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WJLA Good Morning Washington 6am January 8, 2018

Through 9 00 p. M. We are dry across the area. You can see a crayola effect of colors. The blue indicating the snow. Green indicating the rain. Ice. Ink indicating the temperatures are definitely cold. It is 1020 Degrees Higher than it was at this time yesterday. 17, manassas. Kids that are already going to be going to school this morning, if they are not already dry at thewill be bus stop. We will have some rain and it will be freezing rain falling and creating some icy road conditions, but we have a bigtime warmup coming our way later this week. When i join you in 10 minutes, i will take you through our futurecast coming out the precipitation in your neighborhood. Common this time of year. Crayolaou said it was a box of colors, was that a 64box . Or the 16 box . Eileen the 16 box. How about that . [laughter] main we have water breaks. We have crews out there working your red top road because of the water main breaks. Only the left lane is able to get by at this time. We also have the water main break along riverdale road between lamont with all lanes blocked off each way. Back in virginia, still busy cleaning up a crash northbound 28 at 66. Left side of the roadway is blocked. That is our traffic watch. Back in the next 10 minutes, we will take a look at 95. Larry ok, julie. Families devastated, flooded over the weekend after a water main burst in prince georges county. Autria for many of them, the water is the least of their worries. Suzanne kennedy is live. Are. Ne they certainly progress being made within this last hour. You can see them filling this hole here. The water main has been repaired and the water is back on for the customers that were impacted. There is significant damage to at least a halfdozen homes here in the area. Restoration crews worked yesterday, but they can only fix the situation, they could not replace the items lost in this incident. A faulty eightinch castiron main burst sunday. Hours of underground linking overcame the sewer lines and that left some homes with four and purifiedewage water in their basement. Water bu have lost major appliances, furniture, and intakes. The Utility Company says it will cover the cost of repairing or replacing some of the damaged items, but as we learned yesterday when we were out here, a lot of those items have sentimental value and just cant be replaced, so there is a situation that has some homeowners very upset. In the meantime, they are filling this hole here. Reporting live in prince georges county, Suzanne Kennedy. Larry look at this. The cold weather blamed for dumping more than three inches of water inside jfk airport forcing workers to evacuate the terminal causing widespread flight delays. Some passengers sat on planes on thenarmac for hours and waited several more hours to get their luggage. I have it fire autria incredible video coming out of boston, crews battling 20 degree wind chills during a firefight. The Boston Fire Department sharing these incredible pictures. Even the firefighters themselves were covered in ice. That is an incredible picture. Larry it is. Autria a terrifying situation out of texas. Larry a young reporter missing this morning. Adrianna hopkins is live. Is Anna Courtney roland reporter for texas a m football and she has been missing from the houston area since yesterday afternoon. She center ays text saying a man followed her from walgreens home and that was the last roommate heard from her. Her mother then got a text from the phone. There is a social media hashtag helpfindcourtney. Autria if you are headed to work this morning because you did not when the Mega Millions or powerball, at least two people are waking up a whole lot richer. The winning Powerball Ticket was sold in merrimack, New Hampshire. The owner of that Winning Ticket remains a mystery. As for the Mega Millions jackpot, a Winning Ticket was sold at a 7eleven in port richie florida. A reminder today on metro. Starting today, you can no longer carry a negative balance on smart trick cards. If you dont have enough money to finish your trip, you wont be able to get out of the gate first. Larry today, the military is saying metoo. Advocates will hold a demonstration outside the pentagon to raise awareness about Sexual Assault and harassment in the military. I want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon. Message taking center stage at the Golden Globes. A blackout on the red carpet. Door ongetting out the this monday morning, no weather worries, just dry and cold. We will start to watch a little bit of freezing rain moving to the area. Hey yeah . I switched to geico and got more more savings on Car Insurance . They helped with homeowners, too plus motorcycle, boat and rv insurance geicos got you covered like a blanket houston . You seeing this . Geico. Expect great savings and a whole lot more. Eileen come to your tv and take a look at this. Police close to the street because they are afraid the ice could fall at any time. In chicago, they are finally going to get above freezing today. The high, 36. Does begin and another weather system moving in our area, we do have the risk for some freezing rain. By late morning early lunchtime, that is when we are going to be tracking the freezing rain. As you are picking up the kids from the bus stop, we will have brain. Grab the umbrella heading out the door. The rain freezing on contact. Temperatures may be a few degrees above freezing. Since it has been so cold somebody days, i am concerned with a little bit of that ice. Evening drive and that we dry out overnight, but it is going to refreeze, ice accumulations will be around 0. 05 inches or less. A big warmup heading our way with the abc sevenday forecast. Watch out for the ice later this afternoon. Northbound on 28. Of 66 for on 28 north this accident. Look for delays, not 66 east end westbound. Trouble northbound i95. A crash at the Prince William parkway. The focal point of delays coming north from potomac mills. Now, we have delays due to a crash, inner loop of the beltway near telegraph road reported on the left side of the highway. Still dealing with the water main break along two lanes getting by. Traffic is moving in each direction. Better bet is to stick with university boulevard. , we in the next 10 minutes will update the right out of dale city. Larry a blackout on the red carpet, the powerful message from hollywoods most powerful women making waves after the Golden Globes. Saving your kids from their own iphone, what investors are urging apple to do as but prevagen helps your brain th an ingredient. Iginally discovered. In jellyfish. In clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. The name to remember. You are watching good morning washington. Autria breaking news right now, take a look at this. Two boats on fire in d. C. , a live look at the James Creek Marina, where this is all unfolding at second and z streets in southwest pc we have a reporter heading there right now, John Gonzalez is on his way. Now it look back at a starstudded night in hollywood. Larry a memorable night with women at the forefront. Adrian hopkins is live. Adrianna actors and actresses dressed in black to support the times up movement. The awards show delivered a powerful message from women and show host seth meyers set the tone in his opening monologue. Addressing the harassment issue. It was the passionate speeches by the female stars of hollywood that made for a really empowering night. Time is up. We see you. We hear you. The new day is on the horizon [applause] wearing black and solidarity is one step. The Legal Defense fund is a major step. Adrianna Oprah Winfrey addressed current political and social movements. Coming up, kidd oshea will have a live report from recap the big winners. Autria the next big awards show coming up as the oscars right here on abc7. We are already counting down to the nominations to find out who is in the running on january 24. Steve bannon now saying his comments in the book fire and fury are inaccurate. He has backed off his comments, but another one of President Trumps advisers had a different reaction. The explosive tv interview is coming up at 6 30. The president focusing on the south as he talks to farmers and then it is on to atlanta to watch the College Football national championship. Autria it all comes down to this tonight. Georgia and alabama in an sec showdown. It is their first matchup since the 2015 regular season. Georgia has not won since 1980. Alabama has won four championships in the last nine years. To the nfl playoffs, it was an exciting wildcard weekend. The jaguars hosting the buffalo bills. Both teams ended lengthy playoff droughts, but the jags defense dominated. Jacksonville goes on to face the steelers in pittsburgh on sunday. The Carolina Panthers on the road against drew brees and the new orleans saints. Carolina would make it interesting late, but the saints hold on to win 3126 and they went on to face minnesota on sunday. Putting carolina under review. The question is did the panthers put cam newton in too early after a monster hit . The former league m. V. P. Woozy after getting this hit. Four minutes later, he was back in the game. Nfl officials have been in context get answers from the panthers medical staff. Autria the flu season is spiking early and hitting hard. 46 states are reporting widespread flu activity and that includes here in our area. In california, 27 people younger than the age of 65 have died from the flu this season compared to just four last season. One of the victims, sevenyearold cisco galvez. Never expected it. He was very healthy. Autria nationwide, there are 41,000 confirmed cases of the flu, twice as many as this time last year. It is not too late to get the flu shot. Say it is 30 ls effective against the most powerful strain, but it can help reduce the severity of symptoms. Larry a push to hold apple accountable to your kids. Young children. Toy have started a campaign develop new software that would let parents limit phone use more easily. Autria yes. Larry i agree. Take it away. Autria one thing you do need your phone for today is the stormwatch7 weather app for what is ahead. Eileen bingo one, it has the School Closings on there. It has a look at our live doppler radar. It will give you push alerts if there are updates to the Winter Weather advisory. It is going to be your friend on the go. I do want to start with the bigger picture. We are talking about the wintry weather later this afternoon, freezing rain. Iser this week, the thaw coming. It is going to feel like a heat wave. We will be sticking with those above average temperatures. We drop sunday of this weekend. 31 degrees in frostburg. That is a sign of what is coming as we get milder temperatures starting to move in from west to east. 23, beltsville. 21 in fauquier county. Remington feeling a little bit colder, we have a little bit of a breeze out there. Dry getting into work this morning. After lunchtime, we start to see that light, freezing rain developing. Watch out for to the slick spots. The Winter Weather advisory going into effect at 1 00 p. M. , lasting until 9 00 p. M. Freezing rain is rain falling from the sky, but freezing on contact. We will get a glaze to about 0. 05 inches of accumulation. We could have slick spots possible, especially on bridges and overpasses. The refreeze possible through the overnight hours. Tomorrow, 48. It will be mild to round out the work week. This water main breaks and temperatures in the teens and 20s. Watch out for ice there. Julie the accidents, we have a number of them. The crash after the Prince William parkway has been pulled over to the shoulder. Look for those delays leaving dale city. We also have the crashes reported on the inner loop telegraph road. It looks like whatever was there has cleared. That is on the inner loop over to the springfield interchange. We have reports of a threecar pileup inner loop of the capital beltway out of Silver Spring headed around toward college park. We are told at the inner loop is now closed because of this crash. It is on the inner loop after the Northwest Branch, but before New Hampshire avenue. No one is getting past the scene. Your lanes are open. That is your traffic watch. Back in 10, we will update the right out of Silver Spring. We are giving away for tickets to monster it is roaring into the capital arena on january 27 and 28 and we want you to get in for free. Wins. Number 7 good luck. It is monster jam you have to say it like that, guys. 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Larry meanwhile, a water main break at jfk shutting down one of the terminals and creating even more chaos as that monster storm that stranded so many passengers. Gma firstornings look, just when it seemed it waternot get worse, a pipe at jfk burst, apparently from the freezing cold. Three inches of water flooding part of the Main International terminal. Even before the water failed, jfk was a mess, two days after the bomb cyclone. Many airlines tried to recover from the canceled friday flights and run a regular schedule too. For some, that meant doubling the number of flights under just were not it number of gate and everything slowed not enough gates and everything slowed to a crawl. It was completely unacceptable. We who has seen it all at jfk. We have all been here over 16 hours. Coming up at 7 00 a. M. Abc news, new york. Tone of the most pristine and beautiful parts of the world. But Barbara Comstock just voted to put it up for sale. Why . To pay for tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations. Comstock supported Donald Trumps tax scheme for the wealthy, adding 1. 5 trillion to the debt and leaving us with the bill. Tell Barbara Comstock we wont stand for selling our wild lands to give billionaires a tax cut. What if more of the came from Renewable Resources . What if the electric grid could our grid were less vulnerable and more secure . What if all these what ifs became a reality . Well, they are. At dominion energy, were completely transforming our power grid and the way we think of energy. To move from what if to whats next. Dominion energy. Now, good morning washington on your side we begin with a breaking news alert. Autria that breaking news in just the last 15 minutes, a crash tying up the inner loop. Overhead right now. Julie wright has the workarounds. Larry more breaking news in d. C. Two boats burning. John southwest for you. John good morning. We just arrived here. This is the James Creek Marina in southwest d. C. Not terribly far from where the new soccer stadium is being built. Take a look at the flames shooting up from the marina. Two vessels are involved, both burning at this hour. There is a fire boat on the scene dousing the area. They still do not have this fire under control. There is a number of Fire Equipment apparatus, fire personnel out here on the scene. We are going to spend the camera around to show you how much activity is taking place at the marina. The cause of this fire is still unknown. It broke out about an hour ago. We rushed to the scene and we are still waiting to hear from a Public Information officer to try to get us some more information, but as we swing the camera back around, we can tell you that it is obviously extremely cold. A lot of times, these have heaters on board that are left on overnight to try to keep pipes and other equipment from freezing. We are not sure if that had anything to do with this, but right now, two vessels on fire. You can see the flames right now on

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