Luckily, though temperatures have climbed above the freezing mark right now. Temperatures are mostly in the mid 30s across the metro area right now. 36 at National Airport, 34 leesburg and manassas still 32 in gaithersburg. So at or just above the freezing mark still plenty of rain southern Prince Georges County down into Southern Maryland, these raindrops are going northeast bound. This is going continue over the next couple hours. The overall trend is a drier one as we get into later this morning and late they are afternoon as well. If youre going to be outside, slushy and milder an excellent opportunity to clear things up. That snow thats on the driveway now because of the rain that fin ushed it off is extremely heavy and wet. Take your time shoveling it everybody. Rain ending early, clearing out later this afternoon and this will be the mildest day of the week with temperatures in the 40s, back into the deep freeze we go tomorrow. Take your time this morning if youre heading somewh
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Wossen assaye at this exact moment . We hope to get some answers from the u. S. Justice department. Excuse me the u. S. Marshals service in the next 15 to 20 minutes. Well bring the latest information for you coming up in an hour 59 clock 00. Jeff goldberg abc 7 news. Alison the university of virginia released a new interim policy on Sexual Misconduct and gender based violence and its effective immediately. It was prompted by a federal investigation. The policy includes detailed descriptions of reporting procedures and sexual assaults and misconduct education at the university. And it also requires complaints be examined by the universitys fulltime investigator or an external investigator with relevant experience. Leon well d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has her way, the city wont be putting the brakes on its planned streetcar project. Alison thats right. During last nights state of the district address, she promised to finish that streetcar line all along eighth street and actually to even
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And the dow jones plunging nearly 280 points. The biggest one day drop across the globe. It started in china with a regulatory move and spread to europe on a new round of greek worries and found its way to the u. S. By the close the Dow Jones Industrial average sank to 17,826 and the s p 500 gave back 24 and it was a losing week for all of the averages. Bob sonny looks at the issues settling the market. A crackdown by the chinese and a greek exit from the euro put pressure on stocks today. It was a selloff on heavier than normal volume. All of the major indices were down as well as all of the s p 500. And the stocks in the internet and the solar space were down more. Everything down 2 to 3 and the biggest moves in greece russia italy and portugal. Everything is up doubledigits as the European Bank has sought to prop up the economy. T of the profit is locked up. A lot of the traders decided to lighten up. After the close in china, there was a crackdown in overthecounter stocks. This is