another chaotic commute home for drivers while snow is still being removed from major routes all over the area. when drivers aren't sitting in traffic, they're trying to avoid potholes. it's going to cost more to ride metro later this month. the transit agency now is talking about raising rates again for the summer. it's being described as a deliberate act, a small, single-engine plane slammed into an office building in texas, destroying two floors and triggering a massive blaze. good evening. i'm doreen gentzler. >> i'm jim vance. a guy was mad at the irs and the catholic church and a bunch of other people as well. he got a plane and crashed it into the building. that building is occupied by irs offices. nearly 200 federal tax employees work there. authorities say two people were injured in the crash today. they say that one person is still missing. it is not clear yet exactly why the person did it. he did leave behind a rambling manifesto and he put his date of birth and date of death on it. >> due to safety concerns, police have t media staged on the other side of the highway, but the building behind me is completely destroyed. there's still smoke coming out and almost all the windows have been blown out. right now, firefighters are here trying to put out hot spots. a routine thursday morning turned into a nightmare. >> it might have been a horror show in there. >> reporter: a small engine plane slammed into an office building in texas shortly after 10:00 a.m. local time. witnesses say the plane appeared to be at full power on a direct path towards the building just moments before impact. >> it sure was hauling. oh, man. it was a really speedy dive. it whacked right between the first and second floor, echelon three. >> reporter: thea massive fireball. >> there was a lot of gasoline that hit those people. the flying glass. >> reporter: only two people were injured. one suffering burns. the other smoke inhalation. neither are considered life-threatening. as people rushed to escape the building, questions over what happened were quickly coming together. a nearby house fire led police to the identity of the pilot. police say andrew joseph stack, a software engineer and licensed pilot, set his house on fire, leaving behind his wife and 12-year-old daughter. both rescued by neighbors without injury. stack then took to the sky from a nearby local airport, piloting his plane directly into a north austin office building, home to an irs office. raising speculation this was an intentional act by stack. >> the aircraft maintained a constant speed in a constant direction right into the building. >> reporter: evidence of stack's destructive mindset came from a manife manifesto stack wrote and published on his website. in it, stack rails against the irs, writing, this act of patrtism cost me $40,000 and ten years of my life. to survive, i was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement and they left me to rot and die. no investigators will sift through the wreckage of this plane as well as stack's life to try and figure out what led to this apparent deliberate violent act. that website where stack posted his manifesto has been pulled from the web by request of the fbi. now we're being told that the s ntsb is on their way here to take over this investigation. kim fisher, nbc. back to you. >> all right. kim, thank you. it's still not business as usual in our area after two big blizzards. snow is still being cleared from major routes. commers are heading to and from work, spending more time on the road. and schools are trying to make up all those snow days. we have team coverage on this tonight. we begin with julie carey. >> every school district has a plan for snow days and almost all have long since used up their allotment. now they struggle with how to make up lost instructional time without setting off a huge public outcry. it's 3:20 and school is out at fairfax county's chesterbrook elementary, but the dismissal bell could soon come a half hour later if the school board decides to lengthen the school day. it's one of several auntions being weighed here, as well as adding days to the end of the year. >> if we look at making up days, then we potentially go later in june than a lot of people want to and it interferes with vacation. >> reporter: school districts are look at different options for making up lost time and reaching the 990 hours per school year required by the state. while fairfax county, alexandria and stafford counties are all considering a longer day, arlington county will do away with early dismissals, convert conference days to regular days and turn teacher work days into a school day. stafford is looking at those options, too. but for loudoun county, the problem is solved. they already have a longer day and require no makeup. in fairfax county, there seems to be little agreement about the best option. some parents fear a longer day would be too taxing. >> i think that's true. it's very -- it's a long day and there's a lot of -- they have homework and extracurricular activities. so really t ideal thing to me would be to extend monday to make that a full day. >> i don't know that a longer day necessarily helps anybody learn any better. >> reporter: other parents welcome makeup time at the end of the year or even during spring break, something that's not under consideration. >> i'd rather have them add the two days at the end of the year. >> no spring break. they should make it. otherwise i think -- i don't know how they're going to do it. if they give them spring break. >> reporter: in the maryland suburb, school officials wait a decision from the stateoard of education about whether some or all of the snow days can be waived and not made up. >> the calendar that was passed by the board of education last year would add those days to the end of the school year. now, the unknown right now is with the state board of education waive some of those days? >> reporter: the district of columbia will announce its plan next week. another concern right now, upcoming standardized tests. virginia and maryland school districts hope some tests can be delayed so students can make up for lost time. state officials are also considering those requests. back to you now. >> julie carey, thank you. tonight, conditions on the roads are in many areas no better than they we last night. it is down-right frustrating out there for many commuters. chris gordon has been riding around d.c. during the rush hour this evening. he's got more on all of this. chris? >> riding around, stop-and-go to say the best. we're being driven today by rick higgins. we're on independence avenue. it's just a lot of brake lights. th is a main commuter route for people trying to get home to virginia or up to maryland, to rock creek park, the freeway. it's not stop-and-go. it's just stop right now. we talked to some people, the same story applies to the gw parkway, 95, 66. talked to some people in rosalind, virginia. they feel they're justw wasting time. >> because of the snow and the congestion on the highways, the george washington rkway has been a very tough commute coming from maryland. >> reporter: how much time do you think you wasted this week? >> on the average, i've wasted almost 12 hours. >> it's really creating high anxiety. by the time you get to work, you're so worried about the commute home and, you know, missing work, being late for work. it's just a real problem. >> it's a real problem. it's a real frustration for so many people as you see here for people on independence avenue. we've gone about one mile in the past ten minutes or so. we'd be lucky to get through the next cycle of a light. where they usually expect to wait one or two cycles to get through a red light, now it's taking eight, nine, ten cycles. people come from other areas where there is a lot of snow say why is it taking so long? eight days after the major snowfall, for the district to get cleared out? where are the police officers directing traffic to get us through? and there's an emergency vehicle and they get slowed by the traffic backups. this is a realtime look. we're bringing this to you. but we thought we'd try to get out in it and just feel the frustration of -- of trying to get through traffic, trying to get home. it's been this way all week since the federal government opened, since schools started agn. and motorists have returned to work. back to you. >> thanks, chris. we can see chris isn't moving on independence avenue. let's get a check on the other roads in our area. how is it looking, ashley? >> i don't have any good news to bring you. we have big delays. 95 has been a nasty commute this evening. serious accident activity at 7100 is causing these delays. look at that. main and hov, slammed. as you leave the beltway headed down in towards 71. along the far left of your screen, a lot of people trying to work their way along the side routes to try to avoid 95. it's just there's no real relief in sight. the only good news about this accident is that it's gotten things bottle-necked so much so that the pace has improved. a little bit, the consolation prize. how about the capitol beltway? the inner loop is the headlights. that'ser going to continue headed over toward the 95 interchange. this right here, we're looking at the beltway at new hampshire avenue. big, big delays. it's just slow and steady. most of the snow has been cleared, but on the ltway itself, that's not the case as you make the exits on to georgia avenue. this is the pace at connecticut avenue. the inner loop is those brake lights continuing toward silver spring. particularly nasty ramp is going to be the exit from the outer loop on to northbound georgia. georgia has got a lot of snow along the right side of the roadway. that is just hampering the commute for drivers trying to get off of the beltway and continue towards georgia. doreen and jim, back to you. >> all right. thank you. coming up tonight at 6:30, the snow isn't just a problem for drivers in our area. tom sherwood shows us how large snowbanks are affecting local businesses. somebody apparently murdered a woman in prince george's county last night. the woman's body was found outside the cheltenham youth facility. they found it this morning. police say her body was in a secluded area outside a building that is separate from the facility's main fenced-in building. police say the victim worked there but they have not released any other details on her identity, nor have they said specifically how that woman was killed. and police in prince george's country looking for the driver who hit and killed a pedestrian and then drove off this morning. it happened about 6:00 a.m. in the 3,000 block of branch avenue in suitland. police say 32-year-old asa fukahara was walking in the road because the sidewalk was covered with snow and ice. that's when a driver struck him and took off. police don't have a good description of the car or driver. he was an engineer at the usda. he was on his way to work when he was killed. metro riders will be paying more for their trips starting later this month. but that's only to help the system pay the bills for this year. now metro is also talking about raising fares to meet the budget for next year. on the table right now, a 15% increase in rail fares as well as a ten-cent surcharge at the height of rush hour. that would make the base fares between $1.65 and $1.90. bus fares would go up to $1.50. public hearings are set for april. if approved, those increases would start in july. coming up tonight, potholes all over the place. happens every time this time of year. we'll show you what local road crews are doing. questions about the city's trash collection efforts after the last two blizzards. the dalai lama is visiting the white house. he apparently enjoys a little snow. tiger woods won't break his silence until tomorrow, but today the pga tour is welcoming him back. how about the weather, bob? >> we're welcoming back some sunshine today, jim and doreen. tonight, another chilly one. and a couple more days of melting. there is another storm lurking out there. there was more explosive testimony today at the trial of renee bowman, the women accused of killing two of her adopted daughters. today her cellmate took the stand. pat collins is at the courthouse in rockville with the latest. pat? >> doreen, in the renee bowman case today, we heard interesting things from her landlord. and then explosive testimony from renee bowman's secellmate. she's an ex-conwho did time for third' degree sex offenses. she was a cellmate of renee bowman and today she told a jury that bowman confessed to her. what did she say she did to her children? >> she tortured them. she burned them with cigarettes. she just smothered -- her words were she smothered them. >> reporter: did you get anything from the police or prosecutors for testifying today? >> nothing. nothing. there wasn't anything. >> reporter: this is michael bromley. he w renee bowman's landlord when she lived in this house in rockville. he says while she was living there, she was a good tenant. >> she used to send me father's day cards every year. she sent me birthday cards every year. and she put a note in with her rent check that -- thanking me for letting her live a better life. >> reporter: when renee bowman moved out of this house in 2007, mr. broml said he went inside to inspect it. he said someone had tampered with a bedroom door. >> we were very concerned about it. also, the water in the upstairs bathroom was cut off. the valves had been shut off. the shower hadn't been used for a long, long time. so we were starting to think to ourselves that something weird went on here. >> reporter: the prosecutor, john mccarthy, says that bowman imprisoned her three adopted daughters in the bedroom of that house and then later killed two of her three adopted children and stored them in a freezer in the basement of the house. now, bowman is charged with two counts of murder, three counts of first-degree child abuse. the trial continues tomorrow. doreen? >> pat collins reporting from rockville. thank you, pat. it is difficult not to notice all the mounds of snow across the area. they even caught the attention today of the dalai lama. he was walking toward the press corps waiting for him in the white house driveway this morning. he paused, lent down, stuck his finger in the snow, walked a few more feet and then he did it again. there's word that he even threw some snow at thepress. the dalai lama spoke to reporters after meeting with president obama. tiger woods hasn't made it official yet, but if he does return to golf, the pga appears ready to welcome him back. woods is expected to speak in public tomorrow for the first time since an accident last noveer that led to revelations of infidelity and a temporary leave from golf. his agent says woods will apologize and discuss plans for his future. >> i'm glad to hear that he's -- i think this is maybe the beginning of the comeback. >> we want him to come back and play as soon as possible. >> tiger's wife, elin, is also telling her story in theit issu of "people" magazine set to hit stands tomorrow. snow in the streets and on the sidewalks as we noted is still a big problem. we'll show you how it's impacting local business. and while we're still thawing out here, a tornado is caught on tape in australia. and bohas our forecast coming up. it is summer down in australia, and in the summertime you often get tornadoes. that's what happened as a tornado ripped through a family's farm in australia. people who live there grabbed their video camera when they saw the funnel cloud begin to form. that twister destroyed crops. it sent parts of a tractor spinning through the air. fortunately, nobody in that family was injured. >> that's good ws. >> yes t is. bob is here with aook at our weather forecast. a lot of melting. a whole lot of melting. >> yes. that sunshine helped, too. that looked like what a lot of folks in the midpart of the country see as what's called a land spout, which is sort of a -- not the same exact mechanism as a tornado but it's sort of a combination of a dust devil and that also can do some damage. it's sort of a -- it's a different funnel cloud that appears. nature accomplishes what it does in a number of different ways. and outside today, it was a bit of melting. these shots are from rock creek. the one thing we, of course, do not want to have is have everything melt rapidly. remember back in the '90s when we had that bissnow and then the big rain on top of it? the next time we see anything, it's likely to be a little bit wet. a few more days of melting. this is so far -- so far we may get down to freezing by midnight, but the low temperatures so far, 34 degrees. the first d this month we haven't had the temperature below freezing. we had a lot of clouds around yesterday. look at our current temperatures right now. we're at 40 in washington. in the low 40s, you folks down there into southern maryland and already in the northern neck seeing some of the -- those will be the first spots to finally see bare ground. on the other hand, around washington, the temperatures in the mid-30s. there's nothing on doppler. this was a picture from the polar orbiting tera satellite. there you see that bare ground. there's the northern neck just on the tip. you can see that it is bare there there. long island around us, still very snow-covered with the clouds. the other good thing is that for the storm pattern out west, taking a lot of this moisture now way up toward alaska. look how clear and sunny it has been today and again tomorrow in vancouver for the olympics. that means clear, cold nights and sunshine during the daytime. here's the pattern that we've had with the cold air continuing to come in and aroun us. that's part of what's called that arctic oscillation where high pressures and low pressures tend to affect the pattern. then the southern branch has been very active because of an el nino. the combination of the two has been bringing this unusually persistent and stormy weather pattern, winter weather pattern. not only us but for a wide area. in the meantime, overnight tonight, no storms coming. we'll see northwesterly winds again tomorrow. still a bit on the breezy side. once again, sunshine and finally out in the mountains of west virginia, the snows will be ending. there's more than four feet on the ground in many areas. there some moisture beginning to come our way. the next one will be a track a little bit more to our north. but nonenonetheless, it's possi we could be also seeing a little bit of iciness. but that's not until monday. tomorrow, temperatures 42 degrees. so look for a cold morning. temperatures with the clear skies. isn't it nice to be seeing that sun earlier and earlier going to work? mid to high 20s. tomorrow afternoon into the mid-40s. sunset tomorrow, we're closing in on 6:00. saturday and sunday, partly to mostly sunny skies. there is that next area of storminess on monday. it will be coming in probably late sunday night into monday. here's how it looks. after that we still stay cold into the middle part of next week. my odds of 60% chae at it we'll see at least some snow. i want to use that at the onset. right now, i think there's a 50/50 chance that that will be changing to either a mixture of freezing rain and then eventually to rain, especially to the south. and only right now a 10% to 20% chance that we really have to worry about any major storminess come monday. in the meantime, it's four days away, too. a lot can happen. there's no sign that this one is going to be anything like the last two. back to you. >> all right. >> thanks, bob. coming up tonight, potholes. their are all over the place. and the xrus are out trying to fix them up. d.c. mayor fenty gets defensive about the city's trash removal efforts after the blizzards. also, a local university is apologizing to applicants after a big error in the admissions office. more now on our top story. drivers and pedestrians struggling to get around huge snowbanks still left behind by the recent snowstorms. >> tom sherwood took a drip around the district today and joins us now from northwest d.c. to tell us more about that. tom, where are you? >> i'm here on wisconsin avenue north of tenley circle. traffic jams caused by too much snow don't just cost motorists time and money. it hurts small businesses, too. at this music shop on wisconsin avenue near tenley circle, the owner is stunned at a key lane of this commuter route that's seen no plow. >> the people who come to my store, i have music lessons. lots and lots of music lessons. you can't imagine the number of parents who are calling me saying, i'm one block away. i can't get there. the traffic is so bad i'm going to have to cancel the lesson. >> reporter: after news4's inquiry, work crews began clearing some lanes of wisconsin and plan to get the remainder before the a.m. rush hour. >> if we miss one block of snow, then all the clearing we've done behind it is pretty meaningless. >> reporter: d.c.'s director of transportation riding with nbc4 said that crew reports that wisconsin was clear were inaccurate. he's checking on what happened. >> we missed a few blocks and that's unfortunate. we shouldn't. >> reporter: a news4 review of several major arteries in the city showed mostly plowed and cleared streets. but many piles of snow that suddenly appear and stymie motorists. 50 to 70 inches of snow in a short period outstrips the city's basic planning and more contingency plans may be needed. >> my personal feeling is that the best thing for the taxpayers would be to have plans for this level of snow, but not necessarily to permanently ramp up to a level to be ready to clear 70 inches of snow. >> city officials tell us work crews are still doing those is 1 2-hour shifts on the streets to get rid of this snow. but wisconsin avenue, this lane going into town really needs to be cleared by tomorrow morning or it will be a real mess again. >> it's really bad out there. thanks, tom. the leftover snow is complicating the city's trash collection effort. yor fenty got a little pickly when he was second about it this morning. he appeared on "connecting with the mayor." >> i don't know when to expect the trash. what i need to do because i haven't been told what the process is so i can make sure that my trash is picked up. it's been two weeks and i have three kids and it piling up to high heaven. >> you work for channel 4 news. we have had probably 24 press conferences. the last 20 of them, we have said to put the trash in front of your house. i don't know how in the world the reporters could not have gotten that information. >> we did that and they never showed up. it was unsightly so we just -- the trucks weren't coming so we put it back because we didn't want the rats the come out to the front. it's bad enough in the back. >> mayor fenty acknowledged that there may have been streets that were missed and said if that is the case, he apologizes. he says d.c. residents should put their trash out in front of their houses on their usual trash collection day. now that some of the snow is being cleared away and some of it is melting, we have the potholes. they are becoming a huge problem for motorists all over the area. the crews are out working hard trying to fill them all in, but they pop up quicker than they ever get filled up. john schriffen is out with more on this story now. john? >> as if drivers don't have enough problems to deal with tonight, all of the traffic, the black ice, the snow mounds still sticking around, well, we can now add potholes to that list. aaa says they usually start showing up at springtime, but with the bad weather we've been having, the potholes are popping up ahead of schedule. it's the sound no driver likes to hear. that thud when the road suddenly gives way to a pothole. drivers we spoke to say they've been popping up at an alarming rate. so many that they're hard to avoid. >> it's awful. it's awful. i feel like my car is going to break down any minute. >> it feels like you just went to the bottom of the earth and your car is going to explode and you don't know where your wheel is. >> reporter: vdot says potholes are caused by the bad weather that we've had. water seeps into the pavement and at night it refreezes, causing cracks leading to these gaping holes in the road. >> a lot of the major artees, 236, braddock road, 50, 29, they've all got major potholes. >> d.c. has quite a lot. pockets on reno road, wisconsin avenue every once in a while, coming on to river road from little falls. with the snow, then it's trickier. >> reporter: the potholes can also put a dent in your wallet. the store manager says he's seen an increase in cars brought in due to pothole damage. >> all of a sudden it's ait, hitting it hard. it's damaging the struts, damage the link, it could actually bend something, it could damage the wheel. by damaging the tire. i mean, it's possible. anything. >> reporter: he is replacing the broken strut on this car, but he says the damage also depends on how fast you're going. so on highways traveling 50 to 60 miles an hour, hitting a pothole could cost thousands to fix. but there are crews out patrolling and patching up the roads. here in fairfax unty, we found vdot crews fixing potholes along 236. sure it caused a backup, but weigh the options. a temporary delay or hitting one of these. and, jim, aaa has advice for drivers tonight. if you look at the traffic pattern in front of you, see cars are swerving, there's a hazard in front of you. if you do approach a pothole, make sure you don't slam on the brakes. just simply roll through it. it's important to check the air pressure in your tires. if they're under or overinflated, that can also cause damage to your wheels when you hit a pothole. john schriffen. jim, back to you. >> thanks, john. officials at george washington university have apologized for an error that probably proved painful for about 200 prospective students. all of the students had applied to gw. the university mistakenly sent them an e-mail congratulating them for being accepted when in truth the students had been rejected. university officials are blaming the mix-up on a clerical error. they also say it is possible the students already knew they had not been accepted because application decisions had been posted online several days before the e-mail went out. the storey was first reported by the gw newspaper. coming up, a rare film screened in our area celebrates the plight of the tuskegy airmen. and behind the scenes of olympic curling. we'll take you behind that tight-knit community. good evening. bob ryan, storm center4. temperatures right in washington at 40 degrees. later on tonight, we'll see those temperatures dip into the 30s and 20s. it will be another chilly morning headi out to school tomorrow morning. low to mid 20s and a bit of a breeze. a lot of sunshine. nice to get that sunshine earlier and earlier. tomorrow afternoon, once again into the mid-40s. that's still below our average, which is 48 degrees. next chance for anything that we really have to keep an eye on would be monday. sunday night into monday, right now certainly no sign that this would be a major storm, major snow-producer for us. if anything, it might be one of those snow-to-rain kind of situations. but remaining cold into next week. back to you. in celebration of black histy month, the national archives held a special event last night. a rarely-seen decades-old film was shown about the tuskegee airmen and a salute to the very first african-american military pilots. jim handley has our report. >> it's morning. 20 miles from the enemy. these are american boys going to work. >> reporter: that's the voice of a young soldier named ronald reagan before the civil rights movement and the reverend martin luther king. he scridescribes a moment in hiy when african-american men soared above the clouds of discrimination through abeiation. >> oh, yeah. there's no question. i knew i was going to be a pilot. >> reporter: that dream become a reality for william broadwater, a member of the tuckegy airmen, the first military pilots to take to the skies in world war ii. >> we flew the same airplane in training. and so we would be ready to get that squadron. they were trying to get up to speed so they could go to the south pacific. >> a group of average americans must become a team of fighting men with wings. >> reporter: many pioneers were fighting the enemy in the air, but on the ground there was another battle. >> i tried to get a job as an airline pilot. i was well-qualified. the airplane i flew was the same as the airline aircraft, but nobody would hire me. >> reporter: broadwater had to take a job as an air traffic controller. >> they sent a man to my house to tell me why they couldn't hire me. i was pretty bad. swched my major to law and i told that pr guy i'm going to get you. >> reporter: and he did, by making it okay for others to hang on to those sky-high dreams. >> first of all, get confidence that you can do anything you want to do. okay? that's number one. and i certainly had that. a young kid flying airplanes. i had a lot of self-confidence. >> well-deserved. broadwater went on to have a long-time career with the federal abeiation administration. he's also founding member of the tuskegee airmen's east coast chapter. he lives in maryland. >> good story. i've got a little recap of what happened in the olympics. not going to tell you all the stuff that happened. just some of them. we'll see ernie grunfeld. we'll see ernie and the wizards. he's going to tell us what's up with gilbert. and the hoyas trying to squeeze syracuse for the 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(announcer) the contour meter, only from bayer. so the trading deadline is today or -- >> yeah, it was today. it was over at3:00 today. >> and they made another move, right? >> another minor move. one more move for the wizards today. they traded dominic mcguire to sacramento for a second-round pick in cash. the wizards had to chip in about 300,000 to get the deal done. saves them more money in the long run. the rebuilding process has begun. they'll be a major player in free agency because the money has been freed up. you have to feel for the wizards' marketing department. the gilbert arenas banner is removed. then it's replaced with this one. yeah, they're all gone. you've got to take that one down. this team now devoid of stars, but they played well last night beating the t-wolves. the next step in the process, what happened to gilbert arenas? he will be sentenced in march. there has been talk about the team trying to void his contract, but that might not be possible. and listening to ernie grunfeld today, it looks like gilbert might not be going anywhere. >> he's part of this organization. he's under contract. if he wants to play, this is -- this is the place where he's going to play. gilbert is a basketball player. that's what he likes to do. that's his life. this is a tough situation for him. it's a sutough situation for everybody. we all feel for him because he loves to play the game so much. this is something that he really misses. and nobody wants to see anybody go through something like this, but in the summertime, we'll sit. i know he's going to work very hard to try to come back and be the best possible player he can be. >> so gilbert is owed about $75 million remaining on his coract. they've talked about possibly working out a buy-out, paying him 50 million or so to basically go away. but i don't know if they want to do that. if they might just -- he thought he was gone for sure. >> why would gilbert give up $25 million? >> exactly. it's going to be tough to figure this one out. >> but they can't build a team around this either. >> exactly. it going to be interesting to see how this plays out. it will be an ongoing process. the biggest trade today, tracy mcgrady to the knicks. they acquired him as part of a three-way swap with the rockets and the kings. the knicks want mcgrady for his expiring contract that pay him $23 million this season. they are then expected to go hard after lebron who will be a free agent this summer. down a level now. georgetown gets a shot at revenge against one of their biggest rivals. sew syracuse in town. they are going to be very amped up for this one. this is going to be -- this is going to be a good one. three weeks ago the orange squeezed the loife out of the hoyas. it ended up not even being close. syracuse wins 73-56. the hoyas are used to playing well after a bad loss so bouncing back after falling to rutgers is far from impossible. john thompson iii touched on that very subject. >> i don't think that there's a pattern other than that there is a pattern that we need to break. i don't think there's any specific thing where you can look at it and say we didn't do "x" and so we just have to make sure that, you know, in every aspect of the game we're better. >> we can't make the same mistakes we've been making. you know, most of the games we've lost this year, it's kind of been the same reoccurring thing that we've been doing wrong as ateam. so i think right now it's just time to fix all of those things and make sure we do that every game with the -- at a high level. won't come out the sam way as we did. >> that's greg monroe, the best voice in college basketball. in baseball news, nationals pitcher ross detwiler will miss three months because of surgery to repair a torn right hip cartilage. he was expected to compete for one of the starting sfa ining se rotation. time for your daily olympic update. the men's u.s. hockey team had no trouble with norway. and fuif you don't want to know who won the women's supercombined in skiing, look away right now. we're going to put up a graphic of the medal wins for five to ten seconds. here we go. >> all right. moving on. you can call him the flying tomato or the animal as he prefers or maybe just the two-time gold medalist. shaun white has already clinched the gold medal in the halfpipe before his second run last night. so this was just for fun. he went deep into his bag of tricks and pulled out the hardest one in the world. he calls it the double mctwist. and we're not even there yet. it's coming up right here. this is it. yeah. that's ridiculous. so he -- on the fun run, he scored an even better score. back-to-back gold medals for the king of the halfpipe. shani davis also has back-to-back gold medals after winning the 1,000-meter race last night. the chicago native needed just 69 seconds to cross the finish line. looking very smooth out there. davis, the first skater to win back-to-back gold medals in the 1,000 event since it was added to the olympics in 1976. yesterday, downhill skier lindsey vonn, she won the downhill despite an injured shin. she said she wanted to be aggressive and that's exactly what she did. all that extra tim she got to rest her shin really paid off. she flew down the slopes. he crossed the finish line in 1:44. and she's a very happy camper after last night. she won her first career olympic gold medal. and in case there was ever any question how big alex ovechkin in, then you've never seen the world's best hockey player in hockey-crazed canada. ovi wanted to do some shopping and he was absolutely mobbed when he tried to pick up new clothes. ovechkin has two goals in russia's win over latvia. everybody wanted to talk to him. no hiding when ovi goes out in public. fans inside and outside the store were scrambling to get their picture taken with him. he was in the store promoting the next winter olympics in sochi, russia. >> you got a really good chance to see them firsthand with the chemistry, with the team the other night. what was your assessment? >> oh, we just tried to play. you know,t's the biggest tournament of the year. you know, we have a pretty good team. it's nice. okay, guys. >> get out of my hair. it's not going to -- it's going to be interesting next olympics because the nhl is talking about not letting some of their players play. he says, i'm playing. it's in russia. nay have to have a two-week break and they're not making money. >> i wonder if that reporter had any idea that he's trying to learn the language. i wonder if ovi had a clue what that guy was asking about. but i loved his answer. yeah, we're a good team. we're going to win. now get out of my face. >> thank you, dan. when we come back, we'll head out to vancouver for a look at curling at the olympics. so, this is the new car? yeah, here she is. it's, uh...great. thanks! yeah. doors would have been nice. eh... they weren't in my budget. no biggie. hey, you wanna hop in, go for a ride? oh! that'd be easy, right? yeah! narrator: settling for less is not smart. what is smart is getting more car for your money at carmax. for the money you would spend on a stripped-down new car, you can get a fully-loaded, guaranteed-quality used car at carmax. now more than ever, the smart choice is carmax. the way car buying should be. the way things are looking, the u.s. is not likely to win a medal in curling. so far, both the men's and the women's teams haven't won anything yet. raj is in vancouver. he joins us with more on this curling thing. raj? >> jim, very great analysis there. i love it. you're might, they might not. but it's interesting. ia walk the streets of vancouver and you see recognizable faces. you see hollywood stars, the hockey players, they're always a big draw. but the curlers here are like rock stars. fame, fortune and stardom, a lot different north of the border. ♪ lights, camera, curl. you didn't know any better, you'd think this was a high-fashion catwalk. >> i wouldn't call myself a rock star. >> reporter: nowhere in the world is a 42-pound stone as popular as it is in canada. sports bars in vancouver are tuned into, you guessed it. >> everyone is curling mad. the stadium is packed out every draw. >> we were watching the men's game yesterday. it's all curling. we're like, this is nice. >> reporter: hot pants on an icy surface. curling has been associated with the winter olympics since the beginning in 1924. but only in the past few years has it become cool. and sexy. >> a girl looked at me and smiled at me at the end. so i'm all fired up. >> reporter: the band wagon is officially in full swing. even nfl pro-bowler vernon davis is on board, seeming as team usa's honorary captain here in vancouver. >> the first time i did it, i fell in love with it. >> it's just one of those sports that -- it's just chess on ice. and everyone just appreciates the skill that it takes to play really well. and i guess it's just one of those sports that canada has adopted. >> yeah. pretty interesting. yes, vernon davis of the 49ers and formerly the university of maryland, he is here like we mentioned. the honorary captain of the team. tomorrow is the women's gold-medal games for curling. on saturday, the men's. we are reporting live in vancouver. jim, back to you. >> raj, thank you. let's find out about the events we'll be able to watch tonight. jim hanley previews what we can look forward to starting at 8:00. >> the men go toe-to-toe in tonight's live figure skating free skate competition. look for a battle between the top three finishers in the short skate. russian plushenko, american lysacek, and takahashi of japan. they'll all finish in the top three, and the big mystery is just what order it will be. the women return to live action on the halfpipe in the gold-medal finals. the u.s. has won each of the last two gold medals in the sport, nearly pulling off a sweep in torino. and watch for highlights of the women's 1,000-meter speed skating. canada is favorite going into the competition. the u.s. has four competitors. for a full list of the events and everything you need to know about the games, visit nbcwashington.com. the zebras' black and white stripes might help it escape predators in the whiild, but they're no help on highways. in atlanta this afternoon, police officers turned into animal wranglers. they were trying to chase down a zebra that escaped his handler at the ringling brothers circus. the zebra led police on a wild chase through downtown atlanta. it was spotted at a federal building, at centennial park, and at cnn headquarters. then it surprised rush hour drivers on interstate 75 and 85. it galloped between cars before cops finally caught up to it and took it away and led it to