He is out on bond but it is likely the feds will step in and take over the bizarre capes. After a week of delays the white house rolled out a major revision to President Trumps travel ban. We have new developments. Jonathan we have been waiting for a week and a half. It will take effect in ten days and it makes changes to the original plan blocked in the federal court. They remove iraq from the seven banned countries so now its just six. He is confident that the order will withstand any legal challenge. He vowed to take the fight of the first travel ban to the Supreme Court. But decided to revoke the ordinary and today signed the new executive order that takes effect march 16. No system i American People can have the high confidence we are identifying ways to improve the vetting process. Thus keep the terrorists from entering the country. Jonathan whats new . Syrian refugees are no longer singled out. It no longer makes exception for religious minorities and it does not impact dual cit
Authorities are also now offering a reward of up to 10,000. Live in rockville, kevin lewis. Alison thank you. We are following a developing story out of hagerstown now where 33yearold devon ethan arrested for allegedly beating his son so badly he sent him to the hospital. They say when the boy couldnt pronounce the number four. He left him with bruises and hair missing from his scalp. He sein jail facing child abuse and assault charges. Covering metro tonight. The Committee Vote signals a rate hike is coming for the metro riders. Brianne carter has more on how much more you will be paying and when. Brianne next time you take metrorail you could pay 10 to 25 cents more on the fy13 presented a herculean challenge for metro. Brianne after months of debate and revised budget it looks like the metro riders will be paying more for less. The process of arriving where we are today is to try to mitigate the pain in ways that are sensible for the Transit Agency to operate. Brianne today they pre
Telework. Larry we have a complete list of School Closures at the bottom of your screen and on our website, wjla. Com. Autria 6 00 straight up, lets can chew over to our two meteorologists who have been working hard for you since, like, midnight, you guys . Is that when you book up . Veronica pretty much, making our way down the icy streets. Just so much refreeze. To of the things and want take a look at today is how many hours each day our temperatures will be above freezing. That really is going to be so critical, that and the higher sun angle and how much melting we will see out of this as we approach friday, which by the way autria is the luck of the irish on our side or not . Eileen lets get people started with where this storm is. We have a coastal southeastern virginia. Moving going to be further towards the north. Some of you waking up, looking out your window in saying that you guys said that there would be more snow. As we alluded to yesterday the rain snow line pushed farthe
Way out. The storm did all kinds of things. Number one, much more moisture. We knew it would bring warmth northin and sleet in but of washington had more of an ice storm than anything else. Reciprocation moving out and in its backlash there will be snow showers. No significant accumulation. There are millions of kids in new york and along the coast that are disappointed that we did not get much snow because the storm system brought in so much warm air from the Atlantic Ocean they had to go inland to find the heavy snow. Over parts of pennsylvania and new york state, they are getting crushed with heavy snow. It is just the coastal areas. This often happens in march because the atmosphere is different in march than january and february. For a snow lovers point of interest, if t offshore we would all be in a big dig out right now. And weather is the problem what is going to happen with roads and refreezing, josh knight is on the American Legion bridge. Any ice there . Josh things are look
She feels horrible. Kevin lewis, abc7 news. Larry thank you. We are seven hours away from the revised version of President Trumps travel ban taking effect. Today three cases in three courtrooms challenged the measure before it began. One of them is in greenbelt. Maryland bureau chief brad bell is there live for us now with more. Brad . Brad yeah, so the passionate arguments were made this morning and now it is up to a judge to decide if president of the United States had the authority to act as he did. Activists chanted and cheered outside the federal courthouse in greenbelt today. A small and brief rally in support of the lawyers challenging President Trumps revisedded executive order on travel and immigration. We believe that President Trumps action put us all at risk. Brad the legal argument made by both sides in the 90minute hearing were just one. Lawyers for a individuals and Immigration Rights groups say the white house is ordering an illegal muslim ban. This isnt rocket science.