Low temperatures and arctic air combined with gusty winds, really delivering quite a tight out there. 33 Miles Per Hour wind gusts in leesburg. 45 mile per hour wind gusts at joint base andrews. At the bust up this morning, cold, 20 to 25 degrees. Will get up to around freezing, 32, the temperature at 2 00. This will be one of those days were you just hurry from point a to point the. Windchill conditions today in the 20 bus. We are still tracking a small chance of us getting a few flurries and a little bit of snow from this weather system right here. I will show you where it moves in and when it could be impacting area roads when it comes up. Julie . Julie lanes are open but we are having some problems inside the beltway due to utility work on Dolly Madison boulevard , blocked off until further notice for ongoing utility work. For the beltway itself, all lanes are open at 270 with a 30 may commute from 239 to the split. Light traffic overall, college park headed towards 270 270. This mornings concern is the metro red line with trains modified between shady grove road and glenmont. Grosvenor, running every five minutes instead of every four. Bus service will be made available for you but additional time will be needed on the red line. Back in the next 10 minutes, we will update your right at the wilson bridge. Adrianna breaking overnight, a historic political shakeup. Autria doug jones turning alabama blue. Beating out roy moore for the Alabama Senate seat. Last night he took the stage with the message for his supporters. I want to thank you for coming when the vote is this close, its not over. We also know that god is always in control. Poll numbersxit are showing unprecedented turnout. Andanna black, latino, women voters being the key to doug jones win. Key. Rnout was doug jones got the backing he desperately needed to pull off this impressive win after voters turned out in Record Numbers. 96 of africanamericans supported jones. Very similar to president obama in 2012. Jones also did well with white voters, winning 31 , double the obama share from five years ago. More along with women the 2012 election. Most voters said that the allegations of Sexual Misconduct against roy moore were not an important factor when casting their vote. On that topic, exit polls showed that roy moore gained momentum late in the race after the allegations surfaced. But obviously not enough. Back to you guys. President trump tweeting about the race, saying congratulations to jones for a hardfought victory. The people of alabama are great and republicans will have another shot seat in a short time. This comes after the president back to roy moore leading up to the election. Today, another grilling in the pressure probe. Go beforetein set to the House Judiciary Committee and the focus his Text Messages. Report republicans want to know more about reports that more than one of that one of robert was removed after sending antitrump texts. Dayton says he will announce his choice to replace al franken, who announced a resignation last week after being accused of Improper Conduct towards half of a dozen women. Hes expected to choose tina smith as a fillin. Metro delays are in place on the red line. Livea suzanne kennedys of the takoma park station. This is all because of a piece of the metro past . We will explain that in a second. Ultimately this means another day of challenging commute for metro riders. This is a safety issue. One that metro wants to manage and will ultimately fix this weekend. The problem is with a communication cable that is used to transmit speed and location of trains. Metro says that its for decades old and dates to the original construction of the system. Between brooke land and fort totten and fort totten and takoma park will be limited to one train on a track at a time. Trains will be running every 10 grove andtween shady glenmont rather than every eight minutes. Additional trains will run between grosvenor and noma gallaudet. Meaning service will be every five minutes at that station rather than every four state four minutes. Buses will be coming in so that they can help do the work possible. Reporting live in northwest washington, suzanne kennedy, good morning washington. A new look at a devastating fire in howard county. Several people forced to stay with friends and family after the garage caught fire in columbia. The good news this morning, no one was hurt. Its 6 06 and police are on the lookout the people behind the double shooting in germantown. The gunfire interrupted just before 6 30 last night. Two men were shot. A bullet went through one of the restaurant has windows. One of the victims suffered minor injuries and the other is our covering after surgery. Unbelievable video that people cannot stop talking or laughing about this morning. A bizarre traffic backup on route 28 near the dulles toll road. Police say a man who was involved in a car crash got out anotherar, attacked driver and started stripping. Once naked, he jumped on another passing vehicle and rode on top of it for a while before eventually writing away. Police eventually cut up with him on Dulles Airport property and arrested him. Joint base anacostia and southwest d. C. , sor today is the last day to brighten up the holiday for children in need this season. We are running our toys for tots drive and you have to go to wjla. Com toys to donate and we will take care of the rest. Another battle brewing on twitter. The tweet that has one senator leveling accusations of slot shaming. Shaming. Then the force is strong with this movie. The royal turnout at the london premiere and a high point already from the critics. We are on a weather veronica we are on a weather and afor the unusual cold Winter Weather advisory being issued in western maryland. Af think of your fellow man, lend him a helping hand, put a little love in your heart. Put a little love in your heart. In your heart. In your heart. In your heart. In your heart. vo going on now, our subaru share the love event will have donated over one hundred fifteen Million Dollars to those in need. Veronica colbert is a blast of cold arctic air coming in that might have you adding extra time to your prep work this morning. 32 to 33 during her 2 00 to 3 00 hour, with sunshine and it will still be windy, the windchill temperatures will be low. Not only here but here through North Carolina and virginia, hovering around freezing and we stay there for the week with wind chills around 30 degrees or lower on your thursday and friday. We will be tracking more weather tonight around howard county, frederick county, northern montgomery as early as 8 30 to 10 00 this evening when there could be more in the way of snow throughpassing right the area. Could be impacting area roads by tomorrow morning leading to slick conditions. Fr good morning washington so we will take another look at this and we will have a look at the meteor showers coming up this week. Julie starting off in virginia, the crash towards the Franconia Springfield parkway blocking the second lane from the right, already a halfhour commute coming from dale city and a 17 mile stretch towards the capital beltway. Route one is your workaround. Trouble inbound in new carrollton. ,hey have all lanes blocked with the delays starting to form an the beltway heading out of new carrollton. That is the traffic watch and in 10 minutes we will take a look at the roads in the rails. Day 10 of california burning unchecked. The situation on the ground right now. Kidd oshea, following a unique photo shoot. Hey, kidd. Kidd you will never believe pregnant wife. What would you do if your [announcer] presenting the shark ionflex 2x, the freestanding, cordfree vacuum that can live anywhere because it has two rechargeable batteries. That means you can always be charging, even while youre cleaning. Welcome to hasslefree runtime with shark. Even while youre cleaning. You myour joints. Thing for your heart. Or your digestion. So why wouldnt you take something for the most important part of you. With an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is now the number one selling brain Health Supplement in drug stores nationwide. Prevagen. The name to remember. You are watching good morning washington, on your side. Complex breaking right now, the palestinian president says that palestinians will not accept any role for the United States in a Peace Process with israel from now on. This comes after President Trump made the controversial announcement last week recognizing jerusalem as they capital of israel. He says that the trump decision was a crime that threatens world peace. Speaking at a summit today, he says the International Community unanimously opposes the decision. In the President Trump middle of a twitter war with kristen jill a brand after she called for him to resign over Sexual Misconduct allegations. In a tweet the president called her a lightweight who would do anything for a campaign contribution. The Elizabeth Warren asking President Trump are you really trying to bully, intimidate, and slot shame hame senator gillibrand . Day 10 of the wildfire emergency in california as santa ana winds threaten flames. Firefighters have made some progress battling the thomas fire, but it is still threatening structures in its path. Firefighters are firefighters doing everything they can to attack the flames. 900 structures have now burned. At least seven of those our homes. Adrianna the First Responders who helped to save lives during the alexandria ballpark shooting are being honored for their bravery. Paying tribute to the six agents last night, they were at the field where a man started shooting during a congressional baseball practice back in june within minutes. We will be forever bonded to the men and women who russian like they do every day. Thank you for recognizing the work of our people. We are not expecting to be rewarded. But everyone did a great job and im clad to recognize it. The shooter was killed. The four people that he shot survived, including congressman Steve Scalise and to Capitol Police officers. Well, star wars,. Etting the Royal TreatmentPrinces William and harry walked the red carpet. Theres a rumor that the two of them appear in the film a stormtroopers. Critics of seen the film and it is getting a 93 percent rating on rotten tomatoes, the highest rating for any film in that series. It opens in theaters across the u. S. Tomorrow. Get me to go see star wars, it would be to put william and harry and it. Its the only way i will go see that movie. 6 18 on this workout wednesday. Right now kidd oshea is getting your day started out in tysons. Can believe someones husband did this. A story everyone will be talking about. Kidd im taking a break from spin class to have a little coffee here. This dad in boston did a photo shoot for his pregnant wife and you will never believe what he needed to pull it all off. Shoot dad bought photo was a surprise gift for a gender reveal party. He gave the fake maternity photos to his girlfriend in june before their first child was born. When im full and i press my stomach out it looks like im carrying. I kept laughing harder and roberts friend happens to be a photographer. Roberts got into the role, stopping a mcdonalds on the way. The entire way through he was just giving blue steel into the sunset. Killing me the entire time. It was really hard to take those photos. It was extremely difficult it was so ridiculous. He says he plans to show low in the pictures when hes older but he and his friends are just glad they could make their friends laugh. This is really great. Told People Magazine that his wife would be upset. She wasnt, she was just a bit confused at first. We will be heading back into spin class to work on those dad bodies after 6 30. Back to you guys. Boy, he could use a spin class. Autria adrianna special boat autria veronica hot cocoa . Autria thank you, greg. Adrianna cheers. Veronica put this one in the microwave. This isnt doing it on my hands. It you will need a nice, hot drink today. This will be one of those days where you can workout without working out. Shiver the calories off. You can burn calories by shivering. On a scale of one to 10 i would give it about six. Autria thats it . Veronica we have had days where we have had temperatures starting out in the single digits. We are not there. We have wind chills there, but not actual temperatures. A little bit of hope in the 10 day trend for the remainder of this work week that temperatures will stay below average. Next week will be much better, around 50 degrees or so. Coming up later in the hour i will show you what you can weekend as we get into the holiday. Winchester, d. C. , joint base baltimore, that comes with the temperatures, low as they are with the higher wins through your morning rush and her lunchtime hour, the wind blowing and gusting at 30 Miles Per Hour. Dropping to 20, it is not going to feel quite as brutal. 22 to 28 degrees is your windchill temperature with other showers coming our way tonight, tomorrow. Too many clouds tonight but your best viewing will come thursday. Look at your temperatures. 26 degrees between 10 p. M. And 2 a. M. In the morning. You may be able to see more than 100 per hour, which will be great for the night sky. For our night sky this a better weekend on saturday and sunday saturday and sunday. The next big chance comes up in 10 minutes. Julie right now we are looking at the roads and it is not a pretty picture. We have delays with major tieups right now. A crash before old keene mill road. Springfield for the accident, stay to the left in order to get by coming north round on interstate 95. Pushing everyone over to root one is the workaround. Montgomery county, the outer loop slowing past New Hampshire avenue on the right side of the highway. Starting to slow, the crash of 410 allowing traffic to squeeze by to the left. In the next 10 minutes z2nhzz zi0z y2nhzy yi0y you are watching good morning washington, on your side. Adrianna a Deadly School bus crash in iowa is raising serious safety concerns. In this mornings gma first look investigating this Deadly School bus fire in iowa. There were people inside unable to get out. The driver unable to escape. Her child and the bus driver on the bus. By the time the authorities arrived, nothing could save them. The driver and one student were unable to get off the bus. Bus fires are not rare. We have seen plenty caught on video. On average there is one every day, 379 per year. But usually those on board are able to escape. Leading to an average of about one deaths per year. This is a mystery, school buses are designed with safety in mind. Coming up at 7 a. M. We will have more on this tragedy. With your gma first look, kendis gibson. 1thats like a big yummy hug. . So hug it up hug more. Hug large. Hug medium . Hug that. Live it a hug life with 1. 99 medium or larger hot chocolate. America runs on dunkin. What if more of the came from Renewable Resources . What if the electric grid could detect, fix and even prevent Power Outages . What if our grid were less vulnerable and more secure . What if all these what ifs became a reality . Well, they are. At dominion energy, were completely transforming our power grid and the way we think of energy. To move from what if to whats next. Dominion energy. Now, good morning washington, on your side. Morning to you, washington. You may want to stay under the covers a bit longer this morning. Temperatures right now are still in the 25. Adrianna a winter blast that Veronica Johnson is tracking for us. Have been staying close to the heater, even inside the building. About not talking recordbreaking cold, but it is unseasonably cold. Looking back at the data from last year and it was only a couple of days, the 16th of december when we had a High Temperature of 30 degrees. For belfour, minersville, maryland, eight degrees, currently, for that windchill temperature. By mid to late warn mid to, 20 degrees, so you might want to hold onto that hot cup of coffee a little tighter this morning. High of 33, staying windy. We will track this cold air continuing to sweep through but by the weekend a warm front will take freezing. 44 down towards raleigh, North Carolina. Julie, it will be our coldest day in eight months and we will talk about the warmup and the weekend in 10 minutes. For thingsre waiting to cool off on the roads, believe it or not. A crash northbound i95 headed into springfield. Two leftent here has lanes getting by. Thinking about using root one is your workaround . That almost 12 mile stretch will cost you 30 minutes and travel time. Cutting the commute in half by sticking with group one. Inbound 50 in maryland, two left lanes get high. Slow from the beltway, leaving 495. A 20 minute trip leaving college park towards 270 with a wreck reported near New Hampshire the big story this morning will be the metro red line. Modifications to that Service Today through friday with more details. A feeling that folks are going to need more patience and layers out there today. Absolutely. This comes off the repairs from this past monday, its all about safety. They say they want to manage this problem and, ultimately, this weekend fix the issues they have got going on here. The problem is quite simple, its a communication cable used to transmit speed and location. Thats what needs to be repaired. Metro says that it is for decades old and dates back to the original construction of the system. ,rains around fort totten brooke land, limited to one at a time, meaning congestion and delays. Trains running every 10 minutes between shady grove and glenmont rather than everei with Additional Trains running between grosvenor and note nova gallaudet. Service every five minutes at that station rather than every four minutes. Buses replacing trains on a portion of the lines of that they can get in there and fix the issue. They are hoping to have it wrapped up in time for the monday morning rushhour. Suzanne kennedy, good morning washington. President trump is up and tweeting about that special election for the Alabama Senate seat. The commanderinchief writing the reason i originally endorsed Luther Strange and his numbers went up mightily is i said that roy moore would not be able to win the general election. I was right. Roy moore worked hard but the deck was stacked against him. One jones is leading him by point 5 . That is outside the margin for a recount, but Roy Moore Says hes not ready to concede. Autria is out this morning for this years edition of the National Film registry. Every year they add 25 films they feel need to be preserved because of their cultural or historical heritage. Dumbo, field of dreams the goonies, with its full cult following, and the christmas classic, die hard to code also alwayss a debate. Do you think that i hard is a Christmas Movie . We are getting a thumbsup from craig. Ive never seen it. Adrianna we are not talking. You are on probation for five minutes. [laughter] autria is it a Christmas Movie . Adrianna i guess it might be. Autria does it take place at christmas time . A christmaseres party. But you could watch it all year round. A christmas story, i w but die, i will watch anytime. Diehard, i will watch anytime. Let us know what you think. I will get onto watching that. I will add it to my seasonal list. 6 36, right now we have two hot tickets with your name on them. Max valentino, live on to her. They will be performing at the National Harbor in april. Caller number seven, you will go see them right now. 7035287334 is the number to call. Good luck. Adrianna dont go far, into a half minutes the story behind this pipe size pint sized right, stop what you are doing and look at this cutie patootie. She hasnt even had her first birthday, but she can snowboard. They worked on her balance on the soft living room carpet and they hit the slopes for the real thing. Veronica i love this story. Autria veronica that is the way to teacher kid. Ski, but at this age i wouldnt want to snowboard, it would be awkward. Good for her for learning young. Though she doesnt have far to fall. Veronica can she do the flip . Autria probably by four years old. I love it. Stormca our next bigger is going to bring us some rain. Today is all about the cold, which is why we have the big weather alert here for you. The coldest day in months. Froms temperatures move the teens to the lower 30s and it will still be breezy, with morning sunshine and afternoon cloud cover coming our way and if you 30s around the masondixon line. Clouds move in, 26 to overnight. If you are traveling, heres the chance of snow that we are pittsburgh, state college, central pennsylvania getting the snow and then a gets quiet on thursday and friday around here, including areas around new york city. We have a bigger change coming our way friday into the weekend with temperatures coming our way for the upcoming weekend with rain moving in late in the day during the afternoon hours. Hourbyhour for sunday, we will take a look at next weekend, julie, just a couple of days before christmas. It feels like it will be christmas once we arrive at our destination. Almost an hour and a half drive to travel from dale city to the beltway. The crash before the parkway now has traffic and getting by to the left, but there is still activity on the right side. Think about using rule one is your workaround. Time. 395 on the mainline, a crash at duke street locking the left lane. 50 at 410, stay to the left to get by. Back in 10 minutes and we will update the ride and 270. Autria still ahead here, the Great Holiday shipping rush. Hey, johnny. John thats right. Ive got one package, but we are still waiting for more at home. Are you still waiting . You could be seeing record delays, coming up. Right here on good morning washington. Autria a stunner in the south. Deep red alabama going blue you are watching good morning washington, on your side. This entire race has been about dignity and respect. Want to thank you for coming tonight and realize that when the boat is this close , it is not over. Autria breaking overnight, alabama going blue for the first time in decades. Adrianna doug jones beating out roy moore, who was facing sex assault allegations. Maggie rulli is live for us in alabama and this was really down to the wire . Maggie what a surprise last night. Just a month ago the thought of a democrat winning this senate seat would have seemed impossible, but thats exactly what happened last night. Who came out in support of jones . It was near Record Numbers for a special election. He got a ton of votes from young voters and an unlikely source, former lifelong republicans who said that for them this wasnt just democrat versus republican, it was about right versus wrong. All right, so, what does this loss mean for republicans . Sort of interesting, depends on which republican you are asking. Some see it as a slap in the it slap in the face of it to the rnc, to President Trump. Remember, many other republicans were publicly denouncing roy moore. Publicly saying that they thought he should step aside for met for them, many of them are quietly celebrating not having to work with him and others are publicly celebrating. Heard a tweet from jeff flake this morning saying thank you, alabama, for focusing on what was right and not just voting on party lines. Definitely an interesting response this morning from republicans. Adrianna thank you so much. More tweets. Did you see this one . President trump tweeting that the reason he originally endorsed loose Luther Strange is that i said that roy moore would not be able to win the general election and i was right. The russialling in probe, Rod Rosenstein is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee and the focus is on Text Messages. Republicans want to know more on reports from reports that one of the team members was removed after sending an antitrump text. Conservatives are claiming political bias in the investigation. 10 minutes until 7 00, police are on the lookout for people who started shooting outside a mcdonalds in germantown. Two people were shot when this happened on Gunners Branch road. Of thet went through one restaurants windows but fortunately no one was hurt. The reminder injuries and one person is now recovering after surgery. Unbelievable video that people cant stop talking about. Take a look at this bizarre traffic act up that happened last night. Police say that the man involved attacked another driver, and stripped naked. Once naked, he jumped on top of another passing vehicle before running away. Police kept up with him on Dulles Airport property and they arrested him. Ups says that tomorrow is the deadline for you to get your packages mailed on time if that is your chosen carrier. No matter the service, things could get delayed this year. John gonzalez is in northwest to explain why. Christmas,ys until have you received all of your packages . If you have not, you are definitely not alone. We are expecting a Record Number of packages to be shipped to this holiday season. Extended hours stand out. That one there, pack and ship guaranteed. Because tough guarantee experts are predicting a Record Numberf holiday season. One billion packages are being mailed for the First Time Ever and online sales are expected to. Op, get this, 100 billion Companies Like ups have put drivers on extra overtime to get people back on schedule. Bit extra fora express shipping. You could also click and collect, buy online and pick up at the store. Remember, you have until december 19. Thats the deadline retailers say to guarantee shipment delivery by christmas. The deadline is the earliest it has been nationwide in years. Reporting live in northwest washington, john gonzalez. And it is cold. Literally freezing cold. It is. A since march 15, today, our coldest day, but i like to giv cold for the remainder of the week, to, but as we get into christmas weekend i wanted to show you, there is your friday, christmas about less than two weeks away. Christmas weekend, it turns cold again. Going up to about 50 degrees, highs again in the 30s the 40s for christmas weekend with an early indication from stormwatch 7 on what you can expect to help plan your holiday. Temperatures right now in woodbridge, look at arlington, virginia. Wind chill readings in the single digits. Eight degrees is what it feels like when you combine the temperature with the wind. Through late morning, mid20s for a high. You can see around d. C. , we the afternoon hours. Thursday, friday, a little bit of wind. ,p and tracking a bit of rain my vote goes to saturday for going out. Staying dry saturday night. Three p. M. On sunday, snow in pennsylvania but that is it. The weather alert today, make sure you have your gloves when you head out the door. Monday got 50 degrees on. We could start out monday morning with a little bit of rain. Definitely need to layer up if you are stuck on the platform waiting for the train. Showing you whats new on the beltway, a 17 minute ride from oxon hill, headed towards the wilson bridge with the lanes open. Onin virginia, a crash springfield towards the shoulder. Still an hour and a half drive. Using route one as the workaround towards newington, thats an that will save you half of an hours worth of commuting. Northbound on route 1, 35 minute ride as the alternate. A crash reported near the exit for the third street tunnel and yes, metro work continues with modifications on the red line. Nd additional time needed fort totten and takoma, only one train on the track at a time. Additional time needed on the red line. Part of theavorite day where we check out the pet of the day. Idea,utie has the right cozying up in front of the fireplace. Wish i was there with you. Winky for sharing that photo with us. If you want your pet to be our pet of the day. Send it to us on our abc seven news app. All right, right now we have four tickets for the six flags holiday in the park. In for free. The number to call is 7035287334. Good luck to you. Right, thisl workout wednesday, kidd oshea is getting after it. Autria hes live at vortex in tysons up a sweat this morning. You guys want to see what would happen if i was teaching a class here . Everyone would leave, ok . Know all about it here. The class just ended a moment ago and everyone is in the cafe. But i wanted to show off the studio. Its cool, right . You can see the lights here. We also have these really cool and a performance style that is more competitive. Kidd , like others over cycling studios, you combine cycling and a cafe. Say hi to everybody. Real quickly, we are out here in the cafe, did you guys have fun . Here they are getting coffees and pastries. Workout e [inaudible] kidd where can they find you . On the corner right off the silver line. Awesome. I hope you guys will sign up for my class. Autria i would take your class. But i feel that there would be a lot of kesha and madonna. [laughter] your 60 second express. We have shown the country the way to be unified. They you for coming. President trump is up and tweeting. Right. The white house, denying a tweet from trump about Kristin Gillibrand as being a personal attack. Wrecks a sexist smear attempting to silence my voice. Another day of challenging commutes. I have come to expected at this point. Have you received all of your Christmas Gifts . There is a Record Number of packages being shipped and experts predict a Record Number of delays. , it willbreaking cold be unseasonable. Good morning, america. Breaking news, Democrat Doug Jones takes become beating roy moore in that high stakes senate race. The deep red state elects its first democrat in 25 years. Consequences for the nation. The people of alabama have spoken. Overnight moore refuses to concede. What the president is saying about the results. Russia investigation bombshell. The newly revealed Text Messages sent by that fbi agent calling then candidate trump, quote, an idiot. That agent now removed from the special counsels team. How will this affect the investigation . The bitter cold blast is here. Tens of millions waking