The other part of the area coming up in a few minutes. Okay. Thank you. Be the first to know if your child School Delays or closes tomorrow. Sign up on wjla. Com to get a text alert for the School District to your phone. One mistake cost a homecoming princess her life. Now a family is speaking out after the shocking death of the teenage daughter. 17yearold Alexia Springer died after attending a friends party. Police say the Centreville High School junior overdosed. Jennifer donelan spoke with the young girls family a short time ago. What happened . Jennifer they are devastated and they dont not want the fact of the loved ones death to overshadow her life. Jennifer powell started to get call at work. The paramedics were at her house. They need to come home. I kne happened. Jennifer her middle daughter, 17yearold alexia found dead in bedroom. It happened in the basement, in the bathroom. Parents were upstairs. Jennifer springer, the junior was a homecoming princess studying to be a dental hygienist. Monday evening she went to a Small Birthday Party at a friends home and they were told she was drinking and someone gave her a powder which she inhaled. She didnt know what she was taking. She wasnt that kind of girl. Jennifer springer came home and texted back and forth with her boyfriend. Went to sleep but never woke up. She had no idea. She was having fun with her friends. Family said they couldnt wait for the senior year. I cant imagine i cant touch her again. Some guy giving her drugs. The overdoses and the deaths. The police work to find out who gave the drugs to her. People need to be aware. Wake up from the terrible nightmare. It wont happen. Jennifer so much pain. The Fairfax CountyPolice Telling us they are asking students present at the birthday celebrate to step up and give them information they need in the case. Reporting live im jennifer donelan. Leon thank you. We dont know what drug is responsible for her death but heroin is becoming an epidemic in the area. General did the flow of the dangerous drug. Now its known as the heroin highway. To learn about that and the resources for battling addiction on the wjla. Com. Search heroin highway. Breaking news coming in now from manassas. Neighborhood cordoned off after two men opened fire on a passing vehicle. This is taking place near the georgetown shopping center. The schools now are locked down. Almost three hours now. The lockdown has been lifted. No report right now. We will keep you updated on the story and track it now on abc7. Alison one of the d. C. Most risk of being shut down. Brianne carter is live at the bridge. The bridge that is critical for crossing the potomac, can it be saved . Brianne you see how critical it is behind us here. If the lawmakers, the others can come up with 250 million to make repairs. Imagine this. The bridge is supposed to be solid. Like this. 11 inches down. But now the park service says that this is happening. Its starting to crumble. They say this is all happening despite 10 million in the emergency repairs that have been done since 2010. They call those emergency band aid repairs. Much more work still needs to be done here. So now, they are looking for the 250 million. Or they say they may have to close this bridge. That en people rely on every day. Abc7 got a firsthand look at the problems eight months ago when the engineers points out all the core rose on the support beam for bridge. Later this year the park service will spend 5 million to shore up the beams but only a temporary fix. Meanwhile, what is supposed to be a temporary fix for a railing after a driver crashed through that railing on the bridge in 2013. Still hasnt been permanently repaired. Tonight we got answers from the park service on why it is taking so long. We have been looking for the right materials to repair that section of the bridge. So it is in the original form. That has been the challenge. We have been working to procure the right substances to do that fix. Brianne the temporary barrier is still in place. Meanwhile, the park service says for the issues within the bridge they say it is still safe for drivers and pedestrians and bridge engineers are keeping a close eye on the bridge. Coming up here tonight at 6 00, hear from people who use it every day. What they think if it has to close. Reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. Leon thank you. Fairfax county police say a man in franconia was armed with a starters pistol when he fired shots at them. Officers responded to a call at a home in the 1600 block of the Larkspur Court in franconia yesterday. When they arrived there they say 19yearold fired at them and bare cadded himself inside the house. They are convinced to give up and the officers resorted to the nonlethal force when he refused to drop his gun. One was injured. He is now being held without bond. Alison turn to the race for the white house. It has transformed from democrats versus republicans to all the candidates against donald today the file gain the previous republican president ial nominee romney. Megan hughes has the biting words and the trump response ahead of the g. O. P. Debate. Trump is a phony and a fraud. The promises is as worth lest as degree from trump university. Trump responding mitt was a disaster as a candidate. He let us down. The two had a different relationship four years ago. Its my honor, real honor and privilege to endorse mitt romney. Romney is not endorsing one candidate he suggests they back the remaining candidates which if successful would lead to nomination fight at the g. O. P. Convention. The nomination has not been sewn up. These are the things that happen in a c House Speaker paul ryan had dinner with romney last weekend and said he was unaware of the content of todays speech. At the debate in detroit, trump will face the opponents and fox moderator megyn kelly. On the democratic side the investigation over the use of the classified emails haunts Hillary Clintons campaign. The clinton aide establish private server granted immunity by the f. B. I. While off the trail, Bernie Sanders in michigan hit her on jobs and trade. Was she right to support nafta . She was very, very wrong. Tonights debate stage for the first time there will be only four g. O. P. Candidates. Dr. Ben carson is expected to formally suspend the campaign tomorrow. Megan hughes, abc7 news, washington. A fight over the socalled right to die is over at maryland general assembly. At least for now. The Frederick County senator ron young withdrawn the measure. Just last month people passionately were filing for this bill that would alo doctors to prescribe fatal drug cocktail to terminally ill parents but it didnt have the vote to advance. The senator will reintroduce it next year. Leon renewed urgency on the legislation requiring people to report suspicious actions on child abuse. This is after the child Pornography Case involving a Prince Georges County teachers aide where some warnings were allegedly ignored. Maryland bureau chief brad bell is now live in glenarden. He has a look at the new push to actually do something about this. We have been live a lot. Reporting on the abuse alleged to occur in the swim center and at the glenarden city hall. The truth of the matter is these were the the truth of the matter is over the last several years crime against children in Prince Georges County are epidemic. A dozen children dying violently at the hands often cases of the people who knew them very well. That is the inspiration for the law discussed in the general assembly. It would require them to report abuse in 24 hours when they are aware of it. Its inspired by spoon when she killed her children. She told the hospital workers she was going to harm her children but she was let go and the police were not called. Now we have a case of Deonte Carraway in glenarden where it is alleged that teachers were told by students that abuse was going on and they did nothing about it. The new law would require teachers and the Health Providers to report abuse to police and try to put a stop to the terrible crimes against children. Testimony taken today by a house committee. We should tell you an attempt to pass this in the Legislature Last year failed. No idea how it will go this year. Alison thank you. Coming up ahead at 5 00, a battleground in the league wrangling following freddie grays deet. Leon plus, what life is like on earth after spending a year amongst the stars. When she called me she said i know you. I said diane, what do you mean . Two sister esare uniting after decades get the shock of a lifetime. Where they had spent months together before knowing they were related. In a matter of days tens of thousands of people will be blocking to r. F. K. Stadium but they will be met with the dirty mountains of snow with the trash in it. We made phone calls and what officials said one day a rider made a decision. The decision to ride on and save money. His motorcycle insurance to geico. Theres no shame in saving money. Ride on, ride proud. Geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. For a cup of coffee just because youre a woman. So why does congress think its ok that women get paid 20 less than a man for doing the same job . Ill fight for pay equity, to protect planned parenthood, choice for women, and expand paid and family leave. Now some politicians will belittle this as a womens agenda. More proof that we just need more women in congress. Im Kathleen Mathews and i approve this message. Alison one of the lasting images of the blizzard. Trucking in snow and building mountains out of it in the r. F. K. Stadium parking lot. It has been six weeks. Hard to believe. The mountains are still there. Leon how about that . Scott what does it mean heading to spring . Jeanette reyes is live with what she has found. Jeanette this looks like pile of dirt or sand but believe it or not it is mountains of snow covered in dirt. It is from the blizzard 2016. You can see we found a bunch of trash including a christmas tree. There are several here. Not only is this an eyesore but it is impacting two major events in a matter of days. This year recordbreaking blizzard is behind us along with the headaches of shoveling feet of sn mounds of snow wont budge. Im surprised there is as much there now as there. I figured we had a couple of warm days and i thought it would be gone. Jeanette the d. C. Department of public works tells us the lot is the designated area for the snow. Trucks came in dumping the snow and with it is the city trash. Leaving a problem even Mother Nature cant fix. We are used to having the parking lot full of snow. Its not usually as grummy and dirty as this. On monday d. C. United told fans the lot seven would be home for the first home match and te vents d. C. Is more than happy to help the city but it is forced to make lastminute changes to the two major events both happening next weekend. Causing problems for the earlier event in the earlier spring. Rock n roll marathon which has the here. Normally in that parking lot, parking lot seven. We are looking to relocate them to another part of the campus to accommodate them. 30,000 runners that descend on washington, d. C. To take part in that event. The popular shamrock festival that draws 15 to 25,000 people will also be relocated. After the snow is gone we have to repave the parking lot because of the debris and the other things inside the snow. Until the debris is removed some remain doubtful it will happen anytime soon. I had a difficult time with them getting my christmas tree. We will see if there is a cleanup crew and that ends up happening. Jeanette events d. C. Did tell us they were in talks with the city about removing all the snow. They couldnt get a straight answer. We made a few phone calls and a few minute ago we heard back there the department of public works who tell us they will send out three contractors to fret out the snow and hopefully it will melt. They will rake awa thenthey said they will get it ready to be repaved. As far as the time frame or timeline we couldnt get the answer either. Reporting live in southeast, im Jeanette Reyes for abc7 news. Scott pile new on top of the old. Doug there you go. Alison how much snow are we talking about . Doug in the big picture very little. The issue is the timing when it falls. The temperatures will be just above freezing so that will negate much of the effect on the major roadways. But grassy area, rooftop and the untreated places like the sidewalk could get slush overnight. For anything significant you have to get far south of washington and Northern Neck and middle pennsylvania, virginia. Get you started to show you what we know and what we expect. Start with three. A full, trifecta of the live shot on the weather bug network. At the rockville campus of the montgomery college. Temperature is 36 degrees. Skies are cloudy. No flakes reported there yet. I want to share other locations with your. Most no area. That is in frostburg. Its not a blizzard 2016 but we could hit a couple of inches. If you want to see big snow, go to winter green, virginia. Snowing heavily now. This isnt the snow guns. Mother nature at work. This is the beginning area. Well southwest of here in winter green where the leading edge of the snowfall on the way. So the Weather Service has us in a Winter Weather advisory all day and it starts at 10 00 tonight and runs through 10 00 in the morning with the winter storm warning issued over Northern Neck and the middle peninsula. The storm will pass south and west and southeast. We will be on the fringes of it. The temperatures are borderline. The upper 30s to 40 now. This isnt a prime setup to get a snowstorm in our area. The temperatures will get colder. But well wind up around 32 or 33 major roadways, a lot of roadways are pretreated. Roadway temperatures are warm. We are competent its not a major disruption. With that said, early tomorrow morning 4 30, 5 00, 6 00, getting ready for friday. There will be areas that are snowing. Visibility could be reduced due to the snow. To lar radar shows the area of the precipitation. Most north and west. Not reaching the ground. Some area south of the fredericksburg we think of the snow starting to reach the ground as the air is moist. Especially through later this evening and tonight. We think the air will be moist with the snowflakes moving in ahead of the storm system. Out of tennessee and kentucky. We stay on the colder side of it here as the low pressure area will take a track southeast to wind up off the coast of hatteras. It will become intense rapidly to quickly shut down the snow early tomorrow morning. So what we g 7 00 or 7 30 in the morning. As this intensifies there have been warnings given out for hurricaneforce winds and 30foot waves in the atlantic ocean. Hope the, you know, the companies, the crews, the cruise ships are paying attention to that. A huge storm over the atlantic. As big as that gets it will clear us out rapidly tomorrow afternoon and it will be behind us. Big thing people want to know how much do we get snow wise. Most of it will happen overnight by 7 00 or 8 00 in the morning. It will be well east. We will generally see a trace to two inches around the area. That is it. Heavier farther south where there is the winter tomorrow warning. Cooler weather to sunday. The big warmup begins next week. A couple of days around 72 tuesday or wednesday. Alison nice. I cant wait for that. That will be spring. Doug big changes. Scott welcome. Alison amazing. Wait until you hear this. A woman adopted as an only child got the shock of her life when she found her biological sister and knew. Diane began looking for her real family as she started her own. 30 years later she received a letter from the state identifying her long lost sister and her sister was her favorite teacher in college. My heart skipped a beat and i was excited because i could tell by her voice and bubbly personality we would hit it off. It touched my heart now im an aunt. I have never been an aunt and i want to know the girls. That meant the world to me. Alison isnt that unbelievable . So now karen and diane say they hope their story will inspire other adoptees to find their roots. Scott producer ryan telling us their husbands bought their rings from the same jeweler. Alison really . Scott coincidences and probably learn something new every day. Alison meant to find each other again. Alison a new battleground in the freddie gray case to tell you about today. The latest wrangling over an officers future that play a role against cases of all officers charged. Scott plus, back in the usa. The next mission for the american astronaut who spent almost a year in scott the man who spent more time in space than any other american is back in the u. S. Astronaut scott kelly arrived this morning a day after he ended the recordbreaking mission. Lauren lister reports on what is next for kelly as he reaches a critical point in an historic experiment. Reporter astronaut scott kelly back home in houston by way of kazakhstan and outer space. Its an unbelievable feeling to be back on planet earth, back in our great country. Reporter he spent 340 days aboard the space station, the First American to spend so much time in the cosmos. Now he is enjoying firsts since returning, the first hug with his children and girlfriend. I missed everyone very much. Reporter tweeting the first call from the president , the first sunset in norway, different view from the last in orbit. First flowers. Contrasted from the ones he raised in space. First plunge reporter after a year admiring bodies of water from afar. In that time he completed 5,500 orbit, 144 million miles equal to the moon and back 300 times. The mission is to test human endurance. Key for potential future travel to mars. Go to mars one day it will make things better on earth. I am happy to be part of that. Scott will be compared to his identical twin mark. The next year is undergoing medical testing and providing data on earth. But first i brought you beer and apple pie. Nothing is more american than that. On twitter, president obama told kelly he hopes gravity isnt a drag. Even if it is, nasa saying the spine stretches in space so he likely came back two inches taller. Scott still ahead at 5 00, curing cancer with a weed. The promising new treatment using what