Identifying the potential explosive. The chief says the pups will join a key piece of the layered security metro uses every day. You have to rely on the dog. Peoples lives can be at stake. Rider osar the fellow employees. Its something we take very serious. Each one of the new handlers with the k9 unit have been previously part of k9 team with the metro transit police. The second largest in the region. Reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. Jonathan thanks. Breaking news of a foiled bomb plot. We are just getting this in. Its coming from australia. That is where Authorities Say they arrested seven peak who were planning a seven people who were planning series of bombings in melbourne on christmas day. Its being tied to isis. Targets were train station, st. Pauls cathedral in melbourne. A series of raids in the last few hours neutralized the threat. Maureen turning to the war on terror. Virginia man is facing charges he tri isis. Federal agents arrested 26yearold Lionel Williams of suffolk yesterday. According to Court Documents williams sent money to someone he thought was trying to arm isis fighter. Williams has accused of proclaiming support for the terror group on social media. Two drastically different pictures tonight in the aftermath of the terror attack in berlin. A massive memorial is growing at the Christmas Market where 12 people were killed on monday. The market reopened to the public today. Meanwhile, a National Manhunt grows in the search for the suspect anis amri. German police say they found his finger prints in the cab of the truck used to carry out the attack. Before the attack, amris name was on terror watch list across europe. Jonathan in the coming days more than 135,000 people from the area will walk through the metal detectors at the local airports to start the vacation. We getaway. Doug hill has the travel forecast. Start off with richard. I understand the airport is the scene of reunions tonight and smooth sailing as well. Richard it is so awesome to see the families get together for the holidays. Check it out. Take a look. You can see folks arriving at the airport. You have to ask a question, what would make these people come all this way . Maybe its the power of love. For 19yearold leanna hayes and her fiancee terry perry im excited. My heart is beating. I cant wait. Richard this is what the holidays are all about. I havent seen her in so long. Its a real treat. Minutes before we found her at the baggage claim. Eyes searching, clutching a bouquet of roses. She hadnt seen terry based in fort bliss, texas, since i get to see him but not physically. I dont get to hug him and kiss him and say hi all the time. All the traffic hassle, the crowded airport, the stress. All of that went away in an instant. He is busy, im busy. To see him now for christmas is araising. Just outside we found christina, her backpack filled with gifts. Vision of family in her head. All the memories, baking cookies or decorating a tree. Everything is the same. This is what happens when two sisters see each other for first time in a year. Its hectic because its the holidays. At the end of the Day Christmas morning you get together and a moment of tranquility. Richard tidings of comfort and joy and love. Making the journey all worth it. Terry has two weeks leave to hang around here. Leanna told us she went to three Different Stores to find now thats love. Reporting live, richard reeve, abc7 news. Maureen thank you. That is a look at people arriving in the area. But those who had leave the area had a very pleasant day to pack up the car. What is waiting at the destination . Stormwatch7s chief meteorologist doug hill has a look at the travel forecast. Doug . Doug hi, maureen. Its all quiet here. If you are traveling locally. But a good question. What is happening around the rest of the country. Lets tell you about this evening. What we have is what we will keep. Clear skies, temperatures in the 40s. Turning corner in the morning turning colder in the morning. It will be beautiful. Sunshine in new england. Temperature in the 40s. In the midwest, 30 was the area of the rain and snow mix. But the temperatures are above sneezing. So most of the country is above freezing and above average. Florida wins the prize here. Sunshine for the peninsula. Temperatures are 80 degrees. Quiet through the southeast. Central plains are quiet. An area to keep an eye the west coast. It will develop tomorrow and more so in the day on saturday. Rain moving on shore. Maybe touch of rain and the snow in the pacific northwest, salt lake city. 44 in the sunshine. Rapid city a week ago below zero. Sunshine and 36. If you are staying home, we will take care of the weatherf you for the next ten days in nine minutes. Maureen thank you, doug. Stay connected with the storm watch 7 weather team wherever you go. The latest forecast and whether alerts are Available Online at wjla. Com. On the facebook and the twitter pages or by downloading the free stormwatch7 weather app. Jonathan still ahead for us at 6 00, the search for missing lynxes. Where thieves made off with two of the wildcats and what they left behind. They are lining up as far as the eye can see. Im stephen tschida. In a moment i will tell you what they are trying to see. I will give you a hint. It has to do with arrest that has temporarily shut down a local police drug lab. Next at abc7 news at 6 00. Maureen the exodus and the fighting is over in the syria wartorn city of aleppo. The government of bashar assad says it is now in control of the city for the first time in the rebel fighters evacuated this afternoon. While the milestone does not end syria sixyear civil war it is a major victory for if assad regime. Jonathan Prince Georges Police say a man shot by an officer had a history of problems with the law. They noticed two men sleeping in a car. One of them, 19yearold Terrance Thomas jr. Woke up and grabbed a gun and pointed it at the officer tabbing on his window. That tapping on the window. That is when the officers partner shot him and killed him. They recovered two guns. One was a. R. Style rifle and the other was a pistol. He was out on bonds after weapons and drugs were seized from his home a year ago. Anne Arundel County Police drug lab now going dark tonight after the civilian supervisor was arrested. The charge . Drug possession. Police say they found a pile of pill boxs car in a traffic stop. They believe she was stealing the drugs from the drop boxes where citizens dispose of unwanted drugs. Box has been suspended as have all operations in the drug lab. Yeah next at 6 00, people lining up for a miracle. What is drawing them to one d. C. , one of d. C. s hottest new bars and why it wont be around for long. Jonathan stormwatch7, chief meteorologist doug hill will check back in. He has the complete travel forecast. And what time to expect rain over the holiday weekend. We know holiday memories are often made at the dinner table. 7 salutes wants to set a place at the table for those who sacrificedded so much for all of us. You have a chance to win a dining room set for a veteran. Go to wjla. Com 7salutes. Nominate a deserving veteran that you know. Nominations are accepted through d did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats 10 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. Jonathan the case of the missing lynx. Literally. Lynxes. Someone stole two siberian lynxes out of the kennel. The cats are ten months old and they cost 4,000 the thief or thieves left behind the third lynx in the kennel. That is her photo. The stolen cats look just like her. If you recognize them the police want to hear from you. Maureen days before christmas several residents reunited with gifts they ordered but hadnt received because they were stolen by porch pirates. Am son told me it had been delivered. I checked on monday. It still wasnt there. I thought it was a mistake. Maureen they presented them to the rightful owners. They recovered the loot after arresting two teenagers who say they followed delivery trucks and the swipe packages off of the doorsteps. Jonathan marylands governor receive a joyous welcome today as he brought good tidings or glad tidings to hagerstown. Oh what fun is it to ride in a one horse open sleigh the welcome was the governors announcen which means 35 million in five years to improve the downtown area. Also it means expanding the countys performing arts school. Also road improvements for the region. A lot of good stuff. A beautiful town. It has so much going for it. They have issues. I think it needs love. It needs love down hear. It needs people shopping and eating and walking and just community. Jonathan the bulk of the fund willing go toward a publicprivate partnership. The goals include everything from bringing in the new businesses to expanding farmers markets. Maureen you wont find kris kringle or a macies Department Store but you will find a miracle in district. Specifically on 7th street. A stretch of bars that joined forces to create a giant christmas bar as they call it. One of the hottest locations in town. Stephen tschida joins us now for stephen a hot location on a cold night maureen. This is it. The more can on 7th street be miracle on 7th street behind me. These bars. These are the people lining up to get in to the miracle on 7th street. This line goes on and on. Some of the people have been waiting for more than an hour. Is it a real attraction. It is a real holiday event. They would stand the cold and the long lines for a holiday experience. Because its christmas. Its fun. Festive. Stephen boy, is it festive. Three bars banded together to create a holiday extravaganza. Ceilings lit up. Decorations decking almost every inch of wall space. Drinks in honor of old st. Nick. Its a ton of fun inside. I can see why people want to come. And come they do. Ever since the miracle on 7th street is open, the place is packed. I expect to be this busy. Its a long line. Stephen its a bar and this is an adult crowd but some of the people who come here indulge the inner christmas kid. This is her dream come true. For teresa, the miracle on 7th street is more than a fun night out. I seem excited about this. This is my Christmas Present coming from him, coming here with me, sacrificing for me. Im here with a raiddy having an egg not lady having an egg eggnog shot. That is festive. Thank you so much. Its crazy here. As you can see, extremely festive. This is about my last hit for a night and i might have christmas cheer. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Maureen look what can he say about christmas cheer . Jonathan he is going to have some. [laughter] maureen i think he planned being at that location at this time of the day. Doug good timing. Good story. Doug ar decent forecast . We are still looking at saturday. Christmas eve in the day of having rain. Before and after then things look up. Lets get busy. Tell you the weather story. Looking weather and southwest from washington to winter green. The weather bug camera at the resort is 32. Temperatures will get in the lower to the mid20s at the resort tonight. Snow guns will be working all night long. Good skiing conditions. Even with temperatures above average. Nighttime temperatures are at or below freezing. All the midatlantic ski resorts will be in great shape to make snow to get our own. Temperatures and the sky conditions, we are turning clear. 45 in washington. 39 in winchester. 43 in lawyer lure. 47 in 43 in luray. With the clearing sky and push of colder air behind the cold front we drop in 20 to the lower 30s overnight. The only precipitation we see in the each is a patch of know in the frontal zone through the state. Off the that is heading east over the canadian maritimes and that will be that. Quiet weather for most of the country tomorrow for traveling. Locally with four, five, sixhour drive in the washington area, no weather issues at all. Through the evening hours with the clear skies. We will drop to the 30s. By morning, 25 to 33 degrees. The range of the wakeup temperatures. Through the day tomorrow, plenty of sunshine. You will notice in the afternoon the clouds will start to increase. High of 53, 54. They thicken because of the advancing system. The winds are out of the south. The warmer air overspreads tomorrow night. The timing is encouraging because we think there is a good chance the rain is out of area by 1 00 in the afternoon. Whether we get sun or not, i dont know but it is in the outlook for sunDay Christmas day. The story. A good chance of rain saturday and sunday. Monday for the first day of kwanzaa. Partly cloudy skies. 60 on tuesday. Colder on wednesday. The temperatures will start to cool down and then new years eve will be sunny and cold. Stay with us. Abc7 news at wait, does this mean youre going to have to get a jobnow. Where you like, tuck in your shirt . And carpool to work with people who are all like, good morning . And go to meetings where you pitch Brilliant Ideas and win the respect of your peers . And have to try to fix that annoying copy machine . Dude did you check your credit score . Yeah, i signed up for credit karma. See. But i was thinking. If we both work on our credit, we could by our own record shop. So down. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. Scott the Washington Redskins need help. But right now they cant worry about things they cant control. What they can control is getting a win saturday in chicago to keep the playoff hopes alive. Redskins hitting the practice field today gearing up for a Christmas Eve showdown in the windy city. Washington has to win. Plain and simple. To do that, they need kirk cousins to bounce back from one of his worst games of the season. The quarterback turned the ball over twice mohammad night. But he is ready to turn the page and focus on the bears. Its not my first time coming away from a tough loss. I have learned throughout my years of playing football to keep going. Not ride the roller come ready to go with an intense focus and go play. Scott the redskins game in chicago on saturday. Its not easy going up to syracuse and getting a win at the carrier dome. I would know. I used to be one of the crazy students making a lot of noise in basketball games. A big win last weekend for georgetown beating the rivals cuse on the road. A win that could be a turning point in their season. Tonight the hoyas return to the Verizon Center to host unc greensboro in the final tune up before big east play begins. Winners to five straight georgetown is playing with confidence on the court. I think with the if start we had. It could have been easy for everything to go south. The guys have rally around each other. We have made steps. We are getting better. Scott matinee at george mason. Patery yots are facing prayer patriots prairie view a m. Patriots win. The George WashingtonMens Basketball Team in action tonight. Colonials on the road battling miami. Guys, d. W. Looking for the fourth straight win of the year here. Jonathan goodness. All right. Thanks. Great. We are looking forward to your forecast. Doug its written up there. That is why you said that. We got ourselves a clear skies. You got me. Doug next three days. 47 with sunshine and increasing clouds tomorrow. Rain Christmas Eve morning. Should end in the afternoon. Sunshine for christmas day. Steve rudin is busy in the Weather Center keeping his eye on the changing model guidance. We will update the Holiday Outlook and the timing on the rain on saturday. Jonathan it does not say that. She really cares. Maureen world news tonight with david muir up next. Jonathan see you at 11 00. Maureen have a good night. As we come on the air tonight, the Holiday Travel mess. Delays and cancellations now building coast to coast as we now track two storms set to hit before christmas. The treacherous driving conditions. Also break iing news comingn now of a new christmas terror plot just this warted. Multiple arrests. And we have new video of that truck plowing into the Christmas Market. The your jet interNational Manhunt. Tonight, ivanka trump and her family harassed on a flight. Meantime, the president elect tweeting about building up Americas Nuclear arsenal. The consumer warning, just before christmas. The furniture tumbling over, killing children. And tonight, news of a multimillion dollar settlement. And the battery fears. This device blowing up on this bus. And