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Make America Great again trump hat. As you can tell he is still physically injured and emotionally shattered. Wednesday, about 7 00 at night as the man walked his dog down the stretch of vermont avenue. Suddenly four men came at him, called him snowflake and said this is what a Trump America looks like. He says they then used a homophobic slur and began pelting him repeatedly with objects. No, im not okay. I just really, i need time to deal with all of this. Stephen we caught up with the victim outside of his home today. He does not want his face nor his injuries which are still very visible shown on camera. He talked about the attack and his road to recovery. Its not easy to think about. I cant remember everything. Stephen meanwhile the attack in an early evening on a wellt troubled tonight. Horror. Great sadness that Something Like this would happen among our friends. Stephen d. C. Police are investigating this as a hate crime because the man apparently was attacked because of his sexuality. We have also learned that they werent content only to injure him. One of them also went after his dog. A senior dog pepper. They say she was punched by one of the suspects. She and the victim here, the other victim, the human victim are recovering tonight. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Larry thank you for that. Find out about crime in your neighborhood with the alert i. D. Maps at wjla. Com. Alison well, we turn to the weather now and 7 is on storm watch. Wow just listen to that. A blizzard slamming into new england and part of new york. Hundreds of schools canceled classes today before the storm hit the full stride. People are warned to stay off the roads but not everyone is listening. What happened here . Were you leaving . We were leaving and we wanted him turned around because we wanted him on the sidewalk. He went to turn around and the hill caught him and down he came. Alison wow as much as a foot and a half of snow could fall in part of the northeast. So even though most of our area really skirted the snow. People trying to travel are still feeling some of the impacts. Our Northern Virginia chief Jeff Goldberg live at Reagan National with this side of the story. How does it look there, jeff . Jeff it has gotten better in the day. A little bit of the delay but mostly on time. Here is where you run into problem. New york airports, laguardia, j. F. K. , newark and boston where the wording gets ugly. Talk to just a few travelers at Reagan National airports my original flight was canceled. Jeff you will find most are finding themselves going nowhere fast. I was supposed to leave last night. Then again earl now 10 00 p. M. Tonight. I jeff he just wants to get home to boston after a business trip in florida. But thanks to the storm he is stuck in d. C. Walking around to find starbucks and catch up on email. Jeff cancellation and delays outnumber ontime flights today at d. C. A. , mostly in and out of new york. The massive storm led to the cancellation of more than 3,500 flights nationwide. Include manage of the south and west as planes were stuck in the northeast. Why get upset . They cant do anything. Its the weather. Planes are not where they are supposed to be. Jeff at Union Station trains and buses leaving on time. Its the arrivals from the northeast that are dealing with delays. Cheryl from bethesda made it to the city with her daughter and sisterinlaw. We got in and it was a great show and got out in the nick of time. Jeff for greyhound riders getting out of manhattan was tough but smooth after that. Is there supposed to be back at supposed to be back at 1 00. So maybe 30 minutes. Jeff not too bad . Nah. Jeff its good to be back. A look at the flight aware misery map in the northeast. Boston looks 100 miserable when it comes to Flight Cancellations and delays. In d. C. Its only 25 miserable. That is not too bad. Out here the weather feels miserable. Its cold and certainly windy. Doug hill, how long is this going to last . Doug it looks like the gusty winds will continue a couple more hours. We have snow squalls around the area. We had wind gust of 40 Miles Per Hour in frederick. 38 Miles Per Hour at leesburg. 33mileperhour gust in annapolis. You combine it with the temperatures holding in the now we have been watching the past couple of hours in the stormwatch7 weather center, the snow squalls coming out of the northwest. They have been heavy. More than a half inch fell at washington, washington dulls with a snowshower moving through. Crossing over 95 and potomac to charles county. So a feel of winter. The Bigger Picture shows there are a few more coming but generally after sunset we think the number and intensity of the snowshowers diminish and skies will clear later tonight. It will be cold. Upper teens to mid20s by morning. The bus stop forecast should be mostly sunny early on. 25 for temperature in the city. Around 7 00. 32 at recess time. Dismissal, 38 with clouds in. And a big warmup this weekend, larry. We will talk about it shortly. Larry well talk to you soon. More progress in the president s first 100 days today with the swearing in of Jeff Sessions as the nations attorney general. He says he will defend the president s travel ban. You said something that i believe and i think the American People believe that we need a l immigration. One that serves the interest of the people of the united states. That is not wrong. That is not immoral. That is not indecent. Larry a federal Appeals Court is expected to rule any day on whether the president s order aimed at extreme vetting for people at seven different nations is constitutional. Today alabama governor named that state current attorney general Luther Strange to replace sessions in the u. S. Senate. Alison President Trump today also met with the chief executives from several major airlines. They discussed Airport Infrastructure and updating the nations air Traffic Control system. Larry the senate is due to vote on the president s pick to Head Department of health and Human Services today but so far they are still debating congressman tom price of georgia nomination. Alison a bill to cut funding for planned parenthood in virginia is gaining support. A Senate Committee voted to send the bill to the full chamber today. I would allow title x funding that goes to abortion providers to be redirected other health clinics. It has already passed the house of delegates. A similar bill was vetoed by governor mcauliffe last year and will likely face the same fate this year. Larry covering metro tonight. After weeks of a break, safetrack returns this weekend. This time its blue line riders who will be feeling the pain with no trains between rosslyn and the pentagon. Our transportation reporter Brianne Carter takes a look at the impact of the safety push so far. Brianne the around the clock commuting disruptions. A reemerging for metro riders. Starting saturday, the tracks will shut down between rosslyn and pentagon station. Its an 18day closure. Brianne also during the surge, the Arlington Cemetery station will be closed. For visitors who still want to head there, free shuttle buses will replace trains. There will be no blue line throughout the system. Yellow plus trains will run all day. Blue line riders in maryland are urged to use the silver line ins prevented by doing this work. But the reality is if we didnt do it wed be in a much worse place. Brianne the latest surge comes as safetrack appears to be causing more people than projected to choose another way to get around town. Because of our declining ridership, we will have fiscal pressure on the 2017 budget, the budget were in now. Brianne today josh whedon indicated the revenue for the end of the year may not meet the 839 million expected through fares and parking. The projections were done over 18 months ago now. Brianne wiedefeld is expected to detail the issues at a Board Meeting in two weeks but with many costsaving measures already underway the question tonight remains. What else will be done to make up the gap . It is tough. It gets tougher and tougher as the pantry gets bare. We will do what we have to do. Brianne in arlington, b alison stay one step ahead of the safetrack with text alerts from abc7. You can sign up at wjla. Com. Larry coming up at 5 00 [coughing] the sounds of february. C. D. C. Says the flu is widespread in d. C. , maryland and virginia now. Find out what else could be making you or your friends sick. The National Zoos bobcat making headlines again. This Time One Group is hoping she will be set free. Im amy aubert. I will tell you what is behind the free ollie campaign next. Alison later, agreeing to disagree. A look at the battle between the president and some of his nominees. Larry but first, one day after this protest in the district, what happens today with the disputed pipeline through part of north dakota . Alison this is a live look now at the beltway. East of the mixing bowl. You know the snow squalls have been coming through the area. Storm watch 7 chief meteorologist doug hill was talking ab fo creating a cleaner environment by using cleaner Energy Sources like solar, wind and natural gas. Weve reduced Carbon Emissions by nearly 25 , which is the equivalent of taking close to two million cars off the road. Cleaner air and cleaner water. Its good for all of us. Dominion. Depend on us for more than energy. Larry we have breaking news. The Associated Press is reporting an Appeals Court on President Trumps travel ban will be filed close of business day in california. So by 8 00 eastern time tonight. Well be following that. Be sure to stay with abc7 news and wjla. Com for updates only that. Alison . Alison all right, larry. New developments today after months of protest about the Dakota Access pipeline. The Company Building the pipeline started work again this morning. This was two days after the army gave permission for the construction to repsalm. Police say they are on heightened alert there in case more protesters show up to try to stop the work. Take a look at this. This is the route for the entire Dakota Access pipeline. Its 172 miles long between north dakota to illinois. But this right here is the portion everybody has been protesting. This is in dispute. It runs under a lake right near the Standing Rock sioux reservation. Critics say its a threat to the tribe water supply. Supporters point out the pipeline crosses hund waterways. Larry . Larry now Dakota Access may be the most wellknown pipeline in the u. S. However, its not the only one. Sow in Company Transcanada wants to build a gas pipeline from the pennsylvania border to morgan downtown, morgan county. It would go west of hancock, maryland. You can see it on the map. It would end at lovers leap. That is the proposed pipeline there. A public hearing is held tonight in hancock. Members of the tohir mack river keeper plan to be there to protest. Alison the rock creek observatory is putting ollie, the bobcat, back in the news. A week after ollie escaped from the national zoo a group wants to see her roam free again. Amy aubert is here to explain this one. Amy . Amy they have a hashtag, a website and the group is now se you can support the cause, too, which the free ollie site says is all about freedom. You will remember ollie, the 25pound bobcat escaped from her enclosure at the national zoo a week and a half ago. She was later found on the zoos property. This group says they were cheering her escape saying on the site they were reminded that we can all still come together for a common cause and they support the agenda of togetherness. One dollar from each of the shirts will be donated to the rock creek conservancy. Amy aubert, abc7 news. Larry okay. Thanks so much. Look outside able look at this. At the wilson bridge. Live look. Its not supposed to be black and white, doug hill. Doug that is the traffic camera. It is. Oh, all right. Doug literally five minutes ago there was blue skies there. This is how fast the now is squalls are coming through. The winds snow squalls are coming through. They are coming in quick. I want to take that t computer where we have the weather bug camera on the property of national harbor. Look at that. Five minutes ago you had total visibility to arlington and Fairfax County now. Barely anything because of the snow squall moving in. We can pinpoint it on doppler radar. The area blue south of the city across the wilson bridge and snow squall is moving southeast at a pretty good clip. A little bit earlier this afternoon we picked up a detection of a couple of lightning strikes with a cell over southern fairfax. More active weather this morning in the backlash of that big blizzard than anything we had locally this morning when it was just gathering strength. That was the deal. The cold air came in slower than we thought. The system moved through more quickly and hasnt intensified. We have very little this morning. Going from bright sunshine to clouds and snow. Then back to sunshine. Generally, though, tonight, in the next few hours the snowshowers will diminish and will wind up having partly cloudy to clear skies. So fast are the gusty winds. Those are not only going to bring in colder air, driving the temperatures even more below freezing than they are now. Its 31 at Reagan National. 27 at winchester. With the clear skies and the winds the falling temperatures it will be one of the coldest nights we have had in a while. Especially true tomorrow morning. Wake up to air temperatures. 21 in hancock. 20 in berkeley springs. Martinsburg is 20. Leesburg is 23. Cold morning with fairly cold skies. Enough of a breeze to make it feel more uncomfortable. 21 in college park. 2 is in reston. 18 in damascus. 23 in clinton. 23 on the Chesapeake Bay in anne arundel county. How about the wind chills . Its not as windy in the morning as now but windy enough to feel like 13 around joint base andrews in the morning. 15 in leesburg. 13 in frederick. Only 9 degrees on the wind chill in hagerstown. A cold start. Well make a r that much. Upper 30 to 40. Plenty of sunshine in the morning but then clouds roll in, in the afternoon. It will remain cold. Unseasonably cold. Now we have a day that unseasonably cold. Average high is 46. We only hit 40. But wait until the weekend. Big changes coming. Look at saturday. Up to 59 degrees. Dramatic change. But yesterday we were 74. Today we have the snow and the high winds. 59 on saturday with sunshine. Clouds roll in later saturday. Sunday is a changeable day. Warm front will try to work through. Not sure how far in the 60s we will get. Took the dart in the dartboard and tossed it and we came at 64. There could be a shower north of the city. One could extend early monday morning but after that clearing it will drop to 51. Valentines day is 51. Then we can relax because next week is quiet, dry and fairly sunny and for this time of february. Alison when you started we showed the live pickture of wilson bridge. Take a look. Doug done. People have low angle sun in their eyes in a minute heading west. Crazy winter. Alison the queen of soul is doing soul searching. Larry we will explain what makes this little boy happy enough to dance like this. That is also coming up. Cheryl im Cheryl Conner at patients first in beltsville where doctors are seeing more cases of the cold and flu. Coming up we will tell you if the flu about flu vaccine is effective and if the upanddown temperatures play a role. Larry but first, your t. G. I. T. Lineup is back tonight alison now Jummy Olabanji has a look at what is coming up on good morning washington. Tomorrow on good morning washington, safetrack surge 12 this weekend. Where you expect total me i sit down with alec baldwin. The size of his paycheck to play donald trump on s. N. L. May surprise you. And stay with us for weather and traffic every ten minutes tomorrow morning at 4 24 a. M. On good morning washington. Larry this is the height of if your office is like ours youre probably seeing this going on. All over the place. Cheryl conner has a look at how to tell if its cold, flu or allergies. Cheryl the flu vaccine is still availability at patients first in beltsville. This year it is making an impact. The flu cases increased this week. Most people did not have the shot but some did have the shot and still had the flu symptoms. Although they were less effected by the flu than those who did not have the shot. Cheryl this man got the flu shot but still had what he thought was the flu or a cold. Runny nose, headache, slept a lot. Cheryl it was just yesterday we were talking around the short sleeves. Now today we are bundled up again in winter coats answer scarves coats and scarf ofs. Doctors say the upanddown temperatures make a difference. If you are not dressed properly you are more like to get sick. Cheryl the forecast calls for temperatures to springtime again this weekend. To avoid getting sick dont get too comfortable without your coat. She has also seen patients complain about allergies. There is a shift in temperature my sinuses act up. Cheryl wash your hands often and avoid touching your face. Its not new advice but worth repeating when people around you are grabbing for tissues. In beltsville, Cheryl Conner, abc7 news. Were going to keep on fighting. Alison still ahead at abc7 news at 5 00 a familys fight after a mother of two is deported as part of the president s shift in policy. As the president assembles his team on the hill and at the court, we examine what happens if you are part of the team. Well show you. Coming up. Larry later the fight to get back millions of dollars in the Silver Spring Transit Center could come tag fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Which means we can deliver ual uploads and downloads. Welcome to 8 and a half maple street. Ithalf a house. And even though it only has half a kitchen, half the closet space and a half bath, its a full house to the wilsons. Because they have fios, the only 100 fiber optic network, with uploads as fast as downloads, their half house has full internet. Cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of their downloads. Now you might think its a little odd that the wilsons have a half house, get 150 meg internet with equal uploads and downloads, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month online for one year. Visit getfios. Com or call 1888getfios to learn more. Thats 150 meg internet, tv and phone for 79. 99 per month. Cable cant offer speeds this fast at a price this good. Only fios can. Larry in prince georges county, police chief addressed discrimination complaints from within the force. Brad bell was at the News Conference and joins us to explain what is going on. Brad very, very unusual press conference. It has to do with a number of photographs. I think the best thing we can do is pop the photographs up on the screen right now. Try to explain as best we can what they are. These photographs as we understand it are part of what is included a complaint that has been sent to the department of justice by a number of officers. Not sure exactly how many have signed on to it but the sources tell us there are two officers primarily behind the efforts. The photographs have come out recently and are part of the complaint. One of them shows a license plate deemed to be offensive and a vulgar reference to president obama. Another shows a police lockers, part of the collar guard part of the color guard where color is crossed out and they have written africanamerican. Then a training dummy that is used in close quarter combat and shot by paintballs and on man. Well, the police chief called the press conference to go through the photographs one by one. He said the license plate, he found it offensive and ordered it off the property it was revoked by the state of maryland in a matter of days. The locker incident is still being investigated and he explains that the incident with the issue with the mans face on the training dummy is all part of a Training Exercise they have used and has been actually featured in local media. This is what the chief has to say about his concerns. I worry about every member of this institution. I will not be party to any structure, any policy, any practice that would do anything to undermine the individual dignity of any person in prince georges county. Or within the institution which is responsible for the protection of the period. Brad now certainly we are going to stay on the story and we will have much more coming up later on abc7 news. Prince georges county Police Headquarters brad bell, abc7 news. Alison okay, brad. Thank you very much. Neil gorsuch made more rounds on the hill today but the visits, of course, are traditional. But its not tradition for the nominee to be critical of the president who made the nomination during the meetings. Our chief Political Correspondent scott thuman takes a look at whether the nominees can speak their minds and still be in the president s inner circle. Do you condemn the remarks by the president . Scott nominee Neil Gorsuchs supposed concern over the president s critique of other judges has the hill buzzing. He did say he found them to be disheartening and demoralizing. Scott but if the Supreme Court nominee made those remarks, are there consequences for his criticism . Does donald yes men or does he want someone to challenge him . At the senior level he wants someone to challenge him. Look at the people in the campaign. He had strong personalities, newt gingrich, chris christie, rudy giuliani. Strong personalities. His cabinet. Scott it is hardly the first dust up with his eventual pick. Then governor pence tweeted that trumps idea of muslim ban was defenseless. James mattis disagreed with his boss on the need for nato. And he cited ben carsons biography. He says he has pathological disease. If you are pathological there is no cure for that, folks. As he perceives someone who is useful to him, who is not a threat to him he will make use of them. Scott will they continue to speak their minds even if at odds with the wh will the bitter tirades make them hold your tongues . You have to know when to hold your tongue. You dont leak things in the donald trump team. Scott President Trump has been quoted he wants his cabinet to say what they want acknowledging, i may be right, they may be right. Live on capitol hill tonight, scott thuman, abc7 news. Larry thanks. Well now to a developing story from arizona where activists are rallying in support of a woman who was just deported to mexico. Guadalupe garcia was in the u. S. Illegal and arrested for using false papers in 2015. She has since then checked in with Customs Enforcement every two weeks as scheduled. But she checked in yesterday and the agents detained her and she was deported today. Its unjustice that trump wants to separate families when he stereotypes us mexicans. We are not all criminals. Larry she was granted leniency with obama shifted committing violent crimes. She is believed to be the first person deported under the stricter enforcement policy. The word is resilient. D. C. Today is celebrating being one of the 100 resilient cities in a conference at u. D. C. That focuses on urban challenges. The mayor listed some of those. Mayor bowser no matter where you come from, people like to have clean air, safe water to drink, Transportation Systems that work. They want to have energy they can rely on. Alison the Rockefeller Foundation created resilient cities last year. Washington, d. C. Was selected from about 1,000 world cities and joins others like boston and mexico city which had representtives at todays conference on seeking solutions to urban problems. As part of the network they receive Technical Support to solve ongoing social and economic challenges. Larry learning new information about the highway accident that sent five people to the hospital. Famed wallenda says he believes someone involved in the human pyramid blacked out in practice and that sent five people falling 30 feet to the floor. Four are still in the hospital. One released with broken toes. Everyone is expected to be okay. Alison back at home, heavy winds and downed power lines are to blame for closing of a road in fairfax countied counties. Idylwood is closed in both directions until midnight. Heavy winds brought a pole crashing to the middle of the road. A child goes to the emergency room every 24 minutes in the u. S. Because he or she has been injured by falling furniture or a falling television. Our Senior Investigative reporter Lisa Fletcher is here now with a preview of her story, alerting parents to the frequently overlooked dangers. Lisa . Lisa 17,000 injuries a year mostly to kids under five. The con television tips off an average size dresser it hits with a thousand pounds of force. As much as you think this is an obvious issue most parents ray ware of, it parents are aware of, its not. The numbers show it is happening and at an increasing level. Lisa we will show you the biggest danger zones and the fiveminute fix. Dont miss fatal falls tonight at 11 00. Larry so scary. Alison invaluable information for parents. Like you said, you dont always think about this. You dont. Lisa its five bucks and five minutes and you can fix the problem. Worth to tune in tonight. Alison we will. Thank you very much. Larry appreciate it. 1967, it was a turbulent year in the civil rights movement. We take a look back as we honor black history month. The ordinance says no dancing allowed. Its illegal. Larry its not a remake of footloose. We take you to the real town. Alison tonight a sex offender fuge tiff with unforgettable fugitive with steve one more day until the weekend. 38 for the high tomorrow. Saturday is near 60 threes. Sunday in the middle 60s. It will be cooler next week. Lower 50s on monday. Valentines day is dry. A nice mix of sun and clouds around 50 degrees. Back in the 40s for wednesday, thursday, friday. For following weekend. Temperatures around 45 to 50 degrees. Were back after this. Wheres the car . Itll be here in three. Uh, four minutes. Are you kidding me . No, looks like he took a wrong turn. Nt worry, this guys got like a fourstar rating, were good. His name is randy. Thats like one of the most trustworthy names ordering a getaway car with an app . Are you randy . Thats me awesome surprising. Whats not surprising . How much money erin saved by switching to geico. Everybody comfortable with the air temp . I could go a little cooler. Ok. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. Larry the little superhero doing a happy dance because he learned he was done with a years worth of chemotherapy treatments. They found a tumor in his brain when he was 4 months old. They hope it will continue to shrink as he grows. Alison wow larry if i had a bell here i would ring it for him. Alison i know he is a little superman. We are sending him our best wishes. Sometimes you got to cut loose and kick off the sunday shoes. Well, that is not the kate in henrietta, oklahoma. I loved footloose. A valentines day dance canceled because of an old City Ordinance banning dancing near a church. This came after a woman posted it on the facebook page. This is frustrating people there, including the citys enforcing that ordinance. Laws are laws and we are going to abide by them. We cant pick and choose what laws we uphold. Has this law and ordinance been overturned . When . Antiquated ordinance. Nobody looked at it to change it. Alison the owner canceled dance mostly because well, her husband is the city attorney. [laughter] so she didnt really have a choice. The woman who complain said she never wanted the dance to be canceled. She just wonders where do they draw the line here . Larry oh. Okay, they have two days. I believe that is troy aikmans hometown. Football season is over. We need troy to do kevin bacon and grab the boombox or Ipad Bluetooth speakers and do a dance. Footloose 2017. Alison i love it. Larry coming up at abc7 news at 5 00 still upset that Aretha Franklin can essential fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Which means we can deliver equal uploads and downloads. Lcome to 8 and a half maple reet. Ithalf a house. And even though it only has half a kitchen, half the closet space and a half bath, its a full house to the wilsons. Because they have fios, their half house has full internet, with uploads as fast as downloads. Dont pay for uploads that arent up to speed. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for only 79. 99 per month online for one year. Only from fios. Alison new developments to tell you about in Montgomery Countys fight to get back some spring Transit Center. It could take millions more now to try and get back some of the money. Kevin lewis live in Silver Spring to explain why. Kevin the money pit that is the Silver Spring Transit Center is about to cause a lot more. Montgomery county a slew of contractors for 67 million suing a slew of contractors for 67 million. The civil case amassed 10 million pages of documents so the county counsel will soon vote whether or not to approve 4. 2 million in extra funneling to successfully extra funding to successfully push the colossal case through court. That is a lot of money. Kevin eric bailey thinks the county should just move on but attorney mcnamara likes the offensive game. If there is real wrongdoing by con track they should be contractors they should be held accountable ike leggett crafted the game plan of pay now and sue later. Today, however, leggett declined to speak with us on camera or by phone. Im sure all the contractors had liability coverage. Its not as though there is not a president of money there. The question is are the Insurance Companies going to push back with more than 4 million to protect their 67 million . My guess is they will. Alison kevin says when you factor in money, already spent, Montgomery County expects to spend more than 7 million in legal fees. Larry time for a check of the roads. Trenice bishop on traffic watch. Trenice good evening. We have a couple of things happening on the roads. Two incidents along the 66 corridor westbound. Fairly heavy stacked up for then Fairfax County. We look at the volume. We have an incident to the right shoulder at 123. The travel lanes are open. Slow pace continues on westbound 66. This is closer to the Fairfax County parkway. Very slow there. Travel lanes are open. The ride to the westbound direction. There is a regular spot traveling on the beltway heading home on 495. The usual delays picking up on the inner and the outer loop between maryland and virginia. Outer loop delays heiferriest from the heavier from the 270 spur. To annandale area. Slowing from the spur to North Bethesda to rockville. Heavier volume here making the northbound trek to gaithersburg. Once you get closer to Old Germantown it calms down. We had snow squalls for folks in virginia. It is Getting Better but expect a slow ride through stafford county. Alison thank you. Its lunchbox weather time. Doug it is indeed. Lets talk about Oakland Terrace Elementary School where abc7s meteorologist josh knight visited. Talk to fourth graders in the Elementary School as part of the lunchbox weather program. Showed them a lot of stuff inside. Like to do weather experiments that are all safe and the kids learn the physics of how weather works. That is fun to see. We showed behindthescenes video of how we do we here at abc7 and took them outside for quick recess break to check out the stormwatch7, the equivalent inside and the function that it has during the days we are out in big weather events. We had a question from Daniel Hernandez and see what he has to say. What is your favorite day as a meteorologist . Doug i thought about that. I knew what the question would be. The obvious sw storms but almost 40 years there are so many big storms i had to think of something really special. The most special day is the first day i was every on tv doing the weather. After whole life of being a hobby in 1978, channel 12 my first day on tv. I stood there with a weather map and thought im actually doing that alison we want to see a picture of that. Doug i think that. Alison do you have a picture . Doug probably somewhere. Back in the lime green suits, the ties you could land a plane on. Larry that were huge. Alison a good day. Doug thank you for the question. Alison all right. Thank you. Looking out on the morning rain larry oh, the queen of soul. She is ready to call it quits. Say it aint so. Art Retha Franklin says she will retire at the end of the year before but she does she plans to do concerts this year but no specific dates will be announced. Hopefully she will grace us in d. M. V. With one more stop. Alison lets hope so. Next years Winter Olympics coverage will be without sports host bob costas. Costas is stepping down from the role. Mike tirico will take his place. He has been the onair concierge olympic coverage 11 finals since 1992. He is not retiring but will be commentating in big news events and make documentaries as well. Larry give heavy lifting to mike. Alison he is taking the tom brokaw route now. Pop in and out. Erin costas had a great run but i love tirico. Im excited. More of him is not a bad thing. This weeks team player is always around the game of softball. Several years ago she pitched in the Little League world series. Last year she struck out 17 in the wca fi the Junior Women National training team. It is here in her indoor Training Facility where she perfects her fastball. I have always loved it. Just being like on the mound. Like in the center. Erin so good her fastball touches 69 Miles Per Hour. A lot of great daddaughter time. Erin she had a 175 record and she spanned 199 bat stranded 199 batters in the process. Throughout your career so far what is one of your proud moments . Last year probably. For oconnel. The championship game for the wcac was like a 19inning long game. I pitched all 19 innings. Erin she was part of the to to 2013 mclean team that went to the world series. Lost in the championship game. She was selected to the junior National Training team. I am so excited. 217 girls at the open tryout. Ten got invited to the selection camp. I was one of those ten. Erin she will be training in june in florida. We wish her all the best. She has accomplished so much. I would strike out against her. No question. Erin me, too. Larry we all would. Next we take you to the newseum where a special exhibit is taking you back to the year 1957. Alison a look at why its so important right now. Larry as we head to break, birthday wishes for Virginia Governor terry mcauliffe. He turns 60 today. What does it feel like . Like . Does fearless age . Or does it simply grow. Stronger . Fearless looks a little different to us all. But with a new carefirst medplus medigap plan, you can find yours. 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Economic inequality and the vietnam war in violent riots and protests. There were riots in 150 cities across the country. Sparked by poverty, racism. Black power continued to be a polarizing voice across america. Ryan the year was 1967. Fast forward and many of the topics are relevant today. Scenes of protest of a divided country. Ryan 1967, civil rights at 50 is an addon to the exhibit make some noise where students use the First Amendment freedom to bring about change. This is the lunch counter from greensboro, north carolina, where four College Students launched a sitin, in 1960. Its the basis of what happened in the civil rights movement. This exhibit goes to different peoples lives. Ryan just in time for black history month, in northwest, ryan news, abc7 news. Larry at 6 00 serving the customers and a fire. Larry badly burned trying to save his business. Now he is speaking out for the first ti he is has trying to get the business back. Alison a wanted sex offender with an unforgettable face. How he was captured in the heart of the district. Larry snow squalls in our area right now and when they will end and what comes next on the weather roller coaster of ours. Announcer from abc7 news, this is a breaking news alert. Larry first up tonight we should let you know we are standing by for a ruling on President Trumps controversial travel ban. The threejudge panel at the ninth Circuit Court of appeals will have a ruling announced tonight at 8 00. They have already come to a decision. The big question is this. Whether the travel ban will be put back in place or remain on hold while the legal battle moves on. They will announce it by 9 00. Be first to get the alert by signing up for our breaking news alerts. Go buy ivankas stuff. The White House Briefing room. Blurring the lains between the white house. We have seen businesses rise and fall based on connections to trump. 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