Some schools to close this morning caught parents off guard especially in stafford and spotsylvania counties where the call came after many of the parents had left to go to work. Suzanne kennedy now picks up our Stormwatch Team coverage live from garrisonville. Suzanne . Important news this school is closed today. People want to know that it will be open on june 15th because the day has been added to the calendar after they had another closure here today. It initially started ouz the delay but then moved on to an all day closure. Inconveniencing many parents and forcing another day to be added in june. You can hear the rapid thaw taking place this morning in stafford county. But still, schools were closed and students were stuck at home for the sixth day this winter. I get bored. Theres not much to do when youre out of school. In this garrisonville neighborhood, kids were playing outside without jackets. Too cold to be without a jacket. Im not cold single parent and electrician david murray was already at work when he heard that instead of a twohour delay, school was closed. So he headed home losing another days pay. Definitely not good losing money and i dont get any paid time off or anything. So yeah, this does add up. Sandy has hired a service to watch her grandchildren. Shes from new england and shocked theyre home for another day. Connecticut youd have to wear your snow shoes and struggle through it to make it there. Its amazing. Its ridiculous. Stafford School Officials say the decision to delay and then call for a cancellation came after assessing and then reassessing road conditions. This video shows what it was like when crews were out making the call. We cannot make our decisions based on whether its going to be convenient for parents. We have to base it solely on whether we can safely get our students into the schools. It was the same situation just south of where i am right now in Spotsylvania County where initially it was a twohour delay and around 8 00 they decided to close schools all day. What it means as far as a calendar change theyll have to utilize their april 3rd makeup day. Reporting live tonight in garrisonville, virginia suzanne kennedy, abc 7 news. Ok, suzanne. Speaking of that calendar, todays closures put several School Systems in the red whether it comes to their snow days. Charles, montgomery prince georges counties are one day over and alexandria has no dates left to use. Theyre even right now. Loudoun county has five days left. Fairfax and Prince William counties each have four days. District has two. But in Arlington County high schools are out of days. Middle schools are one day over and Elementary Schools are two days over their budgets. You can stay connected to the forecast, folks, as it changes through wjla. Com. The wjla Facebook Page or the abc 7 news twitter feed and you can download our stormwatch app for your tablet or smartphone. Alison . Now to a developing story in falls church where police are investigating a lunch Time Bank Robbery and they think the people who robbed the Wells Fargo Branch in the 1,000 block of west broad street about 12 40 this afternoon are also behind seven other Bank Robberies in the region. Jennifer donelan live on the scene. Jennifer . This is like something out of a movie. This is a neighborhood behind me. People live there. Theres the bank. Many residents here were shocked when they learned that this is the serial bank robbers dubbed by the f. B. I. As the black hat bandits and they had struck so close to home. The crew is calculating, violent and efficient. Getting in out with the money in under a minute. Difficult to imagine what it must have been like for customers inside the Wells Fargo Branch in falls church this afternoon when they came face to face with these two men. Both with guns in their hands. Quite worrying really were just out for the dog and you never know what might happen if you stumbled on it when you were out walking. Another customer who was inside the bank at the time told abc 7 news off camera that the men waved the guns around and he said it was dangerous and scary. It was 12 42 p. M. And it was a witness outside that gets all the credit for alerting police. Police received a phone call from an individual who state they saw two unknown males go into the bank. The f. B. I. Explained the two men inside ordered everyone to the ground. We watched as they looked at footprints in the snow behind the bank. Would it be the clue they so desperately need . The f. B. I. Confirmed today the two men were not working alone. A spokesman said outside there was a third man waiting in a getaway car. They need witnesses to come forward if they saw a car speeding away on broad street. They need information about that car as she chase off the trio of serial robbers who have now hit eight banks in maryland and northern virginia. In one of those cases, they put a gun to a customers head. Scary stuff. Scary stuff. Hit a few other banks around here. So we wonder whether this was the same thing. Back here live you see these cardboard boxes, theyre there for a reason. Police put them over what we believe are footprints in the snow. Again, every single clue is going to be critical in trying to capture these serial robbers. F. B. I. Is telling people now that they know they have a getaway car and a third person is involved theyre asking people outside of these banks, if you see a car speeding away get the make get the model, get the color and get the license plate information. Reporting live im jennifer donelan, abc 7 news. We could have cut and pasted this story from last friday. Congress has until friday to pass a bill funding the department of Homeland Security after a deal was reached last friday for a week long extension. The president says it reflects the failed leadership of republicans in congress. The longest serving female senator is planning to retire. Barbara mikulski says shell leave office at the end of her term. She has two years left in her current term. She says she wants to spend that time focusing on the people she serves. I have thought long and hard about the next two years. And i had to ask myself this question, who am i campaigning for . Am i campaigning for me or am i campaigning for my constituents . I had to decide how i would spend my time fighting for my job or fighting for their jobs. Mikulski was first elected to the senate back in 1986. She became the first woman and the first marylander to chair the Senate Appropriations committee. Coming up at 6 00 tonight, Maryland Bureau chief brad bell looks at some of the people that could fill her seat. Alison . The troubled d. C. Fire department is getting a new chief. Former head of seattle washingtons department is taking the same job in washington, d. C. Stephen tschida joins us with more on the new chief and the challenges he faces here. Stephen . Alison the mayor made her announcement at this fire station today. Now, in selecting a new chief, she went outside the department outside the area all the way to the west coast. Today, im pleased to announce that leader gregory dean, the next fire chief for the district of columbia. Yes mayor Muriel Bowser touted her choice for fire chief as a man of accomplishment, action. She cited his 10 years leading seattles department. I am pleased to be here and excited about the challenges and look forward to working with the men and women of this department. Dean assumes the lead of a troubled department. Last year cedric mills died feet from a fire station where Emergency Medical Technicians failed to respond to his daughters cries for help. Just two months ago delays hampered the rescue of stranded passengers on board a smokefilled metro train. One woman died. Days ago, poor communication hampered cooperation with arlington fire during yet another incident on metro. Staffing resources and training is the easy key for success for this department as long as you address all three areas, i believe well be successful. Dean also will confront a fleet firefighters maintain is in desperate need of repair and replacement. Also, a department with hundreds of job openings. But he is optimistic he will resolve these issues. I understand that we have vehicle problems. I understand that you know that we have some e. M. S. Challenges. And the embattled fire chief left last year and the acting fire chief eugene jones was not at todays announcement. He wanted the job and he had a lot of support within the department. He must still win the approval of the city council. Sunday marked one year since the last anyone saw relicia rudd alive. Volunteers passed out flyers about the missing girl in different locations including in the d. C. General hospital shelter and kenilwood park. The mayor updated whats changed in the city since her disappearance. Brianne carter is live in northwest washington with the latest on that. Brianne . Well this hour police saying that theres no information they can release publicly. While there is a lot of work going on behind the scenes to find 8yearold relicia rudd. They say handing out these flyers as you mentioned will help lead to new information. We have continued to follow up on all leads and tips that come in. We will continue to do so. Police chief kathy lanier says her department is still working hard to find young 8yearold relicia rudd who went missing one year ago. She is still suspected missing. I mean obviously, our hope is that she is still alive. The then 8yearold little girl was last seen alive on this Surveillance Video taken march 1, 2014 from a northeast d. C. Hotel. Khalil tatum, the man who Police Believe kidnapped the child is seen with her in the video. Tatum worked at this janitor where rudds family was staying at the time. Her tatums body was found in the park but little relicia was nowhere to be found. Derek butler knows what its like to have a missing family member. His sister pamela was last seen in 2009. Until you know whats going on, time doesnt help anything. The founder of the childrens project, a group that relicia participated in before disappearing is still hoping for that closure. Today, some of the same volunteers who worked with relicia are back out handing out flyers to remind people shes still gone from her family. Theres got to be someone that knows something that can help break the case. Now, police are hoping that as well. Meanwhile, we do know the f. B. I. Offered a 25,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest. We also got an update from other officials here within the city about housing, specifically d. C. General there where relicia rudd was staying with her family at the time that she went missing. They say a number of changes for staffing and security have been made. Reporting live brianne carter, abc 7 news. Coming up on abc 7 news at 5 00 the investigation into a Deadly Police shooting that was all caught on camera. A little later, three incidents in less than 20 hours. What three people did to get arrested at the white house. But first,going for the record . How much snow new england needs to get tonight to make this winter one for the history books. Plus, the frigid temperatures are having an effect on area restaurants. See if you can figure out whats missing from this Seafood Market and the source behind it. That old song may have been about rainy days and mondays. Most of the mondays have been about the snow in new england and even more snow is expected in the next three days. Boston needs another 3. 7 inches of snow and that will break a 20year long snowfall record. Amazing all the cold and snow in new england this winter has made it really impossible for watermen to do their jobs and boats have been socked in in port and places like providence, rhode island. Thats starting to take a toll in our local menus now. Diane cho live with a look at the shellfish shortage. Hi diane. Good evening to both of you as well. Mussels are one of their top selling items here at Jesse Taylors seafood. Now they say theyve had empty boxes like these sitting in its place for days now. Here at the cafe in southeast d. C. , they go through about 2,000 pounds of mussels a week. On friday night, Mother Nature took its toll on thet when they ran out. Shocked. Thats a staple in our business. Causing a Ripple Effect for diners like peggy who is looking forward to it for lunch today. The food is still good but yeah, when you have something in your mind to have, you miss it. Glenn castin with pro fish in d. C. Says for 23 years hes been in the business he hasnt seen anything quite like it before where its lasted this long. The areas in Prince Edward island are frozen over and whats complicating more than that is the snow on top of the ice so theyre not able to get the rigs out to the farms themselves. He says they havent had clams in two weeks, the shells are bare. Long island sound has been closed all week massachusetts has been closed for a couple of weeks. Jesse taylors seafood at the wharf in d. C. Says they havent had mussels in at least eight days. Hoping the worst will soon be over. And those that we talked to today say theyre hoping to get another shipment of mussels in at some point this weekend and at the latest by friday in southeast d. C. Diane cho abc 7 news. This is one time when its good to be me because i cant eat shellfish. Sorry, folks. Lucky, lucky. I dont feel your pain. Exactly. Well, you know, a lot of different ramifications because of the weather all over the northeast and were expecting more its sort of quiet. Beginning of the winter started off no problems at all. It seems like the last month or so, weve been full speed ahead and not one but two issues this week. So lets move forward and into next week looks better i promise. Go out there and if you like looking at sunsets look at it now. You wont see it at least until thursday evening. The next time youll see the sunset. At that point, it will be well after 7 00 because of daylight savings time is next weekend, no, this weekend. Lets start over here. Wind chill factor at 37 degrees. Winds out of the northnorthwest at 16 miles an hour. Those winds will slowly fall as you move through the overnight. Shouldnt pose much of a problem at all. Be on the lookout for the black ice expected to form especially areas that saw a whole lot of melting earlier on today. Fredricksburg now looking at 46 degrees. Lets rewind and see if were at the core of that cold airway to the north and west of us. Upper michigan in the teens right now. Colder air will eventually make its way to our region. It will take another 12 to 18 hours or so. Temperatures will cool tomorrow but then see a brief warmup. When i say brief warmup im talking about one day. And then the transition after th snow Late Wednesday night into the day on thursday. Looking at wind chill factors out there, we could tolerate 37. At least were not dealing with extreme winds like we had a couple of weeks ago. Things are beginning to settle down. 25 degrees in town for an overnight low. Further north and west you go nighttime lows ranging from the upper teens to lower 20s with partly cloudy skies and that refreeze. Be on the lookout for that. No problems tonight. High pressure that moves on out of here our next weather maker well off to the south and west of us. This moves our way as we head through the day tomorrow. Thats why the National Weather service hasnt posted a Winter Weather advisory. It starts at 9 00 in the morning and depending on your location, the district and surrounding counties is set to expire at 10 00 tomorrow night. I suspect its going to come down before then. The reason why is warmer air will start working its way to the south. That will transition from the wintry mix to all rain. That happens after the rush hour commute tomorrow. Our storm threat index, not a problem for snow because theyre not expecting any. Sleet, maybe the biggest problem of all. Freezing rain a slight possibility and then theres the rain as you move into the late hours tomorrow. Heres that warm front. Thats going to move overhead late tomorrow night. Well see the warmer air move overhead. Theres the cold front that sweeps on through on thursday. That promises to bring us a little bit of measurable snow. Exactly how much its up in the air right now. Starting off as rain 1 00 tomorrow afternoon, theres the transition to a wintry mix ending with rain as we head through the overnight hours. And then more rain on the way for the day on wednesday. Highs tomorrow 37 degrees. Wintry mix, midday into the Late Afternoon and early evening hours. And then the extended outlook shows highs in the lower 50s on wednesday. But look at thursday a lot of question marks there. Could be looking at measurable snow once again with highs only around 30 degrees. Say it with a smile, it doesnt hurt so bad. Yeah. You think . You think . Keep telling yourself that. Parents are going to go crazy with all of these missed school days. Ok. Thank you well, as we just said Mother Nature just doesnt seem or want to seem to let up this winter. Thats right. Still ahead here a look at some steps you can take to make sure she doesnt do permanent damage to your car. First, Police Struggle with a man before shooting him right on the streets of los angeles. Well tell you what the department has to say about the investigation today. Now, heres a look at whats coming up tonight on abc in primetime. A dramatic video ending in gunfire starts with a scuffle between a homeless man and lapd officers as two officers handcuffed a woman in the foreground, the scuffle continues in the background. You can hear at one point a taser as police yell drop the gun. But its unclear if the suspect actually has a gun. Then as the officers pull away, the shooting starts. The man who people say went by the name of africa was pronounced dead at a local hospital. Anthony blackburn who is the person that recorded the video. Seen him take his last breath and everyone was hollering, you kill that man. The man is dead. Lapd chief charles b