Overnight tonight. Especially tomorrow night where the entire region is posted for a saturday night, sunday morning freeze. Any warmer days ever . More coming up in a few minutes. Maureen stay ahead of the weather every day by signing up for stormwatch7 and alerts. You can have them texted right to your phone. Sign up on wjla. Com. Leon the former Wooten High School quarterback accused of driving drunk causing a horrific deadly crash pleaded guilty. That surprise plea came days before samuel ellis was supposed to go on trial. Montgomery county reporter kevin lewis is covering the story and checks in live from rockville. What do we know about the deal reached here with the plea . Kevin this was mutually beneficial for all parties involved. The prosecutors get convictions on the two top charges. In turn, samuel ellis gets three additional charges dropped. The vi weeklong and emotional trial. I can tell you a very tight knit group of people knew about the plea deal. No reporters were pres
Stay connected with the stormwatch7 weather team through wjla. Com or the facebook and the twitter feeds. Our download the stormwatch7 app to get it at your fingertips. Ill be overwhelmed. I have to start my life over again. I had a life. I got locked up. I had this life. Now i have to start another life all over again. Leon today, Keith Harward starts rebuilding his life after 33 years in prison for a crime he didnt commit. Suzanne kennedy in the newsroom now with a look at what led to his exoneration. Suzanne admit head committed the crime would have helped keith avoid the Death Penalty but he refused to do that. He knew he was innocent. He held out hope all the years he would be exonerated. I knew i was right. The 60yearold former navy sailor was wrongfully committed of a newport news rape and murder in 1982. He has been locked up ever since. At one point facing the Death Penalty. This week after d. N. A. Evidence exonerated him the Virginia Supreme Court threw out his conviction. T
Snowshowers. Chief meteorologist doug hill has the forecast. A bleak outlook. Doug not a pretty picture, especially for tomorrow. Well tell you what to expect. Clouds increase tonight. Temperatures start to fall off as well. As we get through the Early Morning hours we will feel the effect of the cold front that is advancing in our direction. We wake up to temperatures in the 30s with the skies becoming mostly cloudy. Tonight there is a freeze warning in effect north northwest of the metro area. The entire region is under a freeze watch for tomorrow night into sunday morning. Very much expect a large part of this area to be upgraded to a freeze warning. Again, this is for tomorrow night for the entire area. What we are talking about is a strong cold front and low Pressure Center over chicago now that will rapidly advance we think by 5 00 in the morning. There will be areas of rain, rain showers, snowshowers to the north of metro washington. As the system moves out, colder in by 3 30 in
A chilly rain and snow that will turn colder and windy the further through the day that we go pick there is a yellow weather alert the cause it is going to be nothing like the middle of april. It is feeling more like february outside on your saturday. Live doppler shows the first of what will be two waves of precipitation moving through the area. Places closer to the metro, your temperatures are in the mid40s and it is all rain showers. You can see this differentiation up to 70. We are getting some wet snow mixing in and further in, too the bout ray, it is light rain showers with if you areas of yellow that may be wet snowflakes mixing in and further north, too dayton, with got a little bit of snow mixing in, wet snowflakes and temperatures are sitting above freezing. It is melting on impact and this is april. We are dealing with this . Unfortunately, we are for today. We have more wrap around snow showers from the backside that will move in later this afternoon and there is another ch
Contested battle for new york. Meanwhile, ted cruz is on the hunt for Convention Delegates in colorado. Brian mooar is on capitol hill with details on rare strategy. Reporter rare, perhaps unprecedented. Ted cruz actually going to colorado to twist the arms of some of these delegates to get them in his camp. Now, normally these delegates are unknown and unsung, but in this election cycle, theyre in the spotlight. Unless youre a hardcore republican insider, you probably never heard of the people on this colorado stage. I want to represent you as undecided or undeclared, but i do stand with ted cruz. Reporter but the Ted Cruz Campaign knows these wouldbe delegates could be the key to stopping donald trump. And had trumping the frontrunner in the race to scoop up unpledged delegates who can side with any candidate at the convention in july. Winning and winning o hope. Thats what were going to do and go into the convention aggressively with as many delegates as we can muster. Reporter trum