day. people are calling in wondering about their loved ones. the flag here is flying at half staff. >> we need help. >> reporter: haitian-americans spent the last few years raising hurricane relief funds for haiti. but this is the worst disaster haiti has ever seen. >> many people died. we don't know how many yet. right now we are working together, all haitians in washington, virginia and maryland like we did last time during the hurricanes. to help our brothers in haiti. >> reporter: he and other local leaders met with the republic's ambassador to the united states to get updated and brainstorm relief plans. >> we participated in the revolutionary war of the united states. we helped you guys. in latin america, we helped simon bolivar to liberate the boliviancountries. today we are seeking the same solidarity. >> reporter: raymond joseph says it's been non-stop meeting with the state department and ting to speak with haiti's president whose palatial home was levelled. >> in the palace, it has been hit that hard. just the flimsy, flimsy abode hanging on the heels around port-au-prince must be just like cardboard. >> reporter: the numbers of dead and injured are staggering given the level of catastrophe. it's not surprising to those who know the country well. >> port-au-prince was built for a population of 50,000. and today, in and around port-au-prince we have 2 million people. and a lot of them are living in flimsy abodes. >> members of the local haitian community are preparing for a candlelight vigil here at 7:30. they are coordinating with other members in the respective cities of chicago, new york, and boston. they will all hold candlelight vigils at 7:30 tonight. we're live at the haitian embassy in northwest. elaine reyes. jim, back to you. organizations across our area have already sprung into action to help the haitians from the red cross to local churches, relief efforts are already well under way. pat collins has more from the sacred heart church in northwest d.c. pat? >> wendy, the mobilization to help t people in haiti is well under way. it's coming from all quarters. it's coming in many ways. physical and spiritual. here at sacred heart church, every monday morning there's a special mass for people of haitian decent. the priest who says that mass was in haiti at the time of the earthquake. he's among the missing there. as stories like this spread around our city, the relief effort begins to ramp up. ♪ >> reporter: inside this house in silver spring, constant prayer and song in haitian creole. but you don't have to understand the creole language to feel the pain and the passion these men and women have for their relatives and friends back in their haitian homeland. in the kitchen of the home, james is on the computer trying to contact his family in haiti. his calvary baptist church runs a compound in carrefour that provides services for thousands of people. he wants to help, but he can't reach his people there. he's fearful it's all gone. what can you do? >> right now, nothing. i mean, except for praying. that's what we're doing right now, we're praying. we just want to try to reach them again. that's it. >> reporter: at the national headquarters of the red cross, the disaster team in full alert. they're getting pictures from haiti, damage estimates, casualty reports. the red cross command center is active. help is on the way. >> terrific, terrific, catastrophic event. no question about that. >> reporter: again, the things you're doing? >> we're sending people, money, supplies. >> reporter: haiti is a catholic country. a very catholic country. and many haitians who live in the washington area attend special masses at churches like sacred heart on 16th street. the washington archdiocese is raising money to send food and supplies to the haitian people. >> we're going to do everything we can between our prayer and our material support to try to get this country back on its feet. >> reporter: at sacred heart, a special sense of concern. you see, father jasmine is unaccounted for. father jasmine is the priest who performs the special haitian masses here in washington. monday he went back to haiti to visit his mother. >> i'm very nervous. i'm edgy. when you don't have the opportunity or the possibilities of communicating with somebody, you really -- you get worried. >> relief experts say that this recovery could take a long time. a very long time. wendy, back to you. >> pat collins, thank you, pat. emerncy responders from the d.c. area are already heading towards haiti. the urban search and rescue team loaded up 48 tons of supplies on an airplane that took off from dulles airplane this morning. 72 members of the team are heading to haiti. they are familiar with that country. that team was there two years ago when a school in haiti collapsed. twoembers of the team are members of the d.c. fire department. they are sergeant chris holmes and his dog, kato. they were also part of the unit that went to the haiti school collapse last year. they've been used in some high-profile local incidents as well such as the metro train crash last summer. by air and sea, aid is pouring in to haiti. several planes have already arrived. the airport in port-au-prince is functional. a huge hospital ship is standing by in baltimore and can be ready to sail within five days if it's needed. it is a two to three-day trip then from maryland to haiti. the uss vinson is expected to arrive tomorrow. it left norfolk on its way to assist in relief efforts. and president barack obama is promising to help. >> we've mobilized resources to help rescue efforts. military ovflights have assessed the damage and by early afternoon, our civilian disaster assistance team are beginning to arrive. >> the president says haitians are our neighbors in the americas and here at home. and we have to be there in their hour of need. for more on the science behind an earthquake that occurs in the caribbean, let's go to bob ryan. >> this is the most powerful earthquake to hit haiti in 200 year ss. there are these rays, high-performance instruments. this is from the folks at the international incorporated research institute for seismology. there was the earthquake yesterday and there's an array of very, very delicate instruments that detected the waves that were spread out from that earthquake from haiti. to give you a perspective, let's go back t our maps. here we are in the united states and here we are in washington. haiti is, of course, that very, very impoverished country in hispaniola. there is concern that this fault line, which runs right along there, may -- since there was an earthquake around port-au-prince, there could be future earthquakes in the dominican republic. this is a look at the -- at the epicenter right there, right near port-au-prince. there are some of the other cracks if you will in the earth's crust, those fault lines. this is the boundary between the caribbean plate that was -- that tends to move in one direction against the north american plate. that is the reason for the earthquakes. there could be more in the future. those aftershocks, a category 5 on the richter sdcale. that 7 was the equivalent of a 32 megatons of tnt. that's how much power was released in that earthquake. the state department has set up a hotline for americans who need information about their family in haiti. it is 1-888-407-4747. the u.s. state department says people who want to donate money to relief efforts can text the word "haiti" to 90999 and by doing that, you will incur a $10 charge on your phone bill, but that money will go directly to the red cross. to find a list of credible national and international agencies that have people who can donate to to help the people of haiti, go to nbcwashington.com and search the word "help." there's a lot of scammers out there. make sure you stay with the reputable organizations. coming up, we'll have the story of an american in haiti who pulled his wife out of the rubble where she had been trapped for ten hours. brian williams has now arrived in haiti. he'll be anchoring a special hour-long edition of "nightly news" this evening. it begins at 7:00 immediately after this broadcast coming up tonight, the heads of four big banks were on capitol hill today as lawmakers look into who is to blame for the recession here. google is threatening to end its operations in china over censorship and computer security concerns. the pope today met with a woman who hopped over a barrier and knocked him over during a mass. planet earth had what some would call a close encounter with a foreign object today. we'll tell you what it was. alex ovechkin throws down his gloves because he's ready to fight. the redskins have a new defensive coordinator. and joe bugle calls it a career. these are live pictures from a haiti city. you see aid is starting to arrive after yesterday's earthquake. 3 million people in haiti now need emergency help as a result of this deadly catastrophe. the death toll could be in the thousands. some local grassroots organizations that have focused on poverty in haiti are now stepping up their efforts. there's a high level of concern for the children. jane watrel has our report. >> reporter: these are the faces of children at good samaritan school in port-au-prince, haiti. one 1 150 students who are supported by the efforts of an zaalexandria sponsor. but harry has bn unable to get through, getting only a recording. >> i'm worried because i don't -- i hope those children are still alive. because they live right around the school. and, you know, 150 children in a slum area. i mean, that's where this thing hit yesterday. i'm frantic over it. >> reporter: for $650 a month, the charity feeds students and their features. while he mails such basic supplies as aspirin, rice, and beans. even before the quake struck, he said he's compelled to help after learning that many of the kids were surviving on dirt cookies. >> you take dirt, you put lard and salt in it and you press it down and you set it out in the sun and let it dry all day and then you sell them for two cents apiece. if you can get it. >> reporter: many of those feared killed are aid workers from charities and church groups. the backbone of relf work. local talk show host vghn martin has been trying to call fellow journalists in haiti. he's preparing for a saturday broadcast on the caribbean nation's plight. >> the haitian people have such rich cultural outpourings. i don't know how they d it. i really don't know how they do it. >> reporter: harry hopes to raise as much money as he can as quickly as he can. >> it moves you. you cannot come back from that place without feeling it. well, i've got to do something. well, we can do a lot. you don't need everybody to give millions of dollars. you can just -- if everybody can just give you a little bit, you can do a lot with a little bit. >> reporter: an unfolding crisis that will need worldwide support. jane watrel, news4. >> the commission investigating the wall street meltdown that led to the great recession began its year-long inquiry today. they were demanding answers. >> maybe it's like the murder on the orient express. everyone did it. >> reporter: they all admit they went over board, investing in risky mortgages. >> we were going to bed every night with more risk than any responsible manager should want to have. >> reporter: but the banks say there was an appetite for risk. investors wanted to buy those loans. >> you never saw losses because home prices are going up, people are making money. >> it sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes and then buying insurance policy on the buyer of those cars. >> reporter: economists called it an industry on steroids. >> everybody knew that the end was coming. they didn't know how it was going to come. >> reporter: aig and others got big government bailouts, but these bankers insist they never counted on taxpayers to save them. >> it was never discussed, never thought about. >> reporter: one an last told the financial crisis inquiry commission to prevent another meltdown, the government can no longer consider any bank too big to fail. >> capitalism without bankruptcy is like christianity without hell. there has to be consequences. >> reporter: the commission will hear from hundreds more before issuing their repo in december. those executives who testified today, they'll support more government regulation and they defended their bonus and compensation packages saying most employees who get them were not involved in risky decision-making. from capitol hill, tracie potts, news4, washington. today one of the panelists asked the bankers what they would have done differently. the head of jpmorgan chase said a crucial blunder was the way they missed that housing prices don't go up forever. john mack, the chairman of morgan stanley, added we did eat our cooking and we choked on it. despite all the bad press for financial firms, bank stocks did well today and that helped push the dow up 53 points. it closed at 10,680. the nasdaq ended a two-day losing streak with a 25-point gain. 2,307 was the closing there. the s&p gained nine points. it finished the day at 1,145. google is threatening to pull out of china because of differences in censorship. google created its china search engine in 2006, but angered advocates by agreeing to exclude those links that were blocked by government censors. a number of attacks against their search engine were based in china. those attacks included attempts to breach the gmail accounts of some chinese human rights activists. google officials said they will no longer censor search results in china and may leave the country altogether. the pope has forgiven the woman who knocked him over during christmas eve mass. a spokesman for the vatican says pope benedict met with the woman and her relatives today. the pope asked about her health and wanted to demonstrate his forgiveness, we're told. the young woman is italian-swiss in heritage. she told the pontiff she was sorry. she jumped a security banner in st. peter's basilica on christmas eve. she knocked the pope to the ground. he was not injured. still ahead, we'll tell you about a mystery space object that came pretty close to earth today. bob has our forecast coming up. and we'll continue our coverage of the earthquake and the aftermath of haiti. planet earth had a really close encounter with some kind of foreign object today. it came within 80,000 miles of earth, which in space terms is awfully close. scientists say had it hit t would not have caused much damage because it was small. 33 to 50 feet wide at most. scientists are stumped by what exactly it is. it may be space junk or it could be ainy asteroid. >> wouldn't it have burned up in the atmosphere? >> i wouldn't mind having that falling on top of me. yeah. a lot of it would have burned up. nice show. we had a good show in the atmosphere today. >> yeah. >> nothing burning up. well, warming up tsiday our tem finally de it up into the 40s. a lot of sunshine after those morning clouds. and it will be a night again below freezing. any of those wet spots refreezing. watch out for that early tomorrow morning when we still have that late sunrise. our temperature today, the warmest day we've had so far this year. how often will we be able to say that? 44 degrees. it was 44 also on january 1st. our temperature now is still above freezing. nice clear starry sky. that bright object -- one is jupiter and the other is mars. the reddish object that you'll see in the southeastern sky. do we have the temperatures? i think we do. our temperature, 41 degrees. not even a windchill to talk about. look at the temperatures around the country. they love it in bismarck. think it's warm here? bismarck, 40 degrees. wichita l of these areas that were under the middle of that surge of cold air,chicago, 7 degrees warmer than it was. st. louis is 16 degrees warmer than it was yesterday. wichita, kansas, also 10, 15 degrees warmer than it was. and you can see that big area of dry air. here's the overall jet pattern. going to be moving to our north. cloudiness down in the gulf of mexico where it's been so cold. with the tracks now beginning to change, any of that would be coming our way with some milder air. so i think we'll be seeing some rain as we get into sunday. rain. not snow. there is still some lingering snow flurries up to our north. nothing in and around us, nor will there be the next couple of days, even out in the mountains of west virginia, which had been seeing snow day after day. finally, even the lake-effect snow machine is beginning to wind down. light snow around providence and also vermont and a little bit still on the ground maybe here and there. 36 right now in fredericksburg. low 30s around montgomery county. you folks would be in the teens tomorrow. overnight tonight, there's that area of high pressure that will continue to move to our south rather than coming our way to -- from the north. as it moves off the coast, we'll get into more of a westerly wind. there will be some little lake-effect snows, but eve there there could be some sprinkles as a bit of moisture from that developing area of storminess to the south comes in as we get into thursday and friday. so it really is a pretty dramatic change in the pattern. temperatures tomorrow in the mid-40s. look to our south where it's been so cold in georgia and florida. temperatures in the 50s. then into friday, i think we'll be joining the 50s and it will be near 60 degrees with a real january thaw as we head into what is on average the coldest and continue to be in the coldest time of the year. overnight tonight, temperatures will be into the low to mid-30s. and then tomorrow morning when you get up and head out after the starry skies, new moon out there. there's no moon. it will be cold and it will be below freezing. we have th sunrise at 7:25. we're gaining light now in the morning and a lot in the evening. we've gained in the evening about 20 minutes since early december. once again tomorrow, i think just about wall-to-wall sunshine. temperatures tomorrow with a light southerly wind. mid to high 40s. a bit above average. average high is 42 trees. and the next seven days we'll be seeing a lot more of the same. into friday and saturday, a few clouds may come in, but temperatures near 50 degrees. the nighttime will be near the freezing mark. there's that chance of some rain coming in on sunday and the way the storminess looks right now, it will be lingering a little bit into chilly showers, perhaps monday morning. might start as sleet, but certainly not any threat of a winter nastiness or the winter no-noes. and a bit -- we're breaking this cold pattern. that's for sure. >> thank you, bob. coming up, we continue our report from that earthquake in haiti. >> we'll look back at the crash of air florida flight 90. it crashed in the potomac river 28 years ago today. we'll have the report on some of the issues at virginia's general assembly this year. we'll tell you about a supreme court case involving the national football league that could have an affect on fans. host: could switching to geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance? host: did the waltons take way too long to say goodnight? mom: g'nightohn boy. g'night mary ellen. mary ellen: g'night mama. g'night erin. elizabeth: g'night john boy. jim bob: g'night grandpa. elizabeth: g'night ben. jim bob: elizabeth: g'night jim bob. jim bob: g'night everybody, grandpa: g'night everybody. jim bob: g'night daddy. vo: geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more. we continue now our reporting on that devastating earthquake in haiti. >> the united nations chief says the death toll from yesterday's tragedy will be in the thousands but some officials in haiti are talking about even bigger numbers. the u.n. itself has dozens of its staff are dead or missing. only 100 of the 45,000 americans living in haiti have verified that they are alive. bodies are piling up in the streets. some homes, government buildings, hospitals were destroyed or seriously damaged. a prison collapsed. the inmates got free. they're on the loose. and help from around the world continues to stream into the country. there are so many ways that people are remembering the victims of this tragedy her in the district. a vigil was held at howard university today where students and the community came together to mourn. john was there and he joins us now. >> that's right. it was an emotional service. students really came together. the message today at howard university, their haitian students are not alone. as the bells tolled across the campus, mournings filed into the chapel to find comfort and support. for many of the haitian students t was an important event and it let them know they're not alone. >> it helps a lot to know that there are people that care what goes on in a foreign country, in a third-world country. it helps a lot to know that we have people that have us in their prayers and hoping for the best for us as well. >> reporter: the president of howard's haitian student association let the crowd know that she is there for anyone to talk to but admitted that will be tough because she too has a heavy heart. >> i lost two friends this morning. and i just thought this was a whole nightmare. but i got up and this is real. and i just -- my parents -- i just spoke to my dad two days ago and now i can't found him. >> reporter: her father worked in the capital of haiti, port-au-prince, just miles from the epicenter of the earth quake. here calls have not gotten through to her family and fear set in when she saw this image of the national palace. >> all i could think about was my house cannot be standing. or anything else. >> reporter: because it's taking the students so long to hear back from their family members, they're using other forms of technology to reach out, through facebook and text messages. on the facebook page you can see there's already an emergency meeting set up for tonight. also, this message is being sent asking anyone to text yele to 501501. that will donate $5 to the yele haiti foundation. the student association is set to meet in a few hours. there's no plan for the relief efforts just yet, but students say the word is out and they expect a lot of people to attend and help out the cause. jim? >> thanks, john. the health system is sending doctors and nurses to haiti tonight. the doctors are working with a northern virginia non-profit group called community coalition for haiti. they'll focus on helping children and they'll include about 20 doctors, nurses and specialists from fairfax hospital for children. >> right now we're coordinating with the other government agencies with fema, usaid, the u.s. consulate. we're trying not to duplicate efforts, which is, as you said, always the case. but certainly our focus right now is children. >> the teams of doctors are leaving this weekend. they'll go to a children's hospital near the epicenter of the quake. we're told it was severely damaged. the death toll is staggering. there are stories of survival starting to emerge. one of them comes from a former nbc4 intern named frank thorpe jr. he has been working as a missionary in haiti. frank was about 100 miles away from port-au-prince. he didn't realize it was that serious. he got a short phone call from his wife, jillian, who told him she was trapped under a foot of rubble. frank made the six-hour drive through the night to the capital. when he arrived, he discovered a frantic effort to try to free his wife from the rubble. >> we dug a hole through the concrete hole of the ceiling where they were caught. i pulled her out. it took them hours and hours. she was therein for ten hours. it was such a relief to get her out. it was an extremely emotional time. jillian is doing okay. she has some major bruises and she's having a hard time walking. there was another person trapped with her that broke his leg. there was another staff member here who we think actually -- she lost both of her legs. it's worse than a war zone. it's thousands and thousands of haitians on the streets because their buildings and their houses have collapsed and they can't live in them. we've been woken up throughout the night by women who are screaming because they found their children in the rubble. every other building has collapsed. it's just a horrible scene. there are dead people. there are people dying on the streets. there are injured on the streets. there are so many people here that need help. it's absolutely horrible. >> the state department has set up a hotline for american whose need information about family in haiti. that number is 1-888-407-4747. the u.s. state department says people who want to donate money to relief efforts can text the word "haiti" to 90999. by doing that, a $10 charge will be placed on your phone bill. that $10 will go directly to the red cross. brian williams has just arrived in haiti. he will be anchoring "nightly news" this evening which beginning at 7:00 immediately following our broadcast. some other news now, the 427th session of the maryland general assembly got under way today. lawmakers are forced to grapple with one of the toughest budget challenges in years. the state is facing a $2 billion deficit. that means lawmakers will have to make some tough decisions over the next three months. decisions which will likely include program cuts to help close the gap. martin o'malley is placing high priority on education, but tuition at state-run colleges and universities will be increased. lawmakers also will be tackling issues related to public safety, energy, and job creation. >> we've got to continue to make progress. i wish there were some magic way out of this or some magic way around it. there's not. the only way is through it with strong leadership, with tough decisions and with progress in public safety and public education. that will carry us out of this recessi recession. >> the governor is expected to unveil his proposed budget next week. down in virginia, lawmakers there are facing similar challenges. julie carey has that story. >> reporter: as the house and senate gavelled opened the 2010 session, the mood is decidedly grim as virginia lawmakers begin to confront a daunting deficit. >> we have to take an additional $4 billion in cuts. we've already done 7.5 billion. >> reporter: the budget closes the gap but it contains a proposed 1% state income tax hike. the republican governor-elect bob mcdonald rejects it. rather than mcdaunld will leave the job to the general assembly. >> there's a great opportunity to make some serious systemic reforms, to look at the things we're doing. >> reporter: when education was spared, this time even it will likely be slashed. democrats say their job will be to stand in the way of measures that cut too deep. >> we've got to make sure that our most vulnerable vit zns are protected. we have to get people back to work. >> reporter: republicans say another chief concern for them is possibly blocking federal mandates that arise from pending health care reform legislation. bob marshall will push back with the bill that would bar the feds from punishing citizens or businesses for failing to buy health insurance. >> what's going on up there is an attempt to shift my status from citizen to a servant. they're the kings, we're the subject. we take orders. that's not the way this constitution was founded. >> this session is scheduled to adjourn in march, but there's speculation about lawmakers will able to finish their difficult work by then. some say any talk of a transportation fix will have to wait until a special session. in richmond, julie carey, news4. coming up tonight, we'll tell you about a smoupreme cour case involving the national football league. the ruling could affect ticket prices and player salaries. we'll look back at the crash of flight 90 that crashed 28 years ago today. and we continue our reports on that deadly earthque in haiti. it was 28 years ago today that washington was dealing with a devastating plane crash in the potomac river. 1982, 78 people died when air florida flight 90 crashed in the middle of a horrible blizzard. it took off from national airport with ice on the wings. it shuttered, never gained altitude and then slammed into the 14th street bridge not far from the pentagon and into the water, sinking to the bottom. four passengers and one flight attendant survived the crash and the nation was riveted as they were rescued from the water on television. the national transportation safety board pointed to improper deicing as the primary cause of that crash. the supreme court today heard a case involving the national football league. a hat manufacturer is accusing the nfl of anticompetitive business practices. experts believe the outcome of this case could have a big impact on fans. brian oar has our report. >> reporter: is the nfl one business or a collection of competing businesses? 32 teams that have to play by the nation's antitrust rule book. the supreme court today served as referee in a showdown between the league and american needle, the headwear manufacturer claiming the nfl violated ls when it signed an exclusive ten-year agreement with reebok. there's far more at stake than just deciding who makes team hats. >> some have said that this is perhaps the biggest sports case ever. >> reporter: a win could give the nfl sweeping powers to set prices on anything from ticket costs to player salaries. and it could apply to other pro sports as well. >> they said even they could fix the prices of the sale of their independent franchises and you've got a remark from one of the justices. the comment was wow. >> reporter: inside the courtroom, greg levy argued that selling team gear is really just about promoting the game, the very reason the league exists. >> the nfl teams aren't independent. if it werefron't for the league the teams would have no value. they'd have no purpose. >> reporter: several of the justices seem skeptical. sotomayor questioned whether the league wasn't rolle jue really g to win the antitrust exemption it couldn't get from congress. >> a ruling in favor of the nfl could lead to a strike and a work stoppage by the players union, which has sided with the hat-making company in this case. what's going on? >> alex ovechkin, a rare -- the almost rumble. almost giving fans a very rare sight. the detroit pistons could not wait to play the wizards. we'll show you why. plus, an emotional good-bye as joe bugle calls it quits. if there's anybody in this town who represents the old skins and the glory days like we so fondly remember them, it's got to be joe bugle. and now he's gone. >> yeah. he's riding off into the sunset. kind of that last piece, you know, of all those great memories that we have. joe bugle's retirement press conference, definitely from the heart. but isn't everything when it comes to bugle? he called it quits after 32 seasons in the nfl. if you remember he was the head coach for the raiders and the cardinals, but he loves being a redskin. bugle praised owner dan snyder and showed off one of his super bowl rings saying his only regret was that he did not get another one during joe gibbs' second stint in washington. it was quite an affair. several current redskins' offensive linemen and the original hogs were on hand. one of the hogettes even made an appearance. bugle talked about the good old days when he won two super bowls. he told stories about one of his mentors who told him it was okay to punch a player in the belly because he wouldn't punch you back. now 70 years old, bugle said it was time to just enjoy the good life. >> it's tough to walk away. it's tough to walk away. but after 32 years, it's been a privilege to coach in the national football league. 15 of thems a redskin. as a redskin. i love this organization. i will always love this organization because we have a lot of fond memories. joe called me up and said, remember our second tour? i promised you we weren't going to work those obnoxious hours. we ended up working unil5:00 in the morning. >> he's a tough guy. he reminded me of the trainer of rocky balboa. he's just a tough guy. he wou never let up off of you. he's been through some tough things with his family, but he continued to show up to work aerb day. just shows a lot about his character. >> i love the players. and again, if you can't tell somebody you love them, you don't belong in the game. because i coached some players. that were just no-names that just got better and better and better and better. the tougher we treated thel, the more they loved you. >> being in the offensive line room with the door closed and he starts throwing things at you and you see these very large linemen hiding underneath the chairs while he was just throwing stuff at us. yeah, he's the best. just the best. >> we're going to live the good life. but i'm always going to be a redskin, see. i'm waiting for that phone to call and say, hey, why don't you come back and see a game. thank you, mr. snyder. >> he talked to some reporters afterwards. somebody asked him, what is your favorite memory? he says, i remember a practice way back in the day and russ grim just felt terrible. he said grim actually threw up one entire hot dog, picked it up off the ground, brushed it off and ate the whole thing again. he said everybody was like oh, my gosh. he's a neanderthal. >> thanks for sharing, dan. >> oh, man. >> i thought that was -- i hope nobody is eating out there. >> well, they're not now. >> oh, man. that was crazy. >> that is crazy. >> i just -- i thought i'd share that with you guys. >> thank you, dan. >> one of bugle's favorite, chris samuels, said he'll have one more checkup on his neck condition and make a decision after that. bobby turner has accepted a position with the redskins. and lieu spano has agreed to begun the linebackers coach with the redskins. he coached for three years under jim hazlett in pittsburgh. hazlett has a very impressive resume that includes a six-year run as the head coach in new orleans. he does have experience with that three-four defense which is something mike shanahan is thinking about running here in washington. hazlett is the new defensive coordinator for the redskins. could be a vastly different look than we're used to seeing. last night's penalty-filled affair in tampa bay will go down as a 7-4 loss for the caps, but it will be remembered as the night that ovi was ready to fight but he didn't have to. he dropped his gloves but he didn't have to do a thing. matt bradley stepped in to defend the best player in the world. alex ovechkin, certainly the center of controversy in this one. after going down 4-1, caps fight back on the power play. mike grown rips one from the point right here. caps tied it 4-4 on green's second goal of the game. but that good feeling was short-lived. the lightning would add three more goals, including this one. tampa bay with a three-on-one. lecavalier to halpern and the lightning take a 7-4 lead. later in the period, watch this closely. going to the bench to get another stick, ovi circles around and goes for steve downie. downey barely gets out of the way and he's not happy at all. he sneaks in a punch there to ovechkin. both players sent to the penalty box. when they come out of the box, check out downie. spokes ovi with his stick. both guys drop their gloves but look out, here comes matt bradley swooping in. you can't drop the gloves when you're the best player in the world. you've got to defend your superstar. that's what bradley did. he was given a penalty for coming off the bench to start the fight, but that was an incorrect call. bradley sticking up for his superstar. that's good to see. you know, you would think with all the turmoil surrounding the wizards, games would actually be kind of like an escape. the one place where players and coaches can forget about problems off the court. for that theory to work, you have to win. something to wizards have not done a lot of this season. they sink to 12-24 after losing to the pistons last night. a team that had lost 13 straight. flip saunders feeling like he's rearranging deck chairs on the titanic at this point, i think. off the pistons miss, randy foye grabs the rebound. he is going coast-to-coast all the way. randy foye filling in for gilbert arenas and he's filling in nicely. a double-double last night for foye. in the second quarter, check this out. ben wallace. finishing the oop from rip hamilton. a pair of former wizards. third quarter. antoine jamison, off the skip pass. driving. a little double clutch lay-up there. 31 points as the wizards cut the lead to just one point. in the fourth, the wizards' defense failing one more time. rodney stuckey finds a cutting richard hamilton. good pass. takes it in. pistons snap their 13-game losing streak. 99-90. the wizards lose their second in a row. >> i would love to have a beer with michael jordan one day and ask him what the hell was he thinking when he got rid of rip hamilton. what was up there that? >> maybe m.j. wanted to take more shots. >> yeah. >> thanks, man. still ahead, a recap of the story we've been following, the deadly earthquake in haiti. we have the latest out of haiti. new video is make its way out. survivors of the earthquake have no food, no water and nowhere to go but the streets. there's great fear that the number of deaths will number in the tens of thousands. only 100 of the 45,000 americans living in haiti have verified so far that they're alive. m help from around the world is pouring in to haiti now. now that the airport in port-au-prince has been determined to be functional. the state department has set up a hotline for american whose need information about family members in haiti. that number is 1-888-407-4747. the u.s. state department says people who want to donate money to relief efforts can text the word "haiti" to 90999. by doing that, you will incura $10 charge of your phone bill. that $10 will go to the red cross. brian williams is in haiti now. he'll be anchoring a special hour-long edition of "nightly news" this evening that begins at 7:00. >> let's get a final check from bob. >> that earthquake, wendy and jim, about six miles deep under the surface of haiti. and it had the power of about 30 to 40 million tons of dynamite, tnt. even the aftershocks have great power, great power. thousands of tonsf tnt. our skies are clear. temperatures right now are into the 40s heading out for school tomorrow morning it will be some spots into the0s. certainly not as cold as it has been. 27 degrees right here. and then tomorrow we'll be up into the mid-40s with a lot of sunshine. next seven days, we'll be seeing that temperature trend continue. and the next time we do anything, i think would be some chilly rains coming in on sunday. after that, cool nights, but sort of average days for next week. back to you. >> thanks, bob. ts