Footage of the as you are circus i went to as a child. Remarkable were covering from what was a very gloomy saturday, topped with the rain you dont have the one of those days. Yep, day where the puppy looks out the door and goes, no, not going outside. Not going out there. I know i have to but im not doing it. I know. Live look outside. This still dark with the city lights in front of us, yes, we will see sunshine later on today. Good news. Nice and bright. Yesterday was the definition of cold rain or as cold as the rain can get before it becomes snow, we were hovering close to freezing but it stayed plain old rain in washington rain means ice, and while we did have issues with that on the Mason Dixon Line through last night. All re all the weather weather advisory weather weather advisory have been krochld Storm Tracker quieter. Picking up with flurries. Not sure if its making to the ground or enhanced by the radar beam, of course, let had he know, tweet me, Caitlin Roth Fox 5, if im
Avenue in southeast. ,here are several road closures as you can imagine. As part of the mlk national day of service, president obama and the first family will help out with the family shelter girlsd the obama old swingset, which you can see right there. If youre planning to be outside, you can see all the preps getting ready for the inauguration on friday. Live froman tell alexandria, belle haven country club, it is going to be steel gray skies. Moisture locked in place, but we do not expect any rain. Chilly temperatures in the 40s at the moment. Check out the numbers across the area. 36 in hagerstown. 42 degrees in fredericksburg. Temperatures probably will not go up all that much more. It will stay seasonable. The stray showern south of washington as it develops. A cool day, the wind is light. Bundle up and you will be just fine. But changes are coming. That will be coming with a warm front. Doppler radar shows showers south of harrisonburg, northeast of charlottesville. A sprinkle i
Security. Outside a pizza place here at third and massachusetts. Wise guy pizza there are embracing for the good and the bad of all of this. They are expecting 1,500 customers each day on friday, and saturday. That is twice their normal lunch and dinner. Besides the fact they have the business situation, they have employees trying to get to work because of all the road closures. They also have food deliveries. They have to have the food delivered in the areas around this neighborhood by wednesday. They dont have thousands of workers downtown because many offices are closed but they will have thousands of people at the festivities for the inaugural and the protest the next day. We have street closures and were trapped. We cant drive in the parking lot. Deliveries asked to get deliveries on wednesday. Richard so with all of those headaches how are the businesses going to cope . We will help answer that coming up at 6 00. Reporting live at richard reeve, abc7 news. Alison thank you. The p
Details for you when that happens. Reporting live in fairfax county, herndon, tom roussey, abc7 news. Jonathan first tonight, a woman in a wheelchair, beloved member of the community shot to death on the way to the grocery store. The shots rang out after 10 00 this morning on elvan street in southeast washington. A second person also shot. That person survived. Kevin lewis is joining us from the scene. What happened here . What are the circumstances surrounding the shooting . Kevin well, d. C. Police are only saying they believe there were multiple gunmen. 68yearold murder victim described to us as the mother hen of the neighborhood. The best eyewitness just may be that d. C. Police camera attached to the wooden lightbulb located directly across the roadway. Its very, very, very unacceptable. On a day when the communities across d. C. Were celebrating peace i dont think it is okay. I think the police and once again the community and also the Property Managers need to come together and
Because in the midst of this a big fire started. They had to put that out. A twoalarm suspect presumably started by the suspect but still under investigation. Reporting live in herndon, fairfax county, im tom roussey. Abc7 news. Jonathan thanks. We are now four days away from the inauguration of president evidence lecht trump. The historic swearing in is expected to bring hundreds of thousands of people to washington. Maureen the crowds will keep d. C. Businesses on their toes. Tonight, they are getting ready for a surge of customers. Abc7 has Team Coverage of the inauguration throughout the week. Jonathan Richard Reeve joins us live with the preparations happening now. There is a lot going on. Richard there is. They are talking about as many as a Million People visiting the area. It will have a huge impact. You can see the signage. There are a lot of things this week. I want to show you something unusual. Look at this. Concrete barriers on a Street Corner outside a insidewise guy pizz