Parade. The girls godfather said she had dreams of becoming a doctor or a lawyer. Police say theres no indication she was the intended target of this shooting. They say someone just opened fire on a group of students who just had gotten out of school. Tears in this family and the pain etched in their face is unacceptable to everybody in chicago. This is sandy hook. Shooting happened a few blocks from the teenagers school kaine college prep. Hundreds of residents in newtown, connecticut, took part in a public hearing last night. Its part of a push to call for increased gun control legislation in the state. A Bipartisan Group from the States Legislature is considering policy changes after the shooting at an Elementary School which left 26 people, including 20 first graders dead. Randall pinkston has more from newtown. Jesse was 6 years old. Reporter he was among the 26 killed at sandy Elementary School. We can turn this tragedy into the event that turned the tide. Reporter lewis and other family victims spoke at a hearing before connecticut state lawmakers. The Bipartisan Panel is considering policy changes following the december 14 massacre. Many spoke in favor of new gun laws. A few against. The lawless do not observe gun controls, restrictions or regulations, and this leads good and lawful citizens at an unjust advantage against the lawless. Reporter David Wheeler lost his son benjamin to adam lanzas bullets that day. He said gun laws must consider those like lanza who suffer mental illness. That a person with these problems could live in a home where he had access among the most powerful firearms available to nonmilitary personnel is unacceptable. Reporter speaker after speaker received standing ovations, many of them parents of the victims, one the parent of a survivor. Susan aarons daughter escaped the shooting inside slain victoria sotos classroom. This was the last of four public hearings for the task force which will now consider writing new laws. Randall pinkston, cbs news, newtown, connecticut. Advocates for gun control are planning a march for change. This is february 14. You can find more information at march for change. Org. A bombing by an israeli jet across the boarder in syria is sparking new debate about relations in that region. Israel claims the target was of a military convoy bound for terror groups. Syria says israel destroyed a military Research Center. They say two workers were killed at the Research Center and five others were wounded. President obama says he wants final immigration reform, a deal done in six months. During an interview, the president said it could even be done sooner because no major issue is standing in the way. Eight senators, four democrats, four republicans have agreed on a framework when it comes to immigration reform. It would include a path to citizenship for the 11 million Illegal Immigrants already in the country. A dictionary and these sawyer reduce to lead to the mistrial of a former Culpeper Police officer found guilty of manslaughter. He was convicted tuesday of shooting and killing patricia cook. The jury foreman disobeyed the judges instructions and brought in dictionaries and a that sawyer reduce during deliberations. Prosecutors say the verdict should stand. The defense want as new trial. The verdict at this point remains up in the air. How should d. C. Spend its 417 budget surplus. If councilman marion barry has his way, it would be used to improve services for the citys disadvantaged people. Under the city charter, the council is able to use 100 million of any surplus without congressional approval. Mayor vincent gray says most of the surplus is going to go into the citys reserve fund. Education and jobs, the big topics of Maryland GovernorMartin Omalleys state of the state address yesterday. He proposed a 336 million bill to improve the Public School system. The money would be used to build new schools, create new jobs, and hold down the cost of local colleges. Omally says the School System is already once again one of the omalley says the School System is already once again one of the best in the country. Not two, not three, not four, but five years in a row the number one best Public Schools in america. Governor omalley also proposed several other bills. One would help develop off shore wind energy, a program in the state they say that would create more jobs in maryland. The time right now is 4 36. We are expected to dry out today, but be prepared for strong winds. Get the aqua net out. Howard is back in a few minutes with the forecast. Is blackberry back . One of two new smartphones but their stock could tumble. The cruise industry has been pretty good to charm city. Those stories and more plus 4 38. We are looking at a windy day. Most of the rain is gone of the just a couple leftover sprinkles. Gusting winds gusting up to 50 miles an hour. Temperatures will settle in the mid40s but windchills will feel like 20s and 30s. Wind advisory till 6 00 p. M. Ill have your weekend forecast in about five. Right now monika with timesaver traffic. If youre using 95 and 395, you should be okay. Scattered problems an our area with flooding and road closures. Southbound gw parkway between the Memorial Bridge and 14th street bridge, watch out for patches of high standing water. More in a few minutes. Thank you, monika. Time is 4 39. Im watching your money. The long awaited debut of new blackberry smartphones kind of a letdown on wall street. Research in motion actually fell nearly 1 despite mostly positive reviews for the redesigned phones. They say it may reflect the frustration for the phones release date. The first model goes on sale in march. The other one not until probably about april. And Facebook Says higher costs dragged down profits by nearly 80 last quarter but it said revenue got a boost from stronger ad sales on mobile devices. Facebooks Monthly Average users grew by 25 from a year ago to a little more than one billion. In the meantime the Dow Jones Industrial average hit a speed bump on its way to 14,000. Stocks fell after the government said the economy unexpectedly shrank in october by a tenth of a percent. Checking the numbers for you, the dow stands at 13,910. Dropped 44 points in trading yesterday. Nasdaq was off by 11 and the s p 500 lost almost six points. Last year more than 240,000 people used the port of baltimore to set sail on a cruise. In all 100 cruises left the port in 2012. Cruise ships began making year round stops at the port in 2009 and since then, maryland has raked in about 90 million off of these cruises. Roughly 220 local jobs are directly connected to the cruise industry. Carnival cruise lines and Royal Caribbean use the port year round. Meantime a groundbreaking ceremony was held yesterday on the site of a new walmart in northeast washington. The mixed use project is called fort Totten Square and will be located near the fort totten metro station. It includes 435 apartments, shopping and restaurant space all anchored by walmart. The project is expected to be finished by 2014. Thats going to be a big old complex. 4 41. Thanks for waking up with us. Still ahead with us, being safe on your bicycle, police are teaming up with transportation officials to try to make things safer on the roads in the district. Researchers were to bring an end to the myth of obesity and losing weight. W good morning. If youre just waking up, its a balmy 60 degrees. Before we get to weather, lets talk about power outages. Pepco is reporting about 6100 outages right now. Most they say are in the district and prince georges county. Bge has more than 2,000 outages in the region. The dominion power has been 1200 outages in northern virginia. How were you last night . It was we had power but it was pouring to beat the band. It actually put me right to sleep. I love that we were talking about that earlier. Youre one of the few. A lot of folks did not have a good nights sleep. It depends on thunder, too. If theres lots of thunder south of town we had the thunderstorms and the tornado watch. It was north of town we had the heavy rains. It started in the afternoon. Up to three inches of rain up in Loudoun County, Montgomery County. Well see sunshine today and were going to need it because its going to be a lot colder as temperatures settle into the mid40s the next couple of hours. Even upper 30s in the shenandoah valley. Winds will be screaming out of the west. 20 to 30, gusting 45, 40. We have a wind advisory for everybody till 6 00 p. M. A lot of rain north and west of town. The potomac, well have to watch that late tonight, tomorrow. We have flood watches out for that, but a lot of smaller streams, creeks, monika will tell but a water rescue thats happened in Montgomery County in the past halfhour or so. Turn around, dont drown. Still have a lot of water thats left. The ground is pretty frozen so the water had nowhere to soak in. It just ran everywhere. All of this is coming right toward our area. I know it was warm but the ski areas, its cold again. Theyll be making snow, getting snow. Going to be a good weekend to get out on the slopes. Locally were looking at just [ no audio ] [ stand by for captions ] even in d. C. Were gusting close to 40 miles an hour. Outside on our michael son weather camera this morning, the rains have pretty much left. Visibility much improved. However, its 55 with a sustained wind out of the west, northwest at 30, gusting to near 40. Just a light shower being reported now. I think thats the last time were going to see rain reported for a little while. Arctic air returning to the northern plains. 12 below in bismarck. This is moving toward us. After 70degreeplus temperatures the last couple of days, the deep freeze is going to set in here for the weekend. A storm system pulling east of us. Look at the rains. Even up in northern maine this has turned over from snow to rain and all that snow on the back side of n. Well get rid of this and well have to watch. In the northwesterly flow, a little disturbance is coming at us late tonight, tomorrow morning. Today we clear out. Mountain snow showers persist. We want you to watch what happens tonight. A little disturbance comes across. Tomorrow morning, look at this. We could have light snow or snow shower activity going o. At 6 00 that would not be good for the morning rush hour. A coating is not out of the question from this. It will scoot out of here pretty quickly by midmorning but just that little threat for some light snow or snow showers early friday. I want you to be aware of that. Heres a look at our forecast. A windy day today. Wind advisory till 6 00 p. M. 46. Some will hold in the low 40s, especially north and west. Colder for sure. Tonight we drop into the 20s to around 30 with early snow showers and green now but depending on what we see later on, we may have to make that yellow for tomorrow morning, 33. 36 saturday. Less wind but still cold. Sunday chilly. About 40, 41. Then we get to 50 tuesday and back in the 40s wednesday. So grab the heavy jackets and hold on tight to the steering wheel. Montgomery county fire and respect score are on the rescue are on the scene of a water rescue. It puts it kind of north of the sandy spring area. Theres one person in the vehicle stranded right now. As the message goes, turn around, dont drown. Please keep that message in mind this morning, especially with the scattered problems we have all over town. That is in Montgomery County west of New Hampshire avenue near sandy spring. Heres what it looks like on the beltway north of town. Tiny bit of slow traffic forming right now in the Silver Spring area but no big deals to report on your major thoroughfares. At georgia avenue, just a tiny bit of slow traffic on the outer loop of the beltway. Once youre here west of georgia avenue, youre going to be just fine. Back to the maps. This time to the west side of town. No issues to report right now 066 or the dulles toll road. As you come in from Loudoun County and loudoun were told there may be some flooding problems on the lesser traveled roadways. The major thoroughfares look okay. A live look at the 14th street bridge. All lanes are open heading into the downtown area. Also i want to let you know in downtown d. C. Police, the department of transportation, and d. C. s taxicab inspectors are teaming up to stop illegal uturns on pennsylvania avenue in northwest. Uturns are illegal on pennsylvania from 3rd to 15th streets because of the bike lanes which run down the center of the road. 11 out of the 14 bicycle crashes in 2010 and 2011 along the pennsylvania avenue corridor involve illegal u turns. So yesterday officers spent some time handing out flyers to educate drivers about the laws and also cited drivers who made illegal turns. Back to you, mike and jess. Thanks, monika. 4 50. A look at health news. We begin with new information about the 2010 meningitis outbreak. Maryland Health Officials say when they learned of a potential link between a spinal steroid injection in cases of fungal meningitis, they waited nearly a week before they alerted the public. Officials delayed notifying the entire state in order to gather as much information as possible. He said the delay posed no harm to the public since the state immediately alerted the clgs which were Administration Clinics which were administering the shots and they stopped using them. A Study Released yesterday debunked several Popular Pictures about dieting. The report myths about dieting. The report says false statements about dieting [indiscernible] some of the myths in the report include snacking leading to weight gain, eating breakfast every day fights obesity and tiny changes in diet and exercise lead to longterm weight loss. Youre always advised not to lose a lot of weight too fast, that its going to be bad for you. In fact, that doesnt appear to be true. Again from randomized controlled trials, it seems the large weight loss at the beginning is actually better. The study also points out whats proven to actually work. Like dont eat too much and exercise. D. For more information, go to the health page on wusa9. Com. Weve heard from notre dame football star manti teo about being duped into dating a fake online woman. Today well hear from the alleged mastermind of this hoax. I finally realized that i had to move on with my life. Dr. Phil is expected to allegedly reveal the fact that Ronaiah Tuiasosopo was actually in love with lennay kekua. Time for the can he of the time for the question of the morning. How many major professional football championships have been won by teams based in baltimore . Is it a, three, b, four, or c, six . If you think you know, log on to the wusa9 facebook fan page. Leave your response. Well have the correct answer in the 6 00 hour. And if you get this question correct, youll have a chance to win four tickets to the washington golf show at the Dulles Expo Center in chantilly, virginia. One winner will be randomly selected through friday. Welcome back. Your weather first at 4 556789 very windy. Leftover showers but temperatures are going to settle down into the 40s, even upper 30s in the northern shenandoah valley. Wind just gusted to 47 in andrews. That will be the case most of the day with the winds potentially gusting close to 50. So be aware of that. Ongoing water rescue in place right now in Montgomery County. Gold mine road at chandley mill west of New Hampshire avenue. Be aware there are road closures and flooding problems scattered around the metropolitan area this morning. Ill be back with more at 5 01. Back to you, mike. The story just gave me the chills when i read it the first time. The sandy hook Elementary School chorus is going to be featured in super bowl xlvii in new orleans. A group of 26 children from the same school where those first graders were killed as adults on december 14 in newtown, connecticut, again theyll be performing at the super bowl. The chorus will sing america the beautiful before the game. The performance is part of cbs pregame show and it will be brft right here broadcast right here on wusa9. All week long weve been helping you get ready for the super bowl including showing some of the alltime greatest super bowl commercials. Todays debut during the super bowl 30 in 1996. Your cheating heart will make you weak youll cry and cry and try to sleep but sleep wont come your cheating heart will tell on you [ laughter ] now what . The guys taking off. Oh, my gosh. Thats funny. I would like to say i dont remember that because i wasnt born yet but i was. That would only happen to me if i were to do that. N. F. L. Knockoffs, big jerseys are synonymous with the super bowl every year. Now theres a way to keep the counterfeit merchandise off the streets of new orleans. Our Kristin Fisher went undercover with customs agents in the big easy. Reporter undercover ice agents are patrolling a mall in suburban new orleans when they get a tip. Basically from a legitimate vendor that this guy is selling stolen merchandise. Its a super effort for the super bowl. Reporter theyre looking for anything that would violate the n. F. L. Trademark. But this bust is a bust. All clear. Some might say unfortunately we came up dry and we didnt make any seizures today. But the other side of that coin is i think the word is getting out. Counterfeiters know that Homeland Security investigations is out looking for them. Reporter check this out. Everything on this table, this is just a very small sample of all of stuff ice has seized over the last week here in new orleans. Theyve got a ravens jersey, new Orleans Saints hats. Believe it or not, they even have got a counterfeit n. F. L. Bikini. But its not just counterfeit clothing were talking about. Theyve also got counterfeit bling. This is a counterfeit 2009 super bowl ring. Last year operation red zone brought in 5 million worth of counterfeit merchandise. This year, that number is expected to double. But the benefactors arent just the n. F. L. The real winners are all americans. There is a very Large International criminal network thats supporting, that is producing this stuff. And we dont know what those profits are being used for. Human smuggling, drug trafficking. Reporter before you buy your ravens super bowl jeersy, just remember jersey, just remember. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is. Reporter Kristin Fisher, wusa9. You can catch super bowl xlvii this sunday right here on wusa starting at 6 30. Good morning. Youre watching wusa9 at 5 00 a. M. Im Jessica Doyle in for andrea roane. Im mike hydeck. Funny story. My son, we try to bring him up as a patriots fan. He said, i like animals so im rooting for the ravens. Good logic. You cant argue with that logic. I know. Its a logical mind from his mother, apparently. Apparently. Lets get you out the door. Were done with the rains but