This is what 40 to 50 mileper hour winds look like. This Montgomery County house was the only thing that broke the fall of this massive tree uprooted by tonights heavy winds. Its crazy. Reporter crazy winds also impacted power throughout d. C. , maryland and northern virginia. Power outages left thousands in the dark. This Prince Georges CountyShopping Center could not operate without electricity. Yes. Theyre closing up. Reporter Stores Closed their doors earlier than expected. It seems the weather was bad for business. We had like more than nine or 10 customers and we lost all of them. Reporter losing customers, losing power, losing a part of home. Tonights winds definitely made their mark. In this particular case the house behind me, the homeowners are out of it tonight. Fortunately there were no injuries. It just looks a lot worse than it was. In Montgomery County im mola lenghi for wusa9. Prince georges county firefighters Prince Georges County firefighters had to battle the wind, cold and a fire tonight in laurel, flames breaking out in a twostory home along irving street. First responders helped get a disabled resident outside to safety. Nobody was hurt. Its believed flames in a chimney somehow spread into the walls of this home. Weve been seeing gusts up to 50 miles an hour today. The question is will they stick around for the morning . First alert chief meteorologist topper shutt tells us how cold it will be at the bus stop. The good news, winds are on their way out. The bad news, its going to be cold in the morning, teens and 20s to start. Heres our wind gust tracker as of 11 00. These are actual observations, wind gusts still 25 downtown, maximum wind gust at National Today 47, 48 at dulles. Highest winds have moved east and north out of here. Thats some good news. Temperatures are falling like a stone. We hit visit today. Its 28 at national, 21 in gaithersburg, 25 in manassas. Factor in what wind we have, it feel like its 9 in gaithersburg, 5 in hagerstown and midteens in leesburg and manassas. It will be in the upper teens, upper 20s tomorrow for the kids at the bus stop but no wind chills to worry about. Well come back. Were tracking another arctic front for thursday. Another huge winter storm brought much of new england to a standstill. A victory parade for the super bowl champion new England Patriots has been postponed from tomorrow until wednesday. Boston was one of the last stops from the storm which dumped heavy snow from the midwest to maine. Detroit reported its third biggest snowfall on record. Chicago saw its fifth heaviest. Boston is getting most of the attention having endured two major snowstorms in a week. Schools will be closed tomorrow as the city tries to dig itself out again and more snow is possible there again on thursday. President obama putting himself in the middle of the pot debate in d. C. , his record setting 4 trillion budget for the 2016 fiscal year includes one provision that would allow for the legal sale of marijuana here in washington. Hank silverberg joins us live from capitol hill with reaction from both sides of this argument. Reporter that support comes in just a two word change in the massive Budget Proposal that will go to congress from the president. It could lead to a pretty big fight on capitol hill or maybe not. Part of the wording in the president s massive Budget Proposal would allow the District Of Columbia to use local funds to set up the roams for selling rules for selling small amounts of spots in Stores Across the city. This bill allows sale of marijuana in the District Of Columbia. Youd be able to apply for a license to sell marijuana and grow marijuana for people 21 years and older. Reporter the hearing will be next week so that the city can move ahead for collecting tax sales on pot sales. Hes not sure the Republican Leadership will fight this time. I think the Republican Congress doesnt want to fight over marijuana. Its a very popular issue as it passed here by 70 . Its also popular nationwide, as high as 60 or 65 in many states including realm states. Reporter but that doesnt mean there republican states. Reporter but that doesnt mean there wont be opposition. Ask will jones who led the campaign against the legalization of pot in d. C. Instead of having this false dichotomy either lock people up or legalize it there is a middle ground where youre not going to jail, but on the other hand, we dont have to introduce an industry thats going to target and attract young adults and thats going to be an addictive industry just like we have with alcohol and tobacco. Reporter jones said the debate over the dangers of pot have been lost in dollar signs. Were at a point now where its about money. People want the money out of this. Again this isnt about jail or decriminalizing other things. This is purely about money. Reporter the City Councils public hearing on the laws concerning the licensing of pot stores is set for next monday. On capitol hill hank silverberg, wusa9. It has now been almost a year and a half since a gunman murdered 12 people as he stalked the halls of building 197 of the Washington Navy yard, but after millions in renovations the first of thousands of workers began to return to that building today. They found remodeled offices and an updated cafeteria and a glass atrium, but for some employees those renovations could not erase the fact this is where aaron alexis hunted people down. Some of my friends that went down those stairs could hear the gunshots. A memorial of water and light honors the 12 victims. The vice admiral in charge of Naval Sea Systems Command says employees went back to work the day after the shootings but were scattered around in a half dozen buildings. Tonight family and friends of john geer say the Fairfax CountyPolice Officer who shot and killed geer should be fired and face criminal charges. Theyre reacting to the release of 12,000 pages of information about the shooting that took place just outside geers front door in springfield in august, 2013. The documents reveal none of the other officers on the scene felt threatened beigy who had his hands up. They also reveal by geer who had his hands up. They also reveal officer torres had just had a fight with his wife before arriving on scene and he had a previous outburst in court. An officer who has that kind of temper at least on that day with the Commonwealth Attorney in the most inappropriate place of all in, a courthouse, be carrying a weapon. I dont know enough yet, but we hop to find out. Police department hope to find out. Police department, Commonwealth Attorney and the county board and i think all of them have made their share of mistakes. After officer torres shot geer police waited for a hostage rescue vehicle to arrive to ram down the front door. By the time officers went into the house 70 minutes later geer was dead. A d. C. Mom and her boyfriend face charges of abusing the womans 9yearold son who had cerebral palsy. 27yearold betty threet and 52 yearold Lester Jackson beat the child, locked him inside a room for long periods of time and bound his wrists and ankles with duct tape. The boys father told investigators the mother dropped the boy off to him malnourished with wounds on his back and feet. The charges include first degree child cruelty. Members of the Montgomery County board of education indicated they will break their silence tomorrow as to whether or not School Superintendent joshua dr. Starr will stay or go. Starr has led Montgomery County schools since 2011. A recent memo is out highlighting his accomplishments pointing to higher Graduation Rates and closing the achievement gap between white and minority students. However, starr has not seen eye to eye with some board members. His handling of Sexual Assault cases involving team offers and employees has raised teachers and employees has raised questions and he was criticized on a decision pushing out school start times. His contract is up in may. He had until yesterday to notify the board of his intentions but no word from either side. Tv basketball analyst greg anthony pleaded not guilty to charges he tried to arrange a rendezvous with a prostitute in d. C. Police say last month the married father of four arranged to meet a prostitute at the Doubletree Hotel in northwest. The woman was an undercover cop. The officer told anthony intercourse would cost 80 bucks. When asked if he wanted her to dress up, police say anthony answered oh, yeah. The former nba player was in town at the time to announce a maryland terps basketball game. He has been suspended from his broadcasting jocks at both cbs and turner sports. The nfl network said it fired warren sapp after the hall of famer was arrested for soliciting a prostitute and assault. The 42yearold was taken into custody this morning at a phoenix hotel. A woman told officers she and another woman were working as escorts and an argument in sapps room turned physical. Samb was in arizona working for the nfl Networks Super Bowl coverage. Coming up christmas cards rejected. Why walt early reed said it sent walter reed said it sent back dozens of christmas cards made by autistic students to wounded warrior. The daughter of Whitney Houston and bobby brown battles for her life. 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According to documents obtained under open records laws, a passenger smuggled his own vodka on board, assaulted, threatened, intimidated or interfered with crew members, in one case grabbing a crew members rear end and harassed and offered an alcoholic beverage to an underage female. He was arrested upon landing and fined 10,000. At up with point he was threatening people. Reporter Flight Attendant sarah nelson witnessed another case. Then he started to strip his clothes and then he was attempting to threaten the Flight Attendant in the back of the aircraft and attempting to open the door. Reporter this passenger saw another. Somebody had too much to drink and became aggressive and obnoxious. Reporter a wusa9 usa today analysis reviewed 134 of the most serious unruly passenger cases filed since 2008, three coming into or out of dulles, two on the bwi and two at Reagan National airport. It is a perfect storm in aviation right now. Reporter nelson is now the International President of the association of Flight Attendants. She blames many of the cases on increase the passenger loads, reductions in on board ammenities and Flight Attendant cutbacks. Our planes are fuller than theyve ever been. Seats are closer together. Reporter congress has given the faa wide latitude to fine passengers as much as 25,000, but some claim theyre broke, addicted or mentally ill and end up paying nothing at all. Since 2008 the faa has issued about 1 million in air rage fine incidents, but in the end most cases are settled and less than half of that is actually recovered. Im Investigative Reporter russ ptacek, wusa9. Here is something that is unlikely to surprise you. There is a common factor involved in a lot of these cases. One out of four in our air rage review involved what our friend topper would call beverages, aka, booze. Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is promising to deliver holiday cards made by children with autism to its recovering soldiers, but after wusa9 spoke to their pennsylvania teacher who expressed her frustration about their return on our facebook page. Lisa luray richter says when she called walter reed for their mailing address, she was not told there was a november 29th deadline for those christmas cards. So she was shocked when the envelope containing 50 holiday cards made by her class of 6 and 7yearolds was return to sender opened and held together with a rubber band. I truly dont feel like its a slap in the face to me or to them that the cards didnt get there. Its a slap in the face to our military heroes that are laying in that hospital that ask for nothing in return. And all we wanted to do was wish them a merry christmas. They will be delivered. Tonight lisa said shes thrilled and also proud to be an american. Moms, dads, grandparents, you are the reason teenagers are starting to get off facebook. A new survey finds facebook use last year dropped 6 among kids age 13 to 17 and social media experts say one of the reasons is that they are less willing to share their thoughts and photos where adults could be watching. Another reason . Too many advertisements. Facebooks months are other social networks gains. Twitter and snapchat are gaining users. Instagram saw a 25 jump last year in 13 to 17yearolds. Facebook owns instagram. The 21yearold daughter of Whitney Houston and bobby brown still in a medically undo used coma. Bobbi kristina induced coma. Bobbi kristina was found face down in her bathtub and unresponsive. Bobbi kristina struggled with drugs. Her family released a statement asking for privacy. Former rap mogul major suge knight due in an l. A. Courtroom tomorrow. Prosecutors can only tend knight tried to run down a friend and another man with his pickup truck after they got in an argument on a movie set. Knight claims he accidentally ran over the two men trying to get away. His bail was revoked. Prosecutors argue hes a potential flight risk and could intimidate witnesses. Its known as hollywoods most coveted power lunch. Today the lunch at the Beverly Hills hilton kicked off the countdown to the 86th academy awards. Among the Traditional Group photo Bradley Cooper who says the heated debate surrounding his movie american sniper actually caught him off guard. Any discussion that sort of sheds light to the plight of the soldiers and men and women in the armed services, for that discussion to occur is fantastic. The annual oscars luncheon is a tradition that began in the 1980s. The stars say it gives them a chance to savor their nominations before the big show which takes place this year, sunday, february 22nd at the dolby theater in hollywood. Always watching always tracking wusa9 first alert weather. It is windy and cold, my friend, not a comfortable night. No. 50 degrees is our high today. That is a distant memory. Wind chill down to Single Digits and the winds subside tonight, but the bad news is temps will fall to the teens in the burbs. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, pretty much clear out, full moon, too. 28 degrees the low so far today. Whatever the temperature is at midnight will go in the books as the low today. Winds are calming down a little, northwesterly at 16. Look at the dew point, dew point in the Single Digits, relative humidity 43 parties. That is a dry air mass. Well look at 43 . That is a dry air mass. Well look at wind chills again. Feels like its 4 below in oakland and 13 below in davis, west virginia, which is where timberline is. It feel like its 12 at andrews, 14 in manassas. Very cold start and finish tomorrow, but not much wind. Bus stop temperatures 18 to 28, cold but no wind. Trying to give you a silver lining. Clouds return tomorrow night late but not as cold and then it will be milder the middle of the week for wednesday. Its going to be short lived, kind of a wild week in term of temperatures this week. Futurecast, 6 a. M. Teens in gaithersburg, leesburg, manassas all upper teens, even la plata 19, low 20s downtown, a few wispy clouds in the morning, partly cloudy. By 1 00 temperatures cold. You could walk to lunch, not much wind, low 30s downtown and around 30 in the burbs and winds beginning to switch and come from the south. That is a good thing. That will get in the warmer air on wednesday. By 5 30, 6 00 30s across the board. Temps will fall fast tomorrow night and then level out. No teens as these clouds will cross over from the mountains and keep temperatures up a little bit going through tomorrow night. Overnight tonight partly cloudy, breezy, colder, wind chills 0 to 10 and winds 15 to 20 with higher gusts, low temperatures 18 to 26. Break it down. 20s to start, 24 at 7 00, 26 at 9 00, 30 at 11 00 and 33 with sunshine at 1 00. Theres our mild day wednesday, 48. Some areas might hit 50. Some showers wednesday night. Then an arctic front goes through. Some of those showers could turn to snow showers thursday. Temps fall throughout the day on thursday. Next seven days looking at temperatures in the 30s friday, but then as quickly as it comes in it leaves, back in the upper 40s saturday, mid40s sunday, some showers possible sunday, another arctic front monday. That could turn those rain showers into snow showers, but boy, last week that just looked like a great week, now not so much. We have to get over our post football sort of withdrawal. Football done. Food coma from football. Its time to get into some d. C. Rising. Absolutely. Wizards started off pretty well. 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Wizards big man march sip gortat found himself in a bit of a Marcin Gortat found himself in a bit of a funk. Saturday night was action figure night, the polish hammer finishes with just two points and two rebounds. He decided to shave off his mohawk saying time for a change, but did it work . Well, he went two for six from the field tonight. Its an improvement, but gortat still trying to find hi out of that funk. 1 guy thats not paul pearce, three pointer and passes for all time in the league with scoring. Brad by beal a season high 11 rebounds, but the wiz couldnt stop al jefferson, 9288 the 9al. Key tonight was we dont play hard anymore. That falls on me. Ill take that. There are some teams in this league, some good teams that can get away with maybe coasting for a half. Were not one of them. Randy wittman keeping it level. Third ranked virginia with unc. After this play you would think it would be uncs night. The three no good, sits there and dumps in at the buzzer. The wa wahoos up by 13. Cavs pull off a big win 7564, the first time theyve beaten a ranked unc team in chapel hill since february 3rd , 1981. Mike brennan, the american eagles taking on holy cross. It wasnt pretty early for au or either team. The score at halftime was 23 18. Au was down five, yeah, but the eagles overcame a 10 point 2nd half deficit. Derek, your eagles won 5750. Go eagles. The new England Patriots were declared dead early in the season. People began to question whether the Belichick Brady era was over. We all now know the answer to that. The super bowl xlix victory, the dynasty continues and tom brady moves to a tie with joe montana and Terry Bradshaw for most super bowl titles ever at four. While the debate rages on as to whether brady is the greatest qb of all time, his coach had nothing but praise for his accomplishments. Like many other players on our team, hes a good guy that fights till the end and competes till the end. Theres no player that i respect more for that than tom. Weve been on the other end of this two times in the last seven years, you know, being ahead late in the game with a chance to win and not closing it out. Im glad we had the opportunity to do it. Ream quick your daily reminder to vote in our high real quick your daily reminder to vote in our High School Game of the week. Text the code of the game you want to 25543 and well highlight the winner friday night. So crazy. Im watching basketball and thinking march madness is right around the corner. Its like 17 days until spring training and march madness, midmarch. That means winter is almost done. Winter is practically over. Yea yea yea the downhill side. I guess six more we . According to the very unreliable predictions of you used to sleep like a champ. Then boom. What happened . Stress, fun, bad habits kids, now what . Lets build a new, smarter bed using the dualair chambers to sense your movement, heartbeat, breathing. 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