Require daily monitoring starting tomorrow. Today marks 21 days since kaci hickox last exposure to an ebola patient. She said she wants to be an advocate for Health Care Workers and will continue speaking out on their behalf. Right now crews are working to get part of Georgia Avenue back open in as penn hill. This is after a water main break along the ramp to connecticut avenue happened this morning. Stephen tschida joins us live for an update. This is what weve got going on here right now. You can see the repair crews busy and trying to get this span repaired. This is a vital link between Georgia Avenue and connecticut avenue. Very busy during the morning rush hour. You can see theyre trying to smooth out the pavement here. It has been taking all day to get this repaired. Now, what happened about 5 00 last night, the water main ruptured. The 10inch main, 48 years old, caused major problems. Cutoff water to dozens of homes, businesses, even schools. Now the wssc says that it is anxiously trying to get this repaired. Theyre working very hard. They do not expect to have traffic moving through here this evening during the rush. I guess it is unfortunate but there is not a whole heck of a lot they can do. Luckily they can get it fixed. Everybody is coming out of the city which they get home from work so hopefully it wont be too bad, but connecticut avenue is a big road here. Yeah. You can see behind me that still traffic if you can see through there, it is backing up traffic heading southbound trying to get on connecticut avenue. This is not the morning rush hour. It is going into the evening rush, but, still, traffic is backed up there. The best estimates wssc can give us as far as to when this might be open again and traffic moving here smoothly, theyre hoping by the morning rush hour. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc 7 news. Stephen, unfortunately, we could start to see more water main breaks as winters cold starts moving into the area. Arctic weather is already sweeping across parts of the United States right now. Montana, the dakotas, and minnesota are getting hit with snow and could even see as much as up to 10 inches by tonight. By the time the system pushes through, few states will escape the bitter winter weather. What a wakeup call that winter is on its way. As much as two feet of snow expected in the upper midwest, and it is already coming down. Its blanketing roads in minnesota, causing crashes and sending cars sliding. I saw one or two spinouts but i think everyone kind of got it. A little scary the first time because people are relearning how to drive on snow. Runways shut down, dozens of Flights Canceled at minneapolis st. Paul international airport. The big shift in weather all caused by this, the remnants of the powerful, 800milewide storm that battered alaska now pushing the jet stream south bringing an arctic blast of bitter cold. Temperatures are expected to plunge as much as 30 degrees below normal for much of the country. It is going to be a true taste of winter. And while this may be great news for little snow angels and for george, not everyone is so happy that the days of winter coats and shoveling snow are back already. Forecasters say the only parts of the country avoiding the big temperature change will be the southwest, hawaii, alaska, and south florida. Abc 7 news, marci gonzalez. We just put the snow shovels away. That system will bring the coldest air of the season to our area this week. You know what else itll bring . Some sleep. Hey, well have more mild weather before the cold weather arrives. When it comes, it is going to be cold but not the kind of cold theyre having in montana and the dakotas. Lets get you off to a good start on a monday afternoon, the time lapse from river bend golf and country club in great falls. A chilly morning but a Beautiful Day into the lower 60s. Tomorrow, highs in the upper 60s. 64 in washington now. 67 in fredericksburg. Frederick 66 degrees. 63 now in winchester. Itll be clear and chilly overnight. 38 to 46 degrees by morning. Light winds. So bundle up and dress the children accordingly. Well spend a lot of time this week looking at this cold air out west. These are the current temperatures. 17 in billings and rapid city. 21 minot. These are the air temperatures. Thats about 35, 38 degrees below average for them right now. And its only going to get colder as the blast heads south. Then the blast heads east toward our area. Well give you the timing exactly what to expect in just a few minutes. Okay, doug. See you then. Thank you. Two maryland teenagers accused of trying to steal Girl Scout Cookies are now facing charges. The incident happened saturday in severn. Police say a 12yearold and 13yearold girl were selling the cookies from a wagon. When the girls stepped away, two young men grabbed the wagon and took off in a car. A homeowner heard the girls scream, jumped in his car, and followed the suspects. 18yearold Gabriel Smith and a 17yearold boy are both charged with theft. The latest hit to the u. S. Postal service is actually an attack on some of the 800,000 employees. The agency says that some of their Social Security numbers might have been compromised in a cyber attack. Sabss Horace Holmes is live in northeast washington tonight with the latest on this developing story. Horace . Im here at the brentwood post office, the largest postal facility in all of the district. There are hundreds of people who work here. All of them are affected by this breach. Any information they would use on their personal computers has been compromised their personal information like their names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers. I talked to the head of the union that represents all the workers in the d. C. Area. She is very concerned about this. We dont know when it happened, so our information came in a month or so ago. Obviously concerned. Yeah, yeah. You look at the list its name, social, date of birth, your address, whatever. Hatever is in there. And this affects postal workers across the country. 800,000 people all the way up the chain maybe even to the post master general, himself. Coming up tonight at 5 00, well talk about what the Postal Service is doing and whether you and i, consumers, should be concerned about this. Reporting live in northeast, Horace Holmes, sabs 7 news. The federal government spends a couple billion dollars a year to protect Sensitive Information of its employees. Between 2009 and 2013 the number of breaches on gov and mils sites went from 27,000 to more than 46,000 according to the emergency readiness team. And the team responded to 228,700 Cyber Incidents last year. Thats more than double the number from 2009. Its not hacking but mismanagement that has been the problem for the department of Veterans Affairs in recent years. Kai jackson is at the live desk with more about a major reorganization for the agency. Kai . When youre active in serving the military the military is responsible for your medical care. Once youre out men and women look to the v. A. For that help. Today an announcement of a big overhaul at the agency following numerous complaints of poor service. Robert macdonald, the v. A. Secretary, says he will put a process in place to make it easier to receive care. One goal is to simplify the process because he says many patients dont know where to go. He says some changes wont be immediately visible like streamlining organizational structures across the country and they will design a website that creates one entry point into the system. This is important because he says this will eliminate multiple user names and passwords currently in place. He is also promising better customer service. We need to focus externally and care only about veteran outcomes, and put in place the Organization Structure we need to care for veterans. Robert mcdonald is new, a graduate of the United States military academy, west point, and served in the army for five years. Hes retired as chairman, president , and ceo of proctor and gamble before being appointed and confirmed v. A. Secretary july 30 of this year. Okay, kai jackson live for us in our newsroom. Thank you. Marylands governorelect is planning a tour to thank voters. Larry hogans thank you tour is set to begin tomorrow in st. Marys county. A Campaign Spokeswoman says more details will be released later today. Hogan was the republican and defeated Lieutenant GovernorAnthony Brown in last weeks election. The Montgomery County executive will sign legislation aimed at helping people previously convicted of crimes get a job. Ban the box delays the employers ability to find out about a job applicants criminal record. The criminal history wont be available now until the end of the first job interview. Lawmakers in virginia are back in work for a packed special session. Legislators are set to vote on a new Virginia Supreme Court justice. Only one candidate has been interviewed so far for that job. Lawmakers also plan to use the late session to make a final tweaking to the budget. The Republican Senate majority leader is introducing a bill to allow virginians to renew their healthcare plans that dont meet Affordable Care act standards. Coming up on abc 7 news at 4 00, scientists learn their fate after being sued for not giving a country a warning about the potential for earthquakes. A little later, a substitute teacher charged with sexually assaulting a student for the second time in a month. Parents are asking why they werent notified sooner. Plus the investigation into the plane crash that claimed the life of a prominent minister and his wife. You have actors and singers and hundreds of thousands of people all on the National Mall. Thats should make for smooth sailing on the roads and the marine corps is celebrating its 239th birthday today. U. S. Senator tim kaine attended a wreath laying ceremony at the marine corps war memorial in arlington to mark the anniversary. He spoke with abc 7s senior political reporter scott thuman after the event and well have more right here at 4 55 on that. Of course, tomorrow is veterans day. A new study by the financial website wallet hub names d. C. As the 14th best city in the country for veterans. The site looked at factors like the number of jobs for people with military skills, number of businesses owned by veterans, the Unemployment Rate for veterans, and the rate of wage growth. Lincoln, nebraska ranked number one followed by gilbert, arizona, and irvine, california. Chesapeake, virginia beach, norfolk, richmond, virginia all and 70th, 75th, 7th second. This honor flight land eat Reagan National airport today from new york carrying nearly 120 world war ii veterans. The entire flight crew was comprised of veterans as well. Very cool. Kai jackson will have more on that special flight coming up at 5 00 tonight. You may have heard about the concert for valor down on the National Mall playing for this veterans day. It is going to be a star studded affair. Its expected to draw hundreds of thousands of people and also mean some changes to metro service. Kennedy is gibson is live along the National Mall with all the details. If you have ever been on the National Mall for inauguration then you have a pretty good sense of what it will be like down here. The mall will be filled with hundreds of thousands of people. Today has been all about putting in some lastminute preparations, getting the barricades set, getting the stage set. In fact, as you zoom in right now you can probably hear someone doing a dress rehearsal. Just about an hour ago the singer jesti jay was on stage for dress rehearsal. This is for something called the concert for valor, an hbo event, a made for tv event, and it will make for a nightmare down in these parts come tomorrow. Plenty starting at 6 00 in the morning and also metro is readjusting its system all to make sure that everybody can get in and out of this area tomorrow. I am told, though, this is something that we are used to and prepared for. This is an event like d. C. Has seen before. Certainly folks should prepare for some inconveniences obviously, if youre traveling in d. C. , steer clear of the mall area. All right. So were back now live. Itll be i dont know if you can hear it but in the background right now you can hear them practicing the national anthem. It sounds pretty good. Im sure there will be a great concert tomorrow. Should point out a couple things about the concert. It is going to be on hbo and because it is onto honor veterans and pay tribute to them on the big day, itll be free for anybody who is watching on tv. Hbo is going to unscramble its service. Reporting live from National Mall, kendis gibson, abc 7 news. I didnt know you and jlo were so close. You guys have nicknames. Kgibb out there on the mall. Thank you. As kendis mentioned there will be a lot of road closures. We have maps of those closures and more information on metros plan at wjla. Com. Lets see how things are shaping up tonight for folks traveling in the area. Bob, everything looks green there. So far not such a bad rush hour on this monday. Just a lot of sunshine. Mondays tend to be a little lighter this time of the day. For now were doing all right. On 270 brief slowdowns up through Montgomery Village and germantown and the beltway, some volume delays. 95 southbound a minor accident near route 1 that should be out of the roadway. Further south heaviest. South of dale city past dumfries and the express lane merge. No incidents there. Some volume both ways here at river road especially on the inner loop out of tysons headed up for 270 and through bethesda and Silver Spring at 66 near 123. Into the bright sun. Again, probably heading out toward centreville. Thank you, bob. We dont have to worry about weather. For sure. For the commute home today. No. Weather wont be a problem. Later in the week could be inissue. Youve been hearing about the cold air and the arctic cold front. Because of our vast resources of the Weather Network and my failure to press the green button at the proper time, this is a weather bug site on our network in boulder, colorado. This was late this morning. Watch what happens during the late morning and afternoon, the arctic cold front. There it is. Wow. Temperatures plummet. They go from very comfortable temperatures in the 60s to this. Oh, no nchingts thats what the front did in boulder. And its repeated even more intensely at Higher Elevations in the continental u. S. To southern canada. Earlier, 77 in pueblo. Now 44. It was 72 in colorado springs. Now 36. No. In denver, at the 21 . Yeah. 67 earlier this afternoon. 21 now. The bottom dropping out. That is what an arctic cold front will do to you. We are not going to have numbers like that here. Well get cold but that is a relative term. The chill is incredible off to the north and west of our area. These temperatures in the teens and 20s, cold air will plunge to the south and eventually the east. 62 in chicago. While just a little to the north and west its 24 in map. These are temperature changes. Well highlight just to show how dramatic the change is going to happen here and then that dramatic change is going to come here to where we are. So weve had an 11degree warmer day today than yesterday in chicago. 12 degrees warmer in indianapolis. The other side of the equation, rapid city now 37 degrees colder than this time yesterday all because of this storm that is going to provide the momentum and energy to drag the cold front southeastward. The storm center lifts up to the northeast. Snow, wind, all kinds of wild stuff. Then the bitter blast comes pushing to the south and eventually to the east. But as the bitter blast moves, trans continentally, other factors will come in and warm up the air a bit. We are going to get colder. 60s today, upper 60s tomorrow. Well barely be into the 40s for highs on friday. Really colder but not the dramatic cold stuff. As you see the front move through the cold blast will lose some of its sting. It looks like wednesday well start to cool off, lower 60s and falling temperatures in the afternoon. Breezy conditions ch. Thursday and friday we see the coldest temperatures coming into our area. Heres the next seven days you can see. Well go down and down and down. And you get right cold here as we head into this upcoming weekend. Thats it. Thatll be good for the concert tomorrow evening. Thatll be good. Perfect day. Thank you. Well, an Italian Appeals Court has cleared seven people in a case that shook the scientific community. The seven defendants all prominent scientists or geological or disaster experts were convicted two years ago for failing to properly warn about an earthquake in italy. The 2009 quake killed 300 people. Scientists argued the convictions showed a complete misunderstanding of the Science Behind earthquakes. Coming up, president obama says the internet should be free and open to everyone. See how the markets react to that stance on Net Neutrality of his. A little later, why the internet isnt the only place you may have to protect your identity. But first, why todays soyuz 7 is on your side with an investigation into how long youre waiting at the dmv. Is the service designed to save you time wasting it . Anyone who has been to the demilitarize feels this pain. It the it is the number one thing you want to know when you go to the d. M. V. How long will i have to wait . Lets take a look here at the virginia d. M. V. Website. These customers are telling us theyre going to virginia d. M. V. Website first to check the wait time to pick the fastest locatio