was shot twice inside her home. It happened early this morning in Peachtree City about 30 miles from atlanta. The police chief William Mccollom called 911 to report hed accidentally shot his wife twice. No charges have been filed and its not clear what led to the shooting. The chief has been placed on administrative leave. Jeb bush is now resigning from all of his board memberships both nonprofit and business in a move to help clear a path toward a potential president ial campaign, this not long after he announced plans to senator a white house bid. The former Florida Governor remains a partner in a consulting company. He is seen as an early favorite of the republican party. A 90yearold florida man is knowingly breaking the law again. Police say they wont cite him this time. Arnold abbott is a homeless advocate violating ft. Lauderdale City Ordinance by feeding the homeless without nearby access to bathrooms and hand washing. This has been a long battle for abbott who has been fighting city hall for years. The fight is on and i havent heard a word from the city yet. Theyre supposed to be trying to mediate in and when i hear from them, well start our talks. Abbott vows to keep feeding the homeless whether or not a deal is reached. Wow. He is 90. Moving on what do the words bae, foodie and swag have in common . Theyre among the list on a 40th annual list of words or phrases that should be banned. The list is compiled by folks at Lake Superior state university. The other words hack, cra, cra, polar vortex, friend raising, takeaway and nation. A former Public Relations director started that list in 1976 with phrases that annoyed him and his friends. Wow. Up next the boston bombing victim said her decision to amputate her leg was the its the time of year for making lists. At chevrolet, weve made it onto a few lists ourselves. In fact this year, weve been at the top of more awards lists than any other car company. Now during the chevy year end event put us on yours. Choose a cruze in stock the longest and get cash back for 20 percent of the msrp. Thats over four thousand two hundred fifty dollars on this cruze lt. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. Jury selection begins monday for Boston Marathon bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev. 27yearold Rebecca Demartino is one of the survivors. She got her first chance yesterday to walk on her new prosthetic leg. When she almost lost it all, near the Boston Marathon finish line. For me to be that close to something that could have destroyed me. Rebecca demartino found out that all she has is pretty amazing. You dont realize how many Little Blessings are in your life. The miracle of putting 1 foot in front of the other. If this means walking, i have not walked in so long. Where he beck aves fitted for her new leg rebecca was fitted for her new leg today after 18 months and 17 surgeries, having the leg amputated last month. The day that i made the decision to chop it off is the best thing i have ever done for myself. Shes also cut off thinking about the trial of dzhokhar tsarnaev, accused of setting off the bombs with his brother. Jury selection is set to begin monday. It doesnt matter what happens. Its not my judgment to make and it also doesnt change anything thats happened to me. She put aside bitterness along with her crutches to make room for whats next with her new husband and young son. Im just excited that she gets to run races with me and play with me now. Reporter one big race stands out. Rebecca plans to run the Boston Marathon in april with a special message her mom embroidered for her leg running with her. She said just put blessed because thats what we are. Reporter blessed with first steps that mean more than a toddlers. This is 10 times better. Reporter because its the gift of a new year to keep pushing forward. Now theres no stopping. Wow. That is amazing. That was alice barr reporting from our sister station khou in houston and we look forward to watching rebecca run in april. The roses were nearly frozen at this years rose bowl parade. At 33 degrees the temperature was just 1 degree from the coldest on record. Further south in san diego a very rare sight, snow covered palm trees . Just an hour away some mountain communities received up to 18 inches of snow. Los Angeles International airport set a new record, a low of 36 degrees breaking a 43 year record. I know you love it when theyre complaining, so cold. I say boohoo, but record cold, i can understand that. Its a shock to the system. We are going to get an arctic blast next week, so lets enjoy the relatively milder temperatures the next three days. Unfortunately this weekends milder temperatures come at a price, so we cant win. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, the capitol here for you and some pretty chilly temperatures, 42 degrees. Its still not bad, though. Our average high this time of year is 44, so could be a lot colder, winds out of the south at 10 miles per hour. The dew point is in the teens. In our weather headlines well see a few clouds arrive tonight, not as cold as last night. Last night was just absolutely frigid. Some of us dipped into the teens. That will not be the case tonight. As we head into friday, less sunshine, more cloud cover, but its still dry. We dont have any rain until saturday afternoon for most of the metro area. As we head into sunday, more rain arrives and thats when it will be the mildest. Sunday is the mildest day, but unfortunately, of course, we have the rain at the same time that we have milder temperatures. Were down in the 30s in much of the metro area, 37 in leesburg and frederick, gaithersburg and up in york as well, 42 now in fredericksburg and 39 degrees in annapolis. On our satellite and radar map you can see the clear skies will go by the wayside with some cloud cover approaching from the west. This is not the same cloud cover thats going to bring us the rain. Thats still hundreds of miles away. On 9 futurecast well see that cloud cover make its approach saturday, but friday the system is still tracking to the south of us. This storm track will lift it to us as we head into saturday. Here comes the shield of rain. Its in the Morning Hours that were still dry, but as we head into the afternoon, showers start to push through. Notice a tiny blip of pink there. The mountains could see icy accumulations in the morning as the system arrives on saturday, but even that will get washed away as milder temperatures arrive. In the afternoon we still have the rain moving through in the metro area and more rain and you can see the reds and oranges here kaeding the potential of some down indicating the potential of some downpours, maybe even a rumble of thunder saturday night into sunday. Sunday more of that activity continues to push through. It starts to get spottier, but thats an indication of the cold front making its way through with a strong push of milder air. It will be breezy with the milder temperatures sunday. Overnight tonight not the case. Its going to be dry and the winds will be relatively calm, down to 22 in the suburbs tonight, 30 downtown, winds west 5 to 10 miles per hour. Friday morning temperatures in the 20s and 30s, partly cloudy skies, winds out of the west at 10 miles per hour. Then in the afternoon high temperatures between 45 and 50, so a little milder than average, still dry, but it will be mostly cloudy. On saturday the showers arrive for most of us in the afternoon, but as i mentioned in the mountains especially to the south and west of the beltway theres potential for a little ice. On sunday more showers arrive and it gets much milder with a high of 55. In the first alert sevenday forecast here comes that chill i was talking about before, high temperatures in the 30s for the entire workweek as you head the kids back to school for the first time this year. Certainly didnt cause any problems for the winter classic today. No. They had plenty of sun, but the game just went on. There werent that many problems, sun glare wasnt enough to delay todays winter classic. Those that braved the cold got now wusa9 game on sports with Kristen Berset brought to you by xfinity. It was a big win for the capitals and a big moment for d. C. The Washington Capitals have really gotten hot the last month or so under new head coach barry trotz, but today provided another challenge taking on one of the best teams in the nhl in a rather unusual situation. The first winter classic in the Nations Capital provides the country with an awesome backdrop, a flyover, an exciting hockey game, beautiful blue skies. The caps got things going early with back to back goals from eric fehr and Alex Ovechkin with the game tied and time winding down it appeared we night get some free hockey. Instead the might get some free hockey. Instead the capitals troy brouwer comes up with a big goal with 12 seconds to go. Caps win 32. Our Diane Roberts was there and joins us now from nationals park. Great game, diane. Reporter it was amazing. This is the seventh winter classic, the second one the caps have been part of. They beat the penguins in pittsburgh in 201131 in pittsburgh. This one was for the 3 within 3 31 in pittsburgh. This one was for the fans. This was by far a better experience than the last one. As we salute the crowd its a pretty cool feeling with the crowd still cheering so loud. I think ill remember that forever. It does feel good to have the league belief in us and i think this was the best winter classic. Reporter i ran into ted leonsis as i walked out of the locker room. He was all smiles. The players were all smiles, a really great day here at nationals park, the baseball stadium playing outdoor hockey. Back to you. Thank you so much. To the redskins now, theyre searching for their new defensive coordinator. Theyve been given permission to meet with 9ers head backs coach. They are expected to meet with linebackers coach joe barry who worked in tampa. Others mentioned include defensive backs coach Raheem Morris and wade phillips. Up the road the Baltimore Ravens putting in their final preps for their wildcard game against the steelers saturday in what will be a cold rainy night in pittsburgh, for for most of this ravens team this is either their first postseason or first with the purple and black and they arent ready to be one and done. We came here for a little i mean, you know, the old geadda of you give an inch, take a yard. I came here for something more than just those, but came here for the ultimate prize and were going to take it one week at a time. What better way to start the postseason than against the hated steelers . Theyve never won there in the postseason. It could be a big victory for them. Time for a change. Thanks for watching. Stay with wusa9 for the cbs evening news which is next. Its the time of year for making lists. At chevrolet, weve made it onto a few lists ourselves. In fact this year, weve been at the top of more awards lists than any other car company. Now during the chevy year end event, put us on yours. Choose an impala in stock the longest and get cash back for 20 percent of the msrp. Thats over sixtyfive hundred dollars on this impala lt. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. Glor tonight, a new year about new warnings about the flu. Patients are filling hospitals across the country. It was bonebreaking pain. Glor Mark Strassmann reports on the epidemic from inside a qulinnic in georgia. Dr. Jon lapook and what physicians are doing. A bitter winter storm in the planes. Meteorologist eric fisher says a bigger system could ruin travel plans this weekend. co allen pizzey learned the search for flight 8501, could be a while before it gets better. And John Blackstone on the strangest new laws of 2015. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley