Brine to try to keep the roads dry tomorrow. D. C. Is pretreating the roads. They plan to have about 200 plows on the streets by 5 00 a. M. And this is to clear anything that falls of course. The Virginia Department of transportation is pledging about 500 trucks in loudoun, fairfax, Prince William and arlington counties by 4 00 a. M. Picking up our Team Coverage on the approaching Winter Weather live from greensburg hi rich. Hi alison. You know this is kind of the chill before the storm. Its cold out here. No snow yet. But take a look over here. This is route 7 here off the dulles toll road. See those white stripes there . That is pretreating. So crews are out there getting ready to deal with this storm. Now, we have video from all the jurisdictions. What youll see here is salt in gaithersburg and theyve been very busy here. They have 650 trucks and loaders that are out there working. Theyre planning to be out very early in the morning. Some roadways like i270 have already been treated, as we said here. In northern virginia, they have 500 units and d. C. About 200 snow plows. Now, d. C. Is using brine to treat these roads so the road materials stick. Maryland is sticking with just a mixture of salt and water. Listen to these recipes. Salt mixed with water, mix it together. Pour it in the truck and spray it on the roads. Pretreat the roads. And after that it should keep it from freezing. So as far as the evening commute goes well probably just fine. But tomorrow morning will be a big challenge. They are telling us a lot of the heavy stuff will be coming down just about 8 00 in the morning in the midst of the morning rush. In leesburg Richard Reeves abc 7 news. Rich thank you very much. Our question of the day is asking how are you preparing for this weeks cold . Go to the wjla Facebook Page and let us know there. Were going to share a few of your answers a little bit later in this newscast. And a reminder here be sure to join abc 7 tomorrow morning starting really early. 4 00 a. M. Meteorologist jacqui and eileen will be leading our stormwatch coverage throughout the morning. Leon . Alison jury selection started today for the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. And as you might expect, security was tight at the courthouse for what could be the most closely watched terrorism trial in the nation since the Oklahoma City bombing. Chris live in boston with more of what happened in court today. Chris . Yeah thats right, leon and alison. 19 months after the marathon bombings here in boston and this trial is officially under way. Now, the defendant himself, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was present today in the courthouse while this jury Selection Process began. And all of a sudden more than 1100 potential jurors will have filled out questionnaires. New sketches from inside a boston federal courthouse show the long lines of potential jurors arriving on the first day of jury selection in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Over the next three days these men and women will fill out questionnaires and then a select few will return for direct questioning. All to narrow the estimated 1,200 candidates down to 12 jurors and six alternates. Tsarnaev is accused of teaming with his brother to detonate two bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon killing three people and injuring more than 260 others. He also faces charges for the death of an m. I. T. Police officer killed while dzhokhar and his older brother was on the run. His brother was killed during a shootout with police. Officials plead today that a plea deal was opposed by the justice department. Trial could take several months. When it begins Defense Attorneys are expected to characterize tsarnaev as an impressionable teenager who was manipulated by his older brother. What the prosecution is going to point out is how much independent action the younger brother had. How many things he did on his own. Now while he was in the Assembly Hall today filled with potential jurors tsarnaev did appear to smirk while sitting there slumped in his chair. He sort of stroked his beard at times. Now, the judge is going to be presiding over this trial stressed to this jury that it could take three to four months of their time of their commitment. And when all is said and done, if Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is found guilty this jury will have the significant duty of deciding whether or not he faces the Death Penalty. Leon alison . Thank you, chris. The man charged in the shooting of two Pennsylvania State troopers was in court today for a preliminary hearing. The judge will decide whether his case will go to county court or trial. The hearing began with prosecutors playing Surveillance Video of the attack that killed Corporal Brian Dixon and injured another trooper. Authorities say they planned that ambush and then led police on a 48day man hunt in the pocono mountains. Prosecutors are seeking the Death Penalty in the case. Virginias former governor is due back in a richmond courtroom tomorrow. Tomorrow is the day that former Virginia GovernorBob Mcdonnell will enter federal courts and find out his sentencing following his convictions in september. Now, his team is asking for leniency and thousands of hours of community service. But there is the possibility he could be facing 10 years or more in prison. Im Jeff Goldberg coming up at 5 00 live from richmond well get some insight as to what the governor could say tomorrow that may help or hurt his case. All right, thank you very much. Back here in d. C. The race for the districts ward eight council seat. Just got a bit more interesting today. Thats because Christopher Barry picked up the paperwork to run for his late fathers job. D. C. Bureau chief sam ford was at the Wilson Building when barry ended the speculation and joined the race. Sam . Actually that happened today, alison as you said 34yearold marion Christopher Barry has decided to take the plunge and to run for his fathers vacated because of his death, his late Fathers Council seat in a special april 28th election. Christopher barry came to the d. C. Board of election this afternoon to pick up his petitions. He must get 500 registered voters in ward eight to sign his petition so that he can get his name on the ballot. The deadline for signatures is january 28th. He said he was inspired by all the encouragement he received from voters after Marion Barrys death. Feeling the love and being embraced by the people are a turning point, i would say. Time expanding legacy of marion barry, of service, of helping the community, the poor, the unfortunate, the last the most the least and need someone to speak for their needs. Now, it will be a crowded field. He becomes the 24th candidate to sign up in ward eight to run for the vacated seat of marion barry and the man who may become his Campaign Chairman told me today that christopher is going to run under the name marion c. Barry. Reporting from john Wilson Building, sam ford abc 7 news. Crowded field indeed sam. Thank you very much. More to come on that of course. Meanwhile, also in d. C. Today with Muriel Bowsers first full weekday on the job and she joined the fight for Voting Rights on capitol hill. Well take a look at how she and Eleanor Holmes norton is standing up to restore the citys rights. Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to attend tonights wake for mario cuomo. The former new york governor died last week at the age of 82. Visitation began today at 1 00 in the afternoon. And then the wake begins at 7 00 p. M. Cuomos funeral will be held in new york tomorrow. Indonesias government is banning all airasia flights on the same route from indonesia to singapore as the one taken by flight 8501. That of course is the plane that crashed more than a week ago killing all 162 passengers and crew. As karen traverse reports, now divers are facing setbacks in their search for victims and plane wreckage. The u. S. S. Fort worth wrapped up a second day of searching for wreckage from airasia flight 8501. We can see everything using our computer. Its all in real time. So incredibly clear. We can see everything as small as a golf ball. But bad weather has prevented deep sea divers from getting clues from the five large sections of wreckage that indonesian Officials Say they detected. There are still no answers as to what happened to the jet which disappeared more than a week ago with 162 people on board. The pilot radioed that he wanted to turn and climb higher to avoid severe weather. But just minutes later, no response from the plane which then disappeared off radar. Indonesias Weather Service offered a controversial theory saying the weather likely caused the crash and that icing could have broken the engine on the plane because of cooling. But aviation experts say its too early to know for certain. Could have had something in total unprecedented, catastrophic failure of the flight controls. That makes it critical to find the black box recorders. So a couple of days after they pull it up we should have at least an indication of what we want wrong. The water where some of the debris has been found is only about 100 feet deep which has aviation experts concerned why investigators have not heard any pings or locator signals from those black boxes. Reporting from washington karen traverse, abc 7 news. Meanwhile, the national transportatioard wants to talk to the 7yearold girl who survived a plane crash that killed her family. Authorities say the twin engine plane took off from florida. It was headed to illinois before it crashed in kentucky friday night. Sailor gutzler walked barefoot with a broken wrist more than a while through the woods to get help. Little girl was amazingly composed for a 7yearold girl who had just been in a plane crash and just lost her parents. The girls parents, sister and cousin were all killed. The girls father who was an experienced pilot reported engine problems before the plane went down. Remaining wreckage was removed today. Our Suzanne Kennedy will have more details about this really incredible story coming up on abc 7 news at 5 00. Amazing, isnt it . It is incredible. Metro is repairs on more o its escalators here. Still ahead, which station will have some out of service for the next three years. Wow. A little later, were tracking the flu epidemic with a look at when the outbreak could peak. And look at the new congress before they get back to work tomorrow. 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Diana cho is there now live with the latest on the investigation. Diana . Well alison and leon we have confirmed within the last hour with firefighters that this fire was actually caused by a 7yearold experimenting with mat matches in a closet causing more than 500,000 in damages here behind me. Fire ripped across the apartment on the ground floor quickly but firefighters say they were able to contain it to that one unit where it started. But heavy smoke and water damage affected several other apartments and it happened just before 2 00 yesterday often at the morningside apartments. We talked to one woman who didnt want to be identified but had to be rescued from the balcony on the third floor. She says the smoke was so intense that when she opened her front door she realized that she wouldnt be able to make it down the stairwell. Everybody, the management there said hold on. Hold on. The firemen will come back. I was panicking and crying. I thought i couldnt get out from that building. And she was one of two people that suffered smoke inhalation. Were told a third person had minor burns. They were all treated and released. Everyone is doing ok. Now, the red cross says they are now assisting 28 people that were displaced in this fire yesterday. In alexandria diana cho abc 7 news. Today was the first big rush hour test for those new toll lanes along i95 in virginia. Heres a picture now of the pricing at 7 30 this morning when the lanes began. 3. 40 and 7. 25 to go all the way to old keen road in springfield. Thats a big difference from the 3. 05 and 5. 45 that we saw last monday. Traffic was a bit heavier today after the holiday week. Heading south, lanes are looking pretty clear. Get a check of things on that road and other area roads with bob in the wtop Traffic Center and that looks like a big mess there, bob . Yeah, leon on the inner loop of the beltway after the baltimorewashington parkway, all lanes had been stopped around the serious crash. Now they have the right shoulder getting by on the inner loop and the people involved in the accident theyve been taken to the hospital so it should be just a matter of time before they clean it up. Look and see how the backup looks. Its quite slow as you get around from college park. In fact starting around back by New Hampshire avenue. That delay starts on the inner loop trying to get beyond this crash on the parkway. Outer loop starts near route 50 getting by. Rubber necking delays. On the back route out of tysons 66 out of bright sunshine. Volume delays generally doing pretty well. Heading down and brief slowdowns. Ok bob. Thank you very much. And we have one more quick traffic note for you. Today, metro started replacing the escalators at the woodley park station. Those are the longest entrance escalators in the entire metro system. Metro says only two of the stations six escalators will be taken out of service at a time. However, the project is expected to wrap up in 2018. Yeah. 18 . 2018 . Thats not a typo . Unfortunately. It is 2015 now. Not 2014. Makes it a little easier. Wow, weve got some changes that are on the way and eileen was here earlier in the weekend talking about the potential for snow and jacqui was here all day. Here it is on our back doorstep. By this time tomorrow it will be completely gone. Its between now and then the bigger problems especially the rush hour commute come early tomorrow morning. Take a look at whats going on outside. You wouldnt think that we have snow, yes snow on the way looking at our live camera on top of our station. At least not right now but the clouds are going to quickly increase as we move through the later evening hours and into the overnight. Its 38 degrees at Reagan National airport. Wind chill factor not so bad out there right now but wait until you see whats on the way later on this week in terms of the colder temperatures. 33 at dulles. 30 in gaithersburg. 34 in frederick. Already in the upper 20s for hagerstown. 28 degrees in cumberland maryland that core of super cold air to the north and west of us. 2 degrees below zero in minneapolis. Win chill factors make it feel 20 degrees colder than that. This is the approaching colder air and that clipper thats eventually going to bring up the nasty weather late tonight and just in time for the Early Morning rush hour commute. This is where its located right now. This is getting ready to move into ohio and i see a fast moving system, its going to zip across the lower part i was going to say zip to the south and west of us. As we move through the daytime hours tomorrow and by tomorrow night, were going to look for gradual clearing. National Weather Service ahead of this storm has now posted a Winter Weather advisory. It starts early tomorrow morning. Extends until 1 00 in the afternoon and includes the district, all the counties shaded in purple. These are the areas likely to see the most snow. Especia