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temperatures hour by hour. now for the i-95 corridor, south and east, it's well above freezing and if anything, the temperatures will go up as we heard toward midnight. we're not concerned about any kind of icing from i-95 southward. and down toward the shore temperatures are well into the 40s. so any threat of freezing drizzle or light freezing rain is generally over the next couple of hours because temperatures are expected to go up as the evening goes on. light icing, north and west by 7:00, even though philadelphia 35 and the temperatures creep up later tonight. rain, fog, other issues for the morning rush but not ice or snow. and more issues with rain more part of a weekend with the seven-day that sheena will have in just a few minutes. all right. as glenn and sheena just explained to us, communities north and west of the city are the areas expecting to see snow as well as a wintry mix. >> we sent nbc 10's doug shimell to bucks county. what kind of weather have you encountered today? >> we've seen everything from what we've got right now, sort of a cold, light rain, temperature right around the freezing mark, to snow and everything in between. in the lehigh valley it did not stay as rain very long. bursts of heavy snow and sleet created the range of anxiety. >> i was in buffalo for the six feet of snow. so for me it was nothing. >> reporter: but turnpike crews didn't want the nothing to turn into something. temperatures stayed near the freezing mark all day.ç so it was all salt all the time. >> i don't mind driving in it. everybody drives slow and cautious but it's just snow, it's just wet. >> reporter: if you drive for a living, just wet can change in just a few miles. >> it's not bad yet. it's worse as you get north. take it slow and watch for other people. that's all you can do. >> reporter: that's exactly the advice the turnpike crews put out there, slow down, because they are guarding against, as you heard sheena and glenn mention a short while ago, that potential window for icing over the next couple of hours from about where we are north. so they've been focusing mostly on putting down salt. that is what they do until they see those temperatures rise. live in bucks county, doug shimell, nbc 10 news. burlington county investigate ares are figuring out what caused a driver to crash into a flower shop leaving this mess behind. this happened around noon. no ones in store was hurt and the driver had minor injuries. a hepatitis scare hits a popular south jersey restaurant. >> hundreds of people could have been exposed. now the concern is not just about the illness. nbc 10's south jersey reporter cydney long is live in hamilton township, mercer county tonight. concern also growing about vaccines? >> reporter: renee, that is correct. the township and the health department are quickly trying to remedy that vaccine shortage and they want to hold a shot clinic as early as thursday afternoon. now, some of those who have already swiped up those hepatitis a vaccinations are the employers who work here as well as family member of the infected worker. the restaurant shut down for a short time last night but opened this morning after being thoroughly sanitized and cleared by the health department. >> it's upsetting but i'm not angry. >> in that time frame we were there at least six times. >> reporter: long-time patrons of rosa's pizza and catering listened closely as the local health department advised there's a chance they could become sick, this if they dined in or ordered takeout between november 10th and december 1st. >> my son lives in florida. he was up here. we had tomato pie. he went back. a little concerned if he's going to transport anything back there. >> reporter: now the health department says there's not enough vaccinations to go around. >> we're in the process of trying to acquire it which i think we will be able to do and set up a clinic. >> reporter: hepatitis a can be mild or severe and sometimes people may not know they have it. >> you will recover from it. the symptoms are mostly gastro, which would be the sames is a stomach virus. >> reporter: rosa's employee, donna, severino says she's not worried about getting sick. she hopes it won't hurt business. >> i went to cvs to be vaccinated. >> reporter: this woman catered a party, feeding 116 people. >> all garbage areas have been cleaned, the bathrooms are clean. most of the area is approved by the department of health. that's why they allowed us to open up again.ç >> reporter: now tonight it is unclear just how that worker contracted hepatitis a. in the meantime, the health department just told me that they have been successful in purchasing those vaccinations directly from a pharmaceutical company and they will announce on their website as well as through social media just when that shot clinic will be held, where and when. live in hamilton township, i'm cydney long, nbc 10 news. breaking news out of knoxville, tennessee where two buses, school buses, have collided with deadly results. this is a live picture now at the scene. you can see the crews, emergency crews, surrounding those two buses. at least two people are dead. it's not clear how many other people are hurt here. stay with nbc 10 news as we work to gather more details on this breaking story. we've learned philadelphia rapper meek mill is set to be released from an area jail sometimes today. his real name is robert williams. williams served five months for violating proposal in a drug case. this is video of nbc 10's lu ann cahn interviewing him some two years ago. a judge ordered him to take classes in etiquette and sent him to jail in july over an outburst at his parole office. philadelphia police have spent the day going door to door, collecting hours of surveillance video, trying to determine if any security cameras picked up the movements of missing westchester student shane montgomery. he was last seen thanksgiving morning inside kildare's on manayunk's main street. the bar says he left just before 2:00 in the morning on thanksgiving and was walking. the fbi says he never arrived home. tonight, it's asking for anyone who was in the area of kildare's early thanksgiving morning to try and remember if they saw shane montgomery. >> we don't have any information one way or the other. we're not ruling anything in or out. so could there be something criminal? yes. i mean, but we just don't know. that's why we're looking for the public's help to try and generate more leeds in addition to all of the things we're doing. >> federal investigators say so far, montgomery has not appeared on any images police have collected from surveillance cameras. if you know anything, call philadelphia police. tonight, the chairman of temple university's board of trustees is revealing new details about what led up to bill cosby's resignation. the comedian who is a temple grad, served on the board since the early '80s. today nbc 10 spoke with chairman patrick o'connor. he told us he spoke directly to cosby over the last week to discuss the sex assault allegations and their impact on the university. according to the chairman, if cosby had not resigned on its own, temple's board would have most likely put it to a vote. >> i thought it was a noble act on his behalf, because he put temple in front of himself. it's something that he wanted to keep. he wanted to remain a trustee. he wanted to come to our graduation. he was part of it. but this story was getting too big. >> more than a dozen women have recently come forward to accuse bill cosby of sexual assault. cosby has never been criminally charged. at first it looks like a harmless encounter on a city street but moments later comes a sudden and violent çattack. who police now have in custody and what the victim is saying about the man who took her and her baby by surprise. perhaps it's the thought that counts. this pennsylvania bridge was renamed in honor of a fallen police officer. but there's a problem that now has them headed back to the drawing board. and next, that sinking feeling, it started as a pothole but quickly grew. now a major road is shut down. ray rice calls it one bad night and he wants a second chance. >> he's referring to the videotaped attack against his wife that happened inside an atlantic city casino elevator. rice talked about the very public incident with theç "tod" show's matt lauer. nbc 10's jim rosenfield is live in the digital operations center. jim, what did he have to say? >> as you mentioned, he's hoping and wishing to are that second chance and he's taking full responsibility, he says, for what he did. rice spoke with the "today" show's matt lauer alongside his wife jenay and her parents. an arbitrator threw out rice's indefinite suspension. now the former baltimore raven says he's seeing a counselor and hopes to return to the field again someday but he's prepared for the possibility of life without the game. >> if i never play football again, i'll be honest with you, i would sacrifice more so she can have a better future. >> now that his suspension has been tossed out, he's free to play for any team that wants to sign him. he told matt lauer his focus is on his family. ray rice's case led to a lot of changes for the nfl and this whole issue of domestic violence. today the issue was front and center on capitol hill. representatives from all four major sports leagues were on hand, among them troy vinson. he got emotional and told the committee abuse was a way of life in his home because his own mother was beaten. >> i've committed my life work for the last 20 years as an advocate against domestic violence, in an effort to keep others from experiencing this lifetime pain. i relate to the 20 million victims, survivors of domestic violence, sexual abuse in every community across our great nation. >> vinson is the executive vice president of football operations. now lawmakers called today's hearing because they want to know how each own every sport deals with this issue of domestic violence and players who might engage in acts of domestic violence and they're also looking for ways to implement changes that could be put in place in the future. live from the digital operations center, jim rosenfield, nbc 10 news. >> thank you, jim. the tsa says more people are trying to get guns past airport security. transportation security administration says its officers found 2,000 firearms at airport checkpoints so far this year. agents found about 1,800 guns last year. travelers who bring guns to airport security checkpoints can be fined up to $11,000. >> a shocking scene for guests at a beverly hills hotel. police opened fire on rodeo drive. evidence markers and cash were scattered around the normally neat lobby there. the crime scene is just feet from the famous street, featuring some of the most expensive stores in the world. listen as a witness described what happened. >> i just saw the guy, so i pointed toward 360, the luxe hotel. within a couple seconds they ran. not 20 seconds from there, there's a gunshot. >> it's shocking, beverly hills, you don't really see it. >> a tracking device led police to rodeo drive. the suspect did have a gun but did not fire at officers. that suspect isç now in the hospital. take a look at this, a big sinkhole opening up right in the middle of a busy highway near washington, d.c., creating big headaches for people on their way to work. police first found the sinkhole on the george washington parkway. four cars wrecked while trying to avoid the hole. overnight, the sinkhole grew from 3 feet to more than 10 feet across. looks like rain made the situation there even worse. during this morning's commute, officials closed the southbound lanes of the parkway. that left a mess for drivers. >> it's frustrating. i'm heading back home. i'm going to work from home today. >> you're bagging it? >> yes, i'm bagging it. >> probably a good idea. city officials say this area of the parkway will be shut down until at least tomorrow morning. protecting the environment while continuing to innovate, just two of the waste water management's priorities. this was all part of the discussion during a senate panel hearing on waste water management. camden officials say their two biggest issues are repairing infrastructure and preparing for climate change. >> well, replacing and upgrading is important. we can supplement that and improve resiliency but doing various things. our goal is to be 100% green off the grid by 2018. >> wow. today's hearing comes as some communities across the country debate whether to purify waste water for human use. happening now, it's beginning to look a lot like christmas in washington, d.c. you are looking at a live picture of the capitol building and the annual christmas tree lighting ceremony taking place there. house speaker john boehner will do the honors again this year. this year's tree comes all the way from minnesota. the tree made its way through dozens of cities on its journey to our nation's capital. >> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist sheena parveen. >> well, definitely a colder day outside today. and those cold temperatures stay with us tonight. we do have a threat for icy conditions possible north and west. we've seen seen reports of freezing rain in many spots through the lehigh valley, even the poconos. rainy and cold as we go through the rest of the evening for pretty much everyone else we'll keep that chance of rain in the forecast. some of it could be on the moderate to heavy side, too. tomorrow, temperatures become milder, we're back in the 50s. here's the area for the threat for possible freezing rain as we go through the rest of tonight. areas north and west, upper montgomery county. poconos are barely below freezing in the poconos. here's a live look at blue mountain ski resort. this is one area in the lehigh valley near the poconos who has seen their fair share of freezing rain. freezing rain, very light is being reported in mt. pocono. temperature there 28 degrees. feels more like 17, especially when you factor in that wind we have around the area. north and west through the lehigh valley, temperatures right here a little bit below freezing. 31 allentown and reading. theç upper 20s in the poconos. this is the main area where we expect to see more freezing rain before the night is over. philadelphia is above freezing, 37 degrees, same thing in trenton. 37 degrees right now in dover. locally most of the area is seeing very light precip, more like drizzle or just seeing light wintry mix, possibly freezing rain north and west. that's where we look into parts of berks county. you're seeing some of that showing up on the radar. lancaster county, this is potentially freezing rain falling. for south jersey and delaware, this is mostly at the moment just some drizzle but the temperatures are cold. it's still a cold rain. we have more moisture down to our south and west. we are watching that to move in for the rest of this evening. it's mostly rain but, again, areas north and west may see a wintry mix. here's a close-up look at the poconos, lehigh valley, areas north and west of philadelphia. notice the temperatures as we go closer to 6:00. we do expect them to rise a little bit. still a threat for freezing rain. by 10:00 tonight, we could be near 40 degrees. we'll see a warming trend as we go through the overnight hours. any freezing rain north and west should be fairly short lived. here's future weather showing the whole area. there you see another batch of rain moving in by 10:00 tonight. we're not going to clear up tonight. it's mostly going to be tomorrow when we see slightly drier conditions. 6:00 tomorrow morning, we are cloudy and cold, patches of rain as we go through the day tomorrow, even through the afternoon. at least those temperatures will be milder. tonight, rain and fog around, north and west, low 40s, philadelphia upper 30s north and west. these numbers keep going up into tomorrow. temperatures mid-to-low 50s. fog, patchy rain, cloudy conditions but not as cold as today. finally more sunshine, thursday, enjoy it. as we go into the weekend, we have a rainy stretch of weather. >> thanks, sheena. a live look at the christmas tree near the capital that is all aglow. the lighting ceremony just took place with house speaker john boehner doing the honors. the tree comes all the way from minnesota. >> what a pretty picture that was. well, not sure what to get your family or friend this holiday season? gift cards always a popular bet. they may have also been easy pickings for some. what two postal workers are accused of doing to other people's gifts. and another recall for general motors. why another 300,000 cars are now under investigation. talk about being a grinch, at least two u.s. postal workers are under investigation for stealing gift cards from a mail distribution center in maryland. scott mcfarland has the story. >> reporter: at least two of the employees here at the mail distribution center in capital heights are accused of taking the gift cards from the mail they were processing. one of them telling investigators her colleague truly would cut open the envelopes and take out the gift cards when the coast was clear. several weeks ago before the holiday mail rush, a manager here found a razor blade and 200 envelopes sliced open. according to a federal search warrant filed bit u.s. postal service inspector general. days earlier the feds got a tip a postal customer sent a target gift card but the card never arrived. they say they found 25 gift cards in her car. she admitted one of her colleagues had stolen far more. $7,500 worth. he'd actively look for certain envelopes likely to include giftard cards, put them to the side and snatch them when no one was looking. she even admitted serving as a lookout, say the feds. we went to that man's listed address toç ask him about it. the woman inside said he wasn't home. the feds are seeking court approval to search that employee's cell phone for evidence. at least one of the two employees was captured on surveillance video. investigators have said using one of the cards, a $120 gift card at the target in rockville. >> that was nbc's scott mcfarland reporting. from our south jersey news bureau, trouble in toyland. today the new jersey public interest research group released its 29th annual survey of toy safety. we've been telling you about this report. the consumer group found a number of toys that are choking hazards. several with high levels of substances from lead to chromium. some of the toys have been purchased at walmart and amazon.com. >> we want to make sure that our children are safe, especially in this upcoming holiday season. parents and caregivers should watch out for common hazards when shopping for toys. >> in the past, the toy industry association has criticized the study saying they had unreliable data to read the full report, visit nbc10.com. answering the call for help. >> philadelphia's top cop is doing just that. tim? >> reporter: philly's police commissioner tells me when the white house calls you for a favor, you tend to say yes. charles ramsey has a very important job ahead of him. we'll tell you about it, straight ahead. keeping atlantic city afloat. the partial tax break new jersey lawmakers are proposing to help fare the surviving casinos. plus all new on nbc 10 news at 6:00, college students from our area accused of gang raping a classmate in a new jersey dorm room. tonight, who's speaking out in their defense? now your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> it's been an umbrella kind of day in parts of our area. cold, light rain fell here in wilmington. to the north it's more of a wintry mix. >> nbc 10's first alert meteorologist sheena parveen is tracking the weather and what we can expect tonight depending on where you live. >> yes, certainly depending on where you live, renee and denise. we are watching areas north and west most closely. this is where temperatures are hovering around the freezing point and also where moisture is about to move in. here's a look at the satellite and radar. most of our area is seeing maybe drizzle but off to our west we have a big area of possible freezing rain. now i've zoomed into berks county. so right around 78, upper bern, we expect freezing rain in this area. we've had multiple reports of freezing rain through the lehigh valley, upper montgomery, bucks county, also in parts of the poconos we've seen the freezing rain reports all afternoon long. much of this is drizzle but it's freezing on contact. as we go through the rest of tonight, we'll have the winter weather advisory because of freezing rain with potentially icy roads in some cases. take a look at the moisture off to our west. the pink color shows you where we could be seeing sleet or freezing rain on contact. freezing on the surface as it falls. more moisture to our south and west. this is something we'll continue to watch as we go through this evening. somebody else we'll be watching closely as the moisture moves in are the temperatures, those are critical at this point. chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is standing by. glenn? >> you can get freezing rain on railings, driveways, sidewalks, around tree limbs, places other than roads. warmth we saw yesterday helps out a little bit. it's below freezing now in reading and allentown, holing steady there, right at the freezing point, coatesville, pottstown, quakertown, doylestown, every place south and east of the pennsylvania turnpike is wellç above freezi. it was 36 in philadelphia. it's now up to 38. that is a good sign, that temperatures are going to be rising and they need to rise before that area of freezing rain moves in that sheena just showed you. she'll be back with the rest of the seven-day forecast in just a few minutes. >> thank you, glenn and sheena. get important weather information delivered right to your smartphone or your tablet with the nbc 10 weather app. it's a free download. get it right now by doing to our website, nbc10.com. keeping an unblinking eye on police and the people they're sworn to protect. president obama is asking for a major national investment in body cameras for officers. it's all part of a renewed effort to ease tension and create a better understanding between law enforcement and the general public. >> it's a daunting task and president obama is asking philadelphia's top cop to help spearhead a new national task force in the wake of ferguson. nbc 10's tim furlong joins us live from police headquarters in center city. tim, you spoke with commissioner ramsey today. what did you hear? >> i did speak with him. as you can imagine he's flattered but he indeed knows there's a mountain of very important work ahead of him. >> simmering this press. >> reporter: when president obama wanted to start a task force to help improve police/community relations in america web turned to the guy you see next to him, philly's top cop. >> obviously if the president wants you to do something, you tend to say yes. >> reporter: ramsey led the d.c. police department before coming to philadelphia. he's well known in law enforcement circles around the country. >> are you excited to get a call from the president of the united states asking you to do this. >> yes, it was pretty exciting. >> reporter: exciting yes but the challenge before ramsey is a big one, trying to figure out how to get american police departments to earn and maintain the trust of the communities they serve, particularly in areas like ferguson where there is a well established two-way us versus them dynamic. ramsey has 90 days to lay out a plan. it will take longer to roll it out in towns and cities across america. again, a major challenge. >> so it's quite an honor and i'm excited. i'm pumped for it. i have responsibilities right here in philly running the philadelphia police department. i'm not going to let that slide as a result. >> commissioner ramsey had an oval office meeting yesterday. that's pretty cool. he has 90 days to get this thing up and running. it will take longer to implement the plan. local police departments around the country will be the ones that make this work. everyone will have to buy in if it's going to happen. live in philadelphia, tim furlong, nbc 10 news. >> all right, tim. we have new information tonight in a deadly bucks county accident that happened over the summer. today, a driver involved in the crash turned himself in to police. he'll face homicide by vehicle charges. this is video from the july accident in chelfant. a judge ordered 33-year-old jonathan williams be held on murder and burglary charges. he lived blocks from his victim, ronald fishman. he served at a synagogue in roxborough. on the night before yom kippur, fishman was foundç stabbed to death inside his home. a witness saw williams leaving fishman's home. police believe the two had an argument. now to a proposal to help stop atlantic city's casino crisis from growing. new jersey state senate president steve sweeney and state senator james whalen unveiled a new rescue plan that would give ac surviving casinos a tax break. they say their bill would alove casinos to collectively pay $150 million instead of taxes for two years. it would also redirect an investment alternative tax to help pay off $25 million to $30 million of ac's debt a year. four casinos have already closed in atlantic city just this year. and the tramp taj mahal is scheduled to close later this month. tonight at 7:00, a bucks county community will hold a hearing after septa's expansion problem for the levittown train station. tullytown council wiofficials s approval process will likely extend into the new year. starting a business can be an expensive endeavor. >> today philadelphia mayor michael nutter announced a new plan that gives you the chance to help local entrepreneurs raise some money. nbc 10 at the 48th street grill in north philadelphia today is one of several businesses already taking part in the program. it's called keep a city philadelphia. it raises money for businesses through crowd funding or interest-free loans from the public and loans can start as smalls ajust $5. >> 0% interest, no fees, no mandatory credit check, no collateral requirement. the loans are based on social capital and the 90% repayment rate. >> if you lend money, you'll get paid back over a period of six months to two years. you can use paypal to send your money through the keva.org website. one minute a mom is walking down the street with her baby in her arms, the next she's laying on the ground after a surprise attack. who police now have in custody and what the victim is saying. it was meant to honor the memory of a fallen pennsylvania police officer but an error now has planners heading back to the drawing board. first, here's what's coming up tonight on nbc 10 news at 6:00. missing for nearly a week. crews are still searching for this westchester university student. at 6:00, why the fbi says his trail is so hard to track. then, this fake soldier wearing the uniform valor servicemen and women on black friday. what it would take for him to face charges. plus, the president of the board of trustees breaks his silence. couldn't the on nbc 10 news at 6:00. we continue to follow breaking news out of knoxville, tennessee, where two school buses have collided with deadly results. this is a live look at the scene where officials just briefed the media moments ago. two children and one adult are dead. 20 other children are injured. the crash happened on a highway and the impact pushed one bus right into the other. stay with nbc 10 and nbc 10 news for more information. i'm nbc 10's vince lattanzio. a woman that has been fighting to have an arrest removed from her record. using the nbc 10 mobile app you can read about the trouble that the woman went through and how a local nonprofit helped fix the mess. it's a digital exclusive story available exclusively on your mobile device and computer. renee? >> all right, thank you, vince. what was supposed to be a nice way to honor a fallen police officer and civil war veteran didn't exactly go as planned. signs got the honoree's name wrong. this happened about an hour outside of pittsburgh in connellsville, pennsylvania. a ceremony renaming the west crawford bridge. the name was used the wrong name. lawmakers are working to fix that mistake. a sidewalk attack is caught on tape at the top of your screen here. you can see a woman suddenly kicked from behind. she and her baby hit the ground and now police have a suspect in custody. what the victim is saying about the surprise attack. and i'm tracking cold temperatures with a chance for still some freezing rain this evening. i'll show you the timing of that, plus some milder temperatures in the forecast. that's straight ahead. plus all new on nbc 10-tuj at 6:00, a case of the book bandit who's accused of stealing thousands of dollars worth of rare books from a local library. here are some of the stories making headlines on nbc 10 news at 5:45. philadelphia police have spent the day going door to door collecting hours of surveillance video, trying to determine if any security cameras picked up the movement of missing westchester student shane montgomery. montgomery was last seen thanksgiving morning inside kildare's on manayunk's main street. the chairman of temple university board of trustees says the board most likely would have voted on whether to remove bill cosby if the comedian had not resigned on his own. he's br under scrutiny for several weeks now after more than a dozen sexual assault allegations recently resurfaced. the new jersey department of health is warning of a hepatitis scare at a south jersey restaurant. officials traced a confirmed case of hepatitis a to an employee at rosa's pizzeriaç a catering. if you've eaten there recently, health officials say call your doctor to schedule shots right away. small business saturday and siper monday as well as black friday, there's a big push to give back this holiday season. >> it's called giving tuesday. nbc 10's jesse gary shows us how businesses inest chester county are giving back. >> reporter: julie anne's place is one of nine businesses taking profits to pay it forward. the owner told me she received a call to help. she's taking 20% of her day's profits from this 3-year-old eatery and donating it to baker industries. that nonprofit helps those in need find jobs. >> they give people work who can't get work otherwise, whether they're recovering drug addicts getting out of prison and they need to get back into the work force. it's not just businesses, people across the region are posting selfies showing how they're choosing to give. one financial expert says the well intentioned should give caution when giving, especially online. >> if you're donating with a credit card you put yourself at risk for credit card theft. >> reporter: he suggests making sure any online charities have a physical address. for more on giving tuesday, go to our website, nbc10.com in malvern, chester county, jesse gary, nbc 10 news. now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist sheena parveen. >> well, definitely a cold and wet day today, especially when you compared it to yesterday. icy areas north and west as we go through tonight. so that's going to stay in the forecast. we have many areas through the lehigh valley that were reporting freezing rain earlier. that's moving back in right now. rain and cold for the rest of the area as we go through this evening. another wave of rain will be moving in and for tomorrow, temperatures will get milder, even overnight tonight. they'll start to warm up a bit. here's a nice look at blue mountain ski resort. these are the areas right now where we have temperatures below freezing, enough to give us freezing rain. mt. pocono still reporting freezing rain. temperatures in the upper 20s. feels more like the teens with the winds now switching in from the east/southeast in the poconos around 15 miles an hour, visibility is low. for the rest of us tonight, we expect fog forming. through the lehigh valley, north and west suburbs and the poconos, tonight we have the weather advisory, the winter weather advisory for possible freezing rain which could lead to some icy spots on the roadways as we good through tonight. that is certainly something you want to watch out for. north and west right now, we are below freezing for manufacture these areas, still 31 in allentown, 32 in reading, philadelphia coming in at 38 degrees. much of south jersey and delaware in about the mid to upper 40s in some spots closer to the shore. most of us are either seeing drizzle or some very light rain. however, we do have more moisture moving in to the areas that have temperatures at or below freezing. 78 towards berks county, hamburg, greenwich, seeing possible freezing rain in this area. this is one of the spots we'll be watching closely. look off to our west. we have more snow falling and the pink is showing whereç we could see sleet or freezing rain. this could be causing problems on the roadways. this is why we have the winter weather advisory out areas north and west. there is all that frozen moisture moving in. we have more moisture moving in from west virginia and virginia. we'll be watching that as we go through tonight. we zoom into the poconos, lehigh valley, our north and west suburbs. temperatures will slowly be rising at the same time the moisture moves through. we do expect this to be turning over to rain as temperatures start to warm up a bit. a bigger picture shows the rain moving through the area as we go through 10:00, 11:00 tonight. the clouds hang around and the chance of showers will stay in the forecast. a few can be tomorrow morning, too. early fog, freezing rain north and west. upper 30s north and west. temperatures rise to that overnight. tomorrow afternoon, mid-to-low 50s, it will be a cloudy day with drizzle, a few showers here and there. at least it will be milder. on thursday we see more sunshine. kind of a cool, chilly day. but enjoy it because over the weekend we have a rainy stretch of weather. all right. thanks, sheena. if you drive a car or from gm you'll want to listen to this. general motors issued a recall for more than 316,000 older vehicles in the u.s. because their headlights may stop working. this affects the buick lacrosse sedan, the chevy trailblazer and enjoy, all from model years 2006 through '09. if you have a defective headlight go to the gm dealer and they'll replace it for free. japanese air bagmaker could face fines and legal action if it doesn't agree to an expanded national recall of driver's side air bags. takata is facing a deadline from the highway traffic administration. 14 million vehicles have been recalled worldwide because air flag inflaters can explode, sending metal shrapnel into the passenger compartment. a follow-up into an investigation into the use of recycled tires in playing fields. that story profiled a soccer coach who started asking questions after two of her goalies were diagnosed with cancer. stephanie gosk will look at rubber mulch. some toxicologists say the recycled tires are made up of chemicals potentially harmful to young children. the industry points to dozens of studies they say prove recycled tires are safe. "nbc nightly news" will present both sides on this growing debate. that's tonight at 6:30. it's an attack on a city street that no one saw coming. >> whole thing was caught on tape. this mom and her baby were kicked from behind and knocked to the pavement. who police have in custody and what the victim is saying about this surprise attack. a new york teenager is now in custody accused of drop kicking a mother in the back as she carried her 2-month-old baby. >> the suspect took off with the woman's cell phone and surveillance cameras captured the whole thing. wnbc wnbc's pei zi chang has the story. >> she fell as she was going forward so he grabbed the baby with her hand to protect his head. and as they were falling, she was able to turn so she wouldn't land on top of the baby. >> reporter: police say her attacker was 18-year-old alonzo brown as the teenager was led out of the 48th precinct station house, he apologized. >> i'm sorry to the lady and the baby. i didn't know the baby was there. >> translator: she does not accept the apology. he deserves to pay for what he did. he has probably hurt some other people in the past. >> reporter: security video shows the mom on the right walking and talking on the cell phone, her baby strapped to her chest with an infant carrier. the man on the left walks by her, turns around, drop kicks her and steals her phone. the shocking video was broadcast on news 4 and other media and it wasn't long before 18-year-old alonzo brown was in custody. he has 11 prior arrests. they made eye contact as they walked by each other. >> he didn't act or think like a man pep acted like a coward. he has to pay for what he did. >> reporter: it was likely the quick thinking of this young mother that saved the boy from serious injury. brown faces a long list of charges, including robbery and assault. in the bronx, pei-sze cheng. i'm tracking rain tonight and watching wet weather that could have a big impact on your weekend. details on my exclusive nbc 10 first alert forecast. stolen valor, right here, stolen valor! >> plus it's a story that hit a nerve with a lot of our viewers. a local man accused of pretending to a local military veteran. next, we're digging into the legal consequences he could face. college students charged in a gang rape of a classmate in a dorm room. we're getting the latest on what that happened in court today and who's coming to their defense. first, we want to get you caught up on the other big story, it's the weather. >> we're watching a drastic drop in temperatures and a wintry mix. nbc 10 was there as the flakes started falling in the lehigh valley. we found bursts of snow and sleet in lower macungie township. the wintry mix not the only weather story tonight. we're also tracking a huge temperature swing. we have live team coverage from our nbc 10 first alert meteorologist. >> we begin with sheena parveen. >> the areas seeing the freezing rain right now, mostly north and west of philadelphia, lehigh valley, poconos, suburbs north and west. temperatures here are just hovering around freezing so in some spots it is cold enough. what you see on the radar approaching us from the west, the pink stuff, that's freezing rain or sleet in many cases. but in our area, we've got many reports of freezing rain. in parts of berks county, areas like bern, maidencreek, hamburg, northampton county. we've had many reports of freezing rain this afternoon in much of the lehigh valley and our suburbs north and west. we have the winter weather advisory out in these areas because of more frein
Beverly-hillsPennsylvaniaUnited-statesRockvilleChester-countyMacungieDelawareMinnesotaBernSwitzerlandMalvernWashington alone. >> the policeman said we'll give you a ride home when we were like 2 blocks away. >> reporter: but he didn't and late that night child protective services forced the parents to sign an order saying they would not let their children walk around without adult supervision. >> i'm not going to risk my kids being matched again like this by cp7. >> reporter: but now their lawyer says he will sue montgomery county within a week or so to force it to soften that order and to allow the parents to raise their children as they see fit. >> we want our children to grow up independently, feel safe and confident walking around the neighborhood and we can't. the meitevs can't accomplish that by hovering over them keeping them in their watchful eye 24/7. >> reporter: a police spokeman says the officer was simply responding to a 911 call about suspected child neglect. >> we are mandated as police officers in maryland to contact child protective services. >> this is not what we want our children to be, afraid of the police. >> reporter: now the lawyer for the parents says that he took the case for free because he has two children the same age as the children of the meitevs and he is always pushing those kids to get outside and play alone. he says that the supreme court has repeatedly held that parents have wide discretion on how they can raise their children as long as there's no substantial risk of harm. reporting live in silver spring bruce leshan, wusa9. >> i got to ask you at any time did the parents call police when their kids did not come back from the park or come back from their walk? >> reporter: as we understand it from the lawyer, the parents at first thought the kids were a little bit late. they were supposed to be home at 6:00. then they went out looking for them and then they realized what had happened and they called their attorneys. they suspected that they had been taken by the police and by child protective services, but no, you're right, they apparently never did call the police. >> thank you. now maryland does have a law that children under 8 cannot be left unsupervised. it only applies when the children are indoors or in a car, not when they're outdoors. the family of a d.c. boy gravely wounded by a stray bullet is filing a lawsuit against an apartment complex and security firm. it is a continuing story with apparent heroes and villains. bruce johnson is live at the apartments in d.c. how is that little guy doing? >> reporter: he's doing a lot better, one of the large e apartment complexes in all of d.c. and at 1 time this was a very dangerous place, but even back then there was the creed of the streets you didn't target. you didn't get involved with the youngsters, with the children. jayden stancil wasn't targeted in this case. he simply was in the wrong place at the wrong time. while most 9-year-old d.c. boils are going to class, run -- boys are going to class, running and tossing some sort of ball, jayden stancil is learning to walk again. >> he can talk again. he's able to see. for a few days he was consider blind. >> reporter: jayden was outside the may fair mansion apartments in northeast playing when a gunfight broke out among some young men. a bullet struck the oldest of four children in the head. how is mom doing? >> i'm trying to be as strong as i possibly can be for jayden. it's rough. it's a very difficult time for me and my family. >> reporter: the family and attorneys announced today they're filing a lawsuit against may fair mansion and others. >> this was advertised as a gated community which is one of the reason why the family moved there and the gates were never repaired and allowed to remain open so the criminals could come onto the property. >> reporter: jayden was shot in october last year and this is may fair mansion today, the very same playground. this apartment complex is still advertised as a gated community with a large private security force. we found a number of gates unlocked surrounding the complex today where there were security fads and cameras clearly visible. d.c. police have recovered two guns and bullets from those weapons at the scene of jayden's shooting last year. you might recall d.c. police officers shannon strange, thomas moore and steven giannini were honored for saving jayden's life rushing him to the hospital in a cruiser. >> this is not for any family. it's horrible. >> reporter: of course, we're all pulling for jayden and his family at this point. three pool were actually shot on that playground late last year, jay deny and two adult -- jayden and two adults, no arrests in either shooting. >> let's hope some new element develops soon. jayden's family was pretty critical of the city's forensic cry lab saying that lab has yet to process evidence from the crime scene including ballistic tests. in a statement the lab says evidence has been uploaded into a national data business, but since this is an ongoing investigation it cannot comment further. we've got new information on the case of that pennsylvania mother accused of leaving her quadriplegic son in the woods. philadelphia police announced today 41-year-old nyia parler is facing an attempted murder charge in addition to a host of other charges. police say parler left her 21- year-old son in the woods so she could spend the weekend with her boyfriend in maryland. her son was found in a pile of wet leaves next to his wheelchair and a bible. parler is currently in a maryland hospital for undisclosed reasons. a frederick mom has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for her role in the death of her 21-month-old daughter. a judge sentenced stephanie williams for preventing her husband from killing little anayah. frankie williams acknowledged beating the girl and is purr fewing an insanity defense. governor hogan said he'll sign a bill call ad nye ya's law aimed at -- anayah's law aimed at preventing similar cases. an explosion at the wayne mansion towers this morning caused residents to be quickly evacuated out into the rain. >> it was really loud. it was not only the explosion. it was a rocking building movement. it wasn't just the explosion. it was really, really strong. >> investigators have not yet determined what caused. this a fire department spokes person says it appears there was gas in the unit and it may have been a factor in that explosion. there is a big story in prince george's county politics and it has a lot of observers asking whether the county executive there is about to commit the ultimate political no-no, but that executive rushern baker tells us today, he is all in for a dramatic increase in local property taxes to fund the schools. our prince george's county bureau chief scott broom went one on one with him today to find out what he's thinking. >> reporter: he's anything he wants to -- thinking he wants to raise taxes and it's not just 2 or 3% which would cause a revolt in some sections, this county executive is talking about a potential 15% increase in property taxes here in prince george's county to help pay for improvements in school. i went one on one with him this afternoon as he prepares tonight to take his sales pitch on the road in front of some very skeptical taxpayers. the county executive in it for the long haul. that's rushern baker today with a partner training for the boston marathon which might be easy compared to pushing through the dramatic tax increase baker has proposed to fund schools here. >> i do believe in miracles. >> reporter: you could argue that prince george's county has produced some miracles. after the previous county executive and his wife went to prison for corruption and made the county a laughing stock. there has been $6 billion produced in economic development and a stunning 40% drop in crime, but missing in the equation is schools and it's breaking baker's all right. >> the reason we haven't seen a rebound in the market in prince george's county is because of one thing. it's our schools. if you compare us with every other jurisdiction, think about it. crime is down. economic development is on its way. the one area that you can't resell your home is because you can't point to a great public school system next-door. >> reporter: baker's solution, the big risk asking homeowners to believe like he does that a 15% tax increase dedicated to pumping at least 133 million more a year into the school system for more early education, pay to keep young teachers from jumping ship and a focus on making families part of the equation will bring the school system from the bottom to the top in just five years. >> by adding another bathroom, your home goes up in value. by adding a great school system right next to your home, guess what? your home goes up in value. when i ask prince georgians to believe in themselves, we've come up winners. we've done it with economic development, healthcare, public safety and crime. all those things are coming and once again i'm asking them to believe in themselves. >> reporter: by the way, training for the boston marathon, that is the pitch from the marathon man. county executive rushern baker here in prince george's county prince george's county, he has performed amazing turnarounds with both crime and economic development. he thinks schools should be next. he rolls this out in front of some skeptical taxpayers tonight for the first time at capitol heights elementary school. that is where my colleague stephanie ramirez tonight picks up the story. >> reporter: the county executive rushern baker says education is one of the top priorities with his new proposed budget. i'm stephanie ramirez at capitol heights elementary school. this is where the county executive plans to kick off his budget tour. inside usually only three students get to use the computer and ipads at the same time. >> we're using partners to use the computers. it's all very -- it's a difficult strategy to work with. >> reporter: 2nd grade t.a.g. teacher says this is an issue she faces trying to complete with other school districts for preparing their kids for the 21st century. one of the reasons why the school staff supports the proposed budgets. >> when you support the system whether or not your child attends prince george's county schools or not, you are impacting the future. >> reporter: they can't buy certain language books and canceled educational class trips and can't bring people in with assemblies this year. >> one in particular we would really like is for international day and they cannot get the chinese acrobats because i don't have any money. >> my children did go right up on the hill there. >> reporter: mary junior lives down the street and said this is very important, but she liz in part of the county that have already voiced tax hike concerns. she says the property values just aren't there. >> i think it's too much. i don't think we should have the tax increase really. my husband has his gi bill and he got it done a reasonable amount, you know, and i'm still paying it. >> reporter: this meeting will be the first of six. the others will be held in other locations to really include all of the county. capitol heights elementary, stephanie ramirez, wusa9 news. >> it's worth repeating. tonight's meeting starts at 7:00 at capitol heights elementary school. we are just getting started on wusa9 news at 5:00. those fancy new metro cars are in service now. so how do they compare with the old ones? nikki burdine takes a ride at 5:30. >> topper is back after the break with more on tonight's yellow alert forecast. >> plus the new developments in the case of the white deputy who killed a suspect after mistaking his gun for a taser. >> we'll hear what maryland governor larry logan has to two flood prone neighborhoods in d.c. may finally get some relief. today we were introduced to a giant underground boring machine to eliminate street flooding. this is lucy named after the first dean of howard women's university. she will soon bore a tunnel 100 feet underground to help keep the neighborhoods from being overrun with water during storms. president obama is moving forward with a plan to remove cuba from a list of state sponsors of terrorism. the white house says the president has submitted the paperwork to congress. the u.s. stopped accusing cuba of supporting terrorism. the oklahoma reserve deputy accused of accidentally using his gun instead of a taser has turned himself in. 73-year-old robert bates faces second degree manslaughter charges for the shooting death of a man earlier this month. his lawyer says that shooting was an accident. the deadly shooting of a community college employee in north carolina will be investigated as a late crime. cops arrested kenneth stancil in florida early this morning. they say he shot ron lane with a pistol grip shotgun yesterday. lane's relatives claim people knew he was gay, but he was very professional they say at work. according to wbtv, stancil's mom said her son was upset over lane's numerous sexual advances. always watching always tracking wusa9's first alert weather, d.c.'s most accurate. >> the rain and showers continue across the metro area. this is miserable. how would you be on the water rowing? temperatures in the 50s and raining about everywhere. 55 now is the low so far today. winds have gone north, northeast at 10 which is not a warm wind for us. the radar over the past hour, you can still see showers and rain from frederick back actually to i-81 and points east and south. just prepare for a wet commute home. we'll zoom in. heaviest activity appears east of town into southern maryland, parts of calvert county and out route 50 toward bowie and annapolis and around the immediate beltway still some moderate rain here and there. you get out toward bowie and see darker green. that's heavier rain, little flecks of yellow, moderate rain and pretty good rain near dunkirk on route 2. it's going to end tonight north to south. in hagerstown could end as early as 6:00 or 7:00. rain and showers will continue through the commute. bus stop temperatures tomorrow 44 to 56, a little cool. wednesday is nice, grab a light jacket. thursday clouds return and we could see showers return also by thursday afternoon. here's a look at futurecast. by 10:00 tonight most everybody is pretty much rain free, a couple showers south of fredericksburg. clouds are still lingering, temperatures mid- to upper 50s. in the morning we clear out, still lingering clouds, 9:00 temps in the 50s, a few more cloud south and west, but in the immediate immediate partly cloudy skies, pre -- immediate metro area partly cloudy skies, pretty nice, 60s to near 70. by 5:00 it's still near 70 downtown despite the clouds and by 7:00 we're looking at mid- 60s north and west. tonight rain and showers ending, partial clear late and cool, wind northeast at 10. by morning partly cloudy and cool, 44 to 66, not bad and by afternoon we'll keep it partly cloudy and pleasant, a few more clouds south, high temperatures near 70. on the day planner low 60s by 11:00 and 66 by 1:00. the next three days keep everything green now. clouds return on thursday with some showers possible, 65. some showers on friday, a little warmer, highs near 70, nats back in town thursday through sunday. some showers and storms possible saturday, a washout, 75. nice on sunday, low 70s, keep it dry for now, more showers and storms monday, dry and a little cooler next tuesday. the maryland general assembly passed a budget that fulfills a campaign promise from governor larry logan. as the 90 day legislative session came to a close last night, lawmakers approved a $20 billion spending plan for 2016. that does not raise taxes. >> we had the low lowest -- lowest rate of growth in 40 years. that's great for the taxpayers. >> in the budgets governor hogan wants -- budget governor hogan wants tax relief for people on pensions over age 65 and fulfilled a promise to end the state mandated stormwater fees. mountain lion on the prowl, the latest on a cougar that got cozy under a home in l.a. >> plus why americans are spending even more money on prescription drugs and cyber crime on the rise, tonight animal workers are trying to find a celebrity mountain lion that spent much of yesterday hanging out underneath a home in los angeles. after wildlife crews spent yesterday trying to get that big cat out he finally left on his own sometime this morning. the animal does wear an electronic tracking tag and normally lives in a park. national geographic famously photographed the cougar in 2013 with the hollywood sign in the background. in tonight's consumer alert it was a mixed day of trading on wall street. the dow was up 59 points at the closing bell. the nasdaq slipped by 10 points. it's costing us a lot more to fill those prescriptions these days. a recent report from a healthcare research firm finds we're spending more on medicines, like 13% more. the data points to more people being insured under the affordable care act and big break-throughs in medicine as the reason for that jump. hackers cracked a record 317 million new pieces of malware in 2014. a new report by symantec shows sign are crime is way up. criminals are getting better at creating bogus e-mail schemes that look safe but really aren't. a compensation expert for general motors has approved 84 death claims related to faulty ignition switches. that number could climb because more accidents are under review. gm detected the problem in 1999 but waited over a decade to issue a recall. it was a gunshot that changed the u.s. forever. coming up local actors tell us why they felt compelled to recreate the shooting of abraham lincoln. >> right after the break are the new metro cars ♪ i am never getting married. never. psssssh. guaranteed. you picked a beautiful ring. thank you. we're never having kids. mmm-mmm. breathe. i love it here. we are never moving to the suburbs. we are never getting one of those (minivan). we are never having another kid. i'm pregnant. i am never letting go. for all the nevers in life state farm is there. it was a big day for metro riders who got to take the brand-new 7000 series cars for the first time. they're clean and shiny and much safer. nikki burdine was one of the first riders this morning. >> reporter: there she is, the brand-new 7000 series metro car. she arrived this morning at the franconia springfield station to a line of fans. >> i pulled my phone out and had to stay pictures for instagram. >> reporter: so did i #newtrain. the eight car train has wider seats and more space on board. >> if your knees touch the feet on the space in front of you, chances are in the 7000 series that won't be the case. >> there is a lot more leg room. >> reporter: a brighter more airy feel, colors picked out by riders themselves. >> yes. i think it's totally lived up to my expectations. >> reporter: no more dingy carpet. digital screens tell you exactly where you are. >> it's a nice train. this feature up here showing you where the stops is good. >> reporter: another thing passengers will notice, the announcements are automated and much easier to understand, especially when you compare them to the old one. >> when boarding, please move to the center of the car. >> reporter: wait. was that it? i have no idea what but the biggest and most important improvement, the trains are safer. >> these are the safest railcars that we could possibly build. >> reporter: yes, it is shiny and pretty, too, just like -- >> riding in a limo. >> reporter: the brand-new train will continue to run through the evening rush hour and a second new train is expected to go into service next month. nikki burdine, wusa9. >> metro officials say they'll get a new train each month, a total of 528. anne arundel police tweeted a picture of the officer shot at a 7-eleven last week. this is corporal larry adams recovering in the hospital with his wife and the owner of the 7- eleven. investigators say adams was shot by a man acting suspiciously in the store. police have charged two people, colvin white and daniel blake, with attempted murder. in the presidential race democrat hillary clinton is on the road in iowa. she talked with voters at a coffee shop in leclaire and held a roundtable discussion with young people at kirkwood community college. >> i'm going to work hard to meet as many people. i'll be rolling out ideas and policies about what i think will work, but i want it to be informed by what's actually working. >> this is clinton's second white house bid. her campaign says this time around it's trying a low key approach that involves more time listening to voters. clinton is trying to raise $100 million for the democrat primary campaign and much of that in the form of small donations hoping to build broad grassroots support. d.c. emancipation day is thursday, a day where district residents celebrate the abolition of slavery in d.c., but today on the house floor district delegate eleanor holmes norton claims her constituency is not as people as the rest of the country. norton explained about how the contributions of servicemen and women in d.c. who fought in foreign wars are going unrewarded. >> thousands of have died all without a vote and yet they had secured the vote everywhere they went. to this day 2015 almost 125 years after lincoln freed the first slave in the district of columbia the residents of the district of columbia are still not free. >> norton has long been a proponent of d.c. statehood and is calling for congress to stop meddling in the affairs of local budgets. today marks the 1 year anniversary of the historic kidnapping by boco haram. the islamic militants abducted nearly 300 nigerian school girls. some of the kidnapped girls managed to escape. the fate of the others, though, still not known. 20 people are recovering from minor injuries after an asiana airlines plane skidded off the runway in western japan. officials say the skid caused sparks, no flames and the plane may have touched a structure at the airport before landing. all 74 passengers were evacuated through escape chutes. passengers on a flight from seattle to l.a. have a story they'll probably never forget. after just 14 minutes in the air their plane turned around because a baggage handler fell asleep, so he says, in the cargo hold, apparently not a sound sleeper. he began yelling and banging on the aircraft floor after waking up. >> all of a sudden we heard all this pounding underneath the plane and we thought there was something wrong with the landing gear. >> there were a lot of children on the plane. i thought maybe someone was kicking or doing something on the plane. >> odd as it may seem, this has happened before in recent years. there have been at least two other similar incidents involving baggage handlers falling asleep inside planes. really? i'd be curious if they get to keep their jobs after this. >> how do you not know that you fell asleep in the cargo section of a plane? >> it would seem it might not be the first time for something like this, right? >> seems like he physical asleep naturally. he belted out one of the most powerful soul ballads in history and tonight the music world remembers percy sledge. ♪ ♪ when a man loves a woman can't keep his mind on nothing else ♪ ♪ >> sledge died of cancer this morning in louisiana at age 74. he was tireless turning out an average of 100 performances a year. sledge was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame in 2005. >> 100 performances a year? >> that's a lot. he's trying to take that hardest working man in show business title. it was 150 years ago today that president abraham ling only was shot inside ford's theater. today photojournalist james hash introduces us to the actors retelling the tragic events of that infamous night. >> there's a weight, a heaviness when you imagine what that evening must have been like. >> reporter: for james whalen the echo and smoke of booth's pistol may have faded long ago, but for the reenactors like him helping to commemorate the 150th anniversary of president lincoln's assassination it's an opportunity to share history firsthand. >> the importance of it, its historical significance, should never be lost. you have to do something to make history come alive. >> reporter: the ren actors working for ford's theater play roles drawn from the personal recollections and memoirs of washingtonians of 1865 and the memories of that rainy april night still burn brightly today. >> it's kind of like wow, i'm sitting in the theater where lincoln was assassinated. >> reporter: and long after tragic newspaper headlines gave way to souvenir t-shirts and tourist trinkets the history is not lost to these actors. >> we need to remember it and embrace it and most importantly learn from it to move forward and make life better for all of those who live in these united states and call this place our home. >> reporter: james hash, wusa9. >> tonight at 10:15 there will be a candlelight vigil at the lincoln memorial. at 6:00 he's responsible for freeing several girls kidnapped by boco haram, but he was also instrumental helping them get a fresh start here in the u.s. >> why gwyneth paltrow is only spending $29 on food this week. >> and how about some free ice cream on a rainy day? >> we're looking attiring at -- at rain and showers through the evening commute, moderate activity up 270 west of frederick, yellow, option and heavier activity prince george's county down toward -- orange and taking a look at stories trending tonight, actress gwyneth paltrow is living off $29 of food for the week, a lot of criticism about this. >> apparently that's what families on the program formerly known as food stamps are allowed to spend. so paltrow accepted this challenge from her friend and the celebrity chef who works with the food bank new york. the actress tweeted out this picture of what $29 buys, but she was quickly criticized on twitter, also online, on so many different magazine sites saying people said all food is not easily available to people in the food program. others said she should donate money and not create a poverty experience. >> for so many people poverty is a reality. this has been one of the most popular pictures shared on facebook today. sylvester stallone hosted the first photo from the upcoming rocky spinoff called creed. it shows sly training with michael b. jordan's character. in the movie johnson is the son of apollo creed who died before johnson was born. big time singer pink hit back after some rather ugly comments about her weight. >> she attended a cancer benefit over the weekend wearing this dress. some posted she looked overweight. pink wrote i feel good. please don't worry about me. i'm not worried about me and i'm not worried about you 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to occasionally moderate activity. that's good. we'll zoom in. you'll see a little heavier activity toward prince frederick and mechanicsville. notice yellow, a little orange here and there, pockets of heavy rain, nothing severe. it's slow going down 301 in southern maryland and out route 50 toward annapolis. we'll zoom in toward the beltway and it's lighter activity, light to moderate rain anywhere around the beltway with temperatures in the 50s and the rain lingering through the commute. our yellow alert continues, but the rain and showers are through the commute. bus stop temperatures nothing crazy cold behind the front, 44 to about 56 and dry in the morning. wednesday nice, grab a little light jacket. thursday clouds return. in fact, we may see rain and showers return thursday afternoon but not quite as dismal or steady as this rain. 10:00 tonight temps in the 50s, probably walk the dog. a couple showers here and there, but most of the activity is now across into the delmarva. then by morning clear skies with temperatures in the upper 40s and low 50s. clouds will try to linger to the south in fredericksburg dovetailing back into orange and luray into the shenandoah valley. 9:00 partly cloudy skies, 50s, clouds lingering south and west. by 1:00 the models are trying to bring clouds back in. i think we'll still be okay with partly cloudy skies. despite the clouds will be near 70 tomorrow which is a bit above average. if you look to the west, you see green. that's more showers. they'll stay west of us tomorrow. we'll roll in here as we get into thursday as the clouds thicken up by thursday afternoon. tonight rain, showers ending, partial clearing late, just cool, 44 to 52, wind northeast at 10. by morning partly cloudy skies and cool, temperatures 44 to about 66. break it down. 55 to start, upper 50s by 9:00, low 60s by 11:00 and mid-60s with partly cloudy skies by 1:00. right now we'll keep everything green thursday and friday, but some showers possible thursday, 65. then we're looking at 70 friday with some showers. nats come back into town thursday, friday, saturday, sunday. you can watch the nats here on 9 saturday. some showers possible, 75, not a washout. we'll keep sunday dry, low 70s, more showers and storms monday, about 70 and then a little cooler next tuesday but nice with highs in the mid-60s. three former educators will serve seven years in prison for their roles in the atlanta cheating scandal. one of the people sentenced was a regional director at the school system. the scheme to cheat on state tests is one of the biggest cheating scandals in u.s. history. actress rita wilson is taking a leave of absence from the broadway play she's currently working on after revealing she has breast cancer. wilson who is married to tom hanks told people magazine she underwent a bilateral mastectomy and reconstruction for breast cancer. she is expected to make a full recovery. we certainly hope so. the white house should be rocking tonight with some legendary performers, aretha franklin, emmy lou harris and many others singing in the gospel tradition and performance tonight at the white house. it will be broadcast june 26th on pbs. kids don't have to worry about bills, but financial experts say it is important to give them some basic tips so they can learn about the value of money. lauren lister reports. >> when the day is almost oh, we'll head to the tub -- oh, we'll head to the tub -- over, we'll head to the tub. >> reporter: bethany fisherren joys reading to her children, but -- fisher enjoys reading to her children, but when it comes to money, she enjoys showing them. >> they should learn what it should be used towards and how it should be saved. >> reporter: fisher tells her kids how much she makes every month. >> right here is $3,000. >> reporter: and what she spends it on. >> 10, 11. >> that's $1,100. >> very good. you are very right. >> that's a lot of money. >> but all this money only goes to pay one bill, rent. you want to set your values as a physical and make sure you're sharing those with your kids. >> reporter: this financial adviser believes kids should know the difference between wants and needs. she says problems happen when parents think they're protecting their kids and don't want them to worry about money. >> if you're not having the conversation about money with your children, they get into a lot of credit card debt or make really poor decisions. >> reporter: experts say parents shouldn't stress kids out about money, but passing on some simple lessons can help secure their financial future. >> money experts say one good lesson is to teach kids how to budget their allowance. now wusa9 game on sports with kristen berset brought to you by xfinity. >> it's been a rough start to the 2015 season for the washington nationals. they have just two wins and quite the dismal display yesterday surrendering eight runs in three innings thanks to a few misplayed pop-ups and other defensive errors. so not everything going as planned for the nats. they were the preseason favorite to win the world series. now they're struggling to pick up a win. in today's inside pitch holden kur shnetook to the streets to find out if the fan base is still backing the team. >> reporter: the nationals are the odds on favorites to win the world series. three of the seven usa today insiders at the sports department are saying the nationals are going to win the world series, but we know better. this is d.c. where hope and sadness kind of go together. i decided to ask the fans at nats park their expectations for the 2015 season. >> we seem a little snake bitten sometimes. i think that's why we're cautiously optimistic, but yeah, we're hoping for the best this year. it's a great team and hopefully they can pull it out this year. >> reporter: youngster, do you feel confident the nationals are going to win the world series? >> i think it's going to be a great year. getting scherzer on board i think will be great. you can't complain about the rotation. i just hope the bats with come alive and if we can put both ends together, we'll be golden. >> there you have it, cautious optimism and a baby not much to say. >> there's still a lot of ball to play. >> no need to hit the panic button but maybe some reason for concern. this isn't a bunch of new players. they just need to find that chemistry again and start to focus more. >> recalibrate quickly. >> they do have a chance to bounce back tonight playing the red sox, steve strasburg on the mound going for his first win this season as well. coming up we'll stick with the nats. matt williams was quite perturbed after that performance. at 6:00 meet the man responsible for saving several nigerian school kids kidnapped by the terrorist group boco haram and thanks to him some of the grills have restarted their live right here in the u.s. >> also ahead. >> reporter: more than 200 passengers get sick on two cruise ships that docked here [ female 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legend of the seas cruise ship arrived in san diego after 160 people on board became sick. at first this woman thought it was food poisoning. >> i was in and out of the bathroom quite a while the entire day and did feel very lethargic, very sick, very run down, couldn't really get out of bed, ended up throwing up. >> reporter: passengers say people got sick halfway into their two week trip after a stop in guatemala. >> they pinpointed potentially that it was at the port in guatemala that people got sick. >> reporter: the cdc and health officials are working to determine the cause. the legend of the seas is the 2nd cruise slip to dock here at the port -- ship to dock here at the port of san diego within 24 hours after an outbreak on board. on monday workers scrambled to disinfect the celebrity infinity which was traveling through ft. lauderdale and passed through the panama canal. 112 passengers and crew members reportedly contracted norovirus. contaminated food and water triggers the highly contagious virus whose main symptoms are vomiting and diarrhea. passengers say crew members on legend of the sea passed out pamphlets and took extra precautions. >> everywhere you went they had gel to wash your hands. >> reporter: this is the sixth outbreak of sickness on cruise ships this year. >> royal caribbean cruises owns both ships that had the outbreaks. their subsidiary celebrity cruises previously issued a statement saying workers used special cleaning products and disinfectants. thanks for watching wusa9 news at 5:00. wusa9 news at 6:00 starts right now. >> yellow alert continues through this evening, let you know when rain and showers finally exit and if we salvage a nice wednesday. >> reporter: if you thought the battle over those free range kids was over, think again. a lawsuit is coming. >> reporter: imagine. [ audio difficulties ] today that changed for tens of thousands of children in virginia. i'll explain coming up. but first our yellow alert goes on. we are in for a wet commute home tonight. thanks for being here. i'm derek mcginty. >> i'm lesli foster. topper is keeping an eye on live doppler 9000. so where are the showers now? just about everywhere. it's a very busy doppler but mainly green, but it also means a wet commute for about everybody on the way home. rain to frederick, leesburg, winchester, up to cupland, down to romney and -- cumberland, down to romney and activity south and east. we'll zoom in, around the beltway just light to moderate rain, but everybody has rain, up 270, rockville, you have rain and heavier activity by annapolis. the heaviest activity is in calvert county into charles county. see the yellows? on futurecast by 8:00 most of the rain is gone from about gaithersburg north and leesburg north, a couple leftover showers on i-66 into fairfax. by 9:00 everybody is pretty much rid of the showers. clouds, however, different story. clouds linger a while. by 10:00 temps in the low to mid-50s in the burbs, upper 50s downtown and showers about gone. we'll come back you, talk about when the clouds -- back, talk about when the clouds go away and how many nice days before this pattern returns?
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