Chance to see snow if you are south and east in town and south and east of 95 and into la plata and Southern Maryland. After that, we are left with snow showers. I will. A city with the impact, light snow arriving with thundersnow possible and dangerous conditions, especially in the wee hours of the morning. 1012 inches is possible and we will come back to highlight other cities and talk about the wind behind the storm. Good evening. Im lesli foster. Im bruce johnson. You and the kids might look forward to snow days. Snow can be difficult. Heres your chance to help. Dc asks for snow heroes and female heroes to help. Heres what you need to know. Reporter with the afternoon sun and the forsythia and bloom you may be tempted to move forward with spring plans but put your potting soil away and break out the ice melt. Volunteers are on standby to its a painful reminder. This is where we were last year and the same volunteers who dug you out then are on the list and getting connected with seniors in need. Ive been in a Wonderful Program because i cant go out there and shovel snow anymore. Reporter Helen Randolph has snow supplies ready but its only groceries. Last year, a volunteer shoveled her out. Back how long did she do it . I woke up and it was done. [ laughter ] its something that has been done for decades in cities like dc but this formalizes it. Log on to serve. Dc and sign a waiver and you can select a senior by selecting your zip code and select a property or a senior within close proximity of where you live. They will register you and connect you with a volunteer. Reporter we spread the word to the she was highly complementary about it. Im hoping this is something we could get. Reporter this city had 3600 volunteers last year but they could always use more. Of you are willing and able, theyd like you to help your neighbors in need. Wusa9, in the northwest. Volunteer shoveled out more than 2000 seniors last year. As mentioned, log on to our wusa9 mobile app to learn how. You can even get a shovel if you need one. Topper said a bullseye is western Loudon County and when it snows, people know where to go. Nichols hardware is located off main street, for more than 100 years. Was founded by Edward Nichols and from sleds to shovels and scrapers, you can find me much anything you need from the store. Bring on the snow. We havent had any this year. I havent written my snowmobile and about two years. Reporter why is it important to you . We celebrated 100 years a couple of years ago and it was opened in 1914. Id like to keep it going if i could. Its more difficult all the time. Mr. Nichols still manages the store and he turns 87 next weekend still comes to work every day. We want to see this late season storm through your eyes. Email your photos and videos to yourpics wusa9 and use the hashtag snowday9 on social media or share them on the wusa9 face page. Yes. Reporter air travel will take a hit. Looking at reagan national, we can tell you airlin for later today and tomorrow and most of the cancellations today are out of chicago. Tomorrows flights are along dc to the boston corridor. Rushhour drivers are trying to get home before the bad weather hits. Ellen bryan is here to tell us when you might expect your loved one home for dinner. It will take a little bit. Ive been talking to mike and jan, and they are talking about this side of the beltway, the inner loop when you pass by 355 off to off the American Legion bridge is jammed. Mike is an ucstk aftrfic as he is trying to pass by colville road. It will be slow. If you have someone trying to get home, it seems like everyone got on the roads at the same time. The only accident i have is on route 32 westbound when you hit route 108 and it is backed up to route 29, but no significant delays. In addition, all of the Train Services tonight until midnight. They open tomorrow at 5 00 a. M. But an important note, they operate on a saturday schedule. Trains come in every 12 minutes and they will have a single tracking from braddock road to huntington or van dorn street, part of safetrack search 13. They want have the Shuttle Bus Service to get you around the delays. Metro bus, someone might come home delayed or detoured on the metro bus, stuck in traffic. Tuesday, metro bus will run on a Severe Snow Service schedule, only running route on the major roadways and metro access already closed at 4 00 and theyre closed again tomorrow. Mark announced a tuesday letter our schedule and tuesday is a letter as scheduled. Theyre having trouble with gps so all the trains are on time, you might not see them because the gps is down. Good to know. We will be on early in the morning to cover the winter storm. Wake up with mike gag at 4 00 a. M. They will get you uptodate with the latest on the weather, and the traffic cancellations and all you need to know. Get updated closings and track the storm on radar with our free wusa9 at. German chancellor angle of merkel has postponed her trip to the white house due to the winter storm. Merkel was due to arrive in washington late tonight for meetings with President Donald Trump tomorrow. She called off trthe ip at the last minute due to the weather. The visit has been rescheduled until friday. President trump has said this. Ive been receiving the latest information on the blizzard forecast and i think we are in very good shape. We are prepared and everybody in government is fully prepared and ready and the entire northeast, it seems, is under a very severe winter storm warning. So, lets hope it wont be as bad as some people are predict thing. Usually it isnt. More big news. The Nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said 14 Million People would Lose Health Coverage under the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare. That number would climb to 24 million uninsured people by 2026. The anxiously awaited cbo numbers are bloated President Trump was working to ensure the gop healthcare bill stays on track. The white house said it strongly disagrees with the analysis. Reporter President Donald Trump used his first Cabinet Meeting to talk gop negotiations to repeal and replace obamacare. We are working roundthe clock and i think, ultimately, the big beneficiary will be the American People. Reporter the gop plan scaled back obamacare subsidies, cuts medicaid and eliminates the energy the individual mandate, and they estimate 14 million will Lose Health Insurance next year under the republican bill. That number grows to 24 million in 2026. The cbos numbers are fo skeptic skeptics. Democrats dont like it at all. What the American People want is an improvement on obamacare, not the decimation of obamacare. Reporter monday, the president met with americans who said obamacare has failed them. Our rates are three times what they were before obamacare started. Reporter President Donald Trump promises better healthcare coverage with the gop gop plan once the free market takes hold. You will say rates go down and rate at and plans go up. Reporter the white house continues its outreach to skeptical republicans this week are craig boswell, cbs news on capitol hill. Tom price said the house healthcare bill will cover more individuals at a lower cost and conservative lawmakers are calling the legislation obamacare lite and they dont like the tax credits designed to help pay for the insurance and they scheduled a meeting tomorrow. During his First Official Cabinet Meeting, President Donald Trump ignored questions again about the accusations that former president barack Obama Wiretapped trump tower during the 2016 president ial campaign. The house intelligence commission, committee, asked the Justice Department to provide evidence, but that hasnt happened. Struck White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer is walking back the president s claim saying he used the word wiretap in quotes to broadly refer to surveillance. He doesnt really think that president obama went and tapped his phone, personally. But, i think theres no question that the Obama Administration that there were actions about surveillance and other activities that occurred in the 2016 election. President donald trump signed an executive order reorganizing the federal government today on the order launches an investigation into how each executive department and agency spends money and what services they provide. Coming up, more than five years after the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse case rocked penn state, two former administrators plead guilty in connection with the scandal. Newly released video raises new questions about wh did you know slow internet can actualolly hd your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats 10 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. Newman from information on the california man charged with jumping the white house fence on friday night while caring two cans of mace. Prosecutors waived in the indictment planting plea talks and the judge released 26year old, jonathan tran, the condition that he reports to a federal court in san jose to undergo a Mental Health evaluation and stay away from the white house. The next hearing is in april. A prosecutor for st. Louis county man uses the word pathetic to describe a new documentary about the Deadly Police shooting a michael brown. Its called stranger fruit and covers browns killing and ferguson, missouri in 2014. The prosecutor said store Surveillance Footage in the documentary is heavily edited and the filmmaker claims the newly uncovered footage proves brown did not steal from the Convenience Store accused of robbing before being shot by officer darren wilson. He didnt take anything from the store for the store to claim that he took something and was asked for it back, why on earth would the clerk give him something, put it in a bag and realize, by the way, give me that bag back. Michael browns death led to months of demonstrations followed by a federal review and police reform. Officer wilson was not charged in browns death. Guilty pleas in connection with the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. Exathletic director, tim curley, and former University Vice president , gary schultz, both pleaded guilty to misdemeanor child endangerment. It carries a sentence of up to five years in prison. The two men were among three former administrators who failed to go to police after a graduate student told them second sandusky sexually abused the boy and the teen shower team shower in 1991. There will be a trial and sandusky in prison after being convicted in 2012 of abusing the victims. Coming up, how the snow could affect the Cherry Blossoms annual show along the tidal basin. Most of us in the dc area are under it winter storm warning, and blizzard warnings have been issued for parts of new york, new jersey and connecticut. To feet of snow . Beginning tonight, through much of tuesday, and the mayor has called for most of schools to be closed. Were seeing this snow storm heading exactly at the time when parents will be trying to move around with their children and with this kind of intense activity, 24 inches an hour, it wont be safe. The mayor said sanitation crews will work 12 hour shifts to stay on top of the noreaster and amtrak announced limited service between dc and new york tomorrow. If you have plans to travel to new york and further north, you better call ahead before this years Cherry Blossom blooms along the tidal basin may not happen this year. This is huge the National Park service said they havent seen anything like this in nearly a century of tracking these trees. The blossoms pushed out early because of unusually warm temperatures. The frost will hit them when they are most vulnerable and the Park Service Said its not the snow, it is the cold temperatures through the week that may kill them. You could be looking at the first time where you see the trees, but the most abundant it may not make it to peak bloom. Over one week ago, peak bloom was set to break the early records. The Cherry Blossom show will go on with the festival starting on march 20, blossoms or not. This is huge they didnt bloom 90 years ago . It hasnt happened since then. Loudon county and Prince William are clos new york could get hammered but it is tricky. The forecast and the metro, 24 inches per hour. If they get thundersnow. They also could get warm air and a 95 it could end up being rain. It is a tough forecast. West of 95, it is hammer time. Here is the area, eight have been 12 inches north and west of town and 48 in prince georges county, closer to 4 in Charles County and the rest, 1 2 inches. Extreme Southern Maryland, st. Marys county, nothing at all accumulating. But, the last few days its been a tricky case where if you are west of 95 it will be colder and north of 66, your best chance of heavy snow. A live look outside, snow is falling and yes, it is 41 with two points coming up a little bit. The temperatures will meet, it is called the last light snow with heavy snow in the mix at 10 00. Tomorrow morning will be a mass early on and 812 north and west of the beltway. Either above or around 32 with the mix and it will greatly cut the accumulations around the immediate district. It stays cold, refreezing the rest of the week. When the snow shuts off tomorrow at noon, it will still freeze every night. Here is a storm and you can see that its off the South Carolina coast with a ton of moisture pumping up the atlantic seaboard. A little bit of snow breaking out around town toward stafford. There are some comments on facebook. Thanks for doing that. To the south and east, waldorf, a mixture in clinton, down route five, no problems getting home. It may be enough to what the ground and thats it. 8 00, snow to the then by 10 00, snow spreads the area. The home before 10 00. It will go from light at cavity to a moderate band of snow. Temperatures will be above freezing but heavy snow is north and west and tempts freezing and by 4 00, this may be overdone with the mixing and the warm air will be east of i 95. By 6 00 tomorrow, more snow in gaithersburg, martinsburg and hager town and frederick, you are in the good bullseye. Further north, you will be better. By 8 00, snow in the metro and then later in the morning, cold air and Southern Maryland with your chance to get snow between 10 00 and 1 00, 10 00 a. M. Until 1 00 p. M. Tomorrow. Snow across the board in the flurries by 1 00 with temps in the 30s. 38 on wednesday and more snow showers. Cold on thursday, only 39. Into st. 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