commitment. an overwhelming majority of comments on theship's facebook page suppo then execive officer now commanding officer of the enterpris captain owen honors. >> the best officer by far that i've worked under. >> reporte the former enterprise sailor says the skits were wildly popular with the majority of the crew. >> hesaturday, we crammed around the television. >>y no means do this will be tail hook part two. >> rorter: the former fighter pilot admits errors were made by captain honors but she i not sure aut the severity of those mistakes. >> at the end of the day we need to let the navy work through process. >> reporter: it a decision the na must make soon. the enterprises scheduled to deoy to afghanistan in the next couple of weeks. jay gray, news4. hile there is support for captain honors, other saors apparentlywent public with hese videos because they are concerned about his leadership. the police in delaware say a man who fought to get the vietnam veteran memorial built and who rve in the two bush administratio has been murders. his name is jo wheeler iii. his body was found at the chry island ladfull in wilmington, delawar on new year eve. he was a decorated veteran who serve the vietnam. he was a chairman of the vietnam veterans memorial fund. he served as the special assistant to t secretary of the air force here in washington for three ars. and he was a west point grad. his death was ruled a homicide but investigators wi not say how he died. the fundssued a statement. it is only fitting that we use now to rememberack wheeler who served his couny honorabl then dedicated himse to ensuring our tion's servi members are always given the respect tey deserve. >> is there a cancer cluster near ft. dietrich or not? the army base is in frederick, maryland. le believe that agent orae which is tested near th for decades, or decades ago, may be causing cancer in hundreds of people who live near the facility. agent orange is an herbicide. hower, aexperts will announce that there does not appear to be higher rate of cancer near the base than the rest of frederick county. pnce george's county police e investigating a deadly hit and run. the woman's body was found earlier this mning in ft. washingn. police stay victim was about 50. she may have been lying on the side of the road for several hours. police say the drer may not have realize th had they hit somne. >> right here in this portio of the southernart of the indian head highway, a very wooded area. very dark at night. the pedesian here had on dark clothing. no lights at all o here. it is very possible to hit something and not see it at all. >> police say they have no indication of what type of car struck the ctim. in 2010, the murder rate in d.c. hit a 46-year low. it's already been a violent start t 2011 with homicide victim in two separate shootings. among them, a tnager who was shot and killed in broad daylight in the petworth ar of nortest d.c. pa collins has our report. >> reporter: the 4500 block of new hampshi avenue northwest. a peaceful sunday afternoon, shattered by a brazen act o violence. people who live here, th heard the shots. how many gunshots did you hea >> pop, pop, pop. that's four. >> reporter: they sa the victim. >> i saw a young man live in the street. he didn't have any movent. >> reporter:eople who have lived here long time say they can't remember anything like this happening here before. i've lived here about 30 years now. and this is the rst. >> living here 14 years. i've never seen is happen before here. >> i'm really shocked. weve lived here over 40 years and i've never seen anything like this happ. >> reporter: police and sources tell the story this way. they say 16-year-old bryant and his cousin were standing here at this bus stop. they were both weang brand new north face jackets. jackets they had tten for christmas. they're approaed by to guys. one of theuys has agun. those with guys wanthe jackets. they hand the jackets oh to the two robbers and then the robber, the robberho doesn't have the gun, tells the gunman to sot him. but the gunman dsn't do it. so that roer, he gets t gun and fires off a nber of sts. bryant, he fall dead to t ground. his cousin wnded. bryant lives with his family here in hyattsville. there are pictures him on the internet. but ts is theone his family has frmed. this is the one they keep in thir house. it is his first communn picture. tan when he was 8 years old. thomas is friend. >> a sadthing. it doesn't make any sense. it doesn't make a lot of sense at all. >> what wilyou remember most abou im? his smile. his smile. he had a very impressionable smile. >> police looking for two suspects. young men. possib teenagers themselves. i'm pat collins, news4, washington. >> the victim in the other shootingesterday has been identifi as 21-year-old brian scott in upper marlboro. police say he was among three people shot in the 1300 ock. all of them wereaken to the hospital. scott later died. police are offering a $25,000 rewar in both ses. >> after a festive inaugural weekend, d.c. mayor vincent gray had hisfirst day on t job. today hehowed reportersis new offices on theixth floor of the john wilson building. the modern space was origally occupied by the former may or tony william rarelysed by the more recent mayor, adrian fenty. >> we found plants that were dead. and it didn't look like it had been used a lot. we woed hard to make it a place that feels lived in. >> repter: the new mayor has sever major appointments to make including the director of transportation. gr said he expects to make more announce. s this week. you can stay on p of his announcements on twitter. m sherwood will be tweeting about the first f days. the 112th cgress will convene on wednesday. they are planning to roll back much of president obama's agenda as quickly as they an. >> reporter: the world will be watching for the next days, weeks and months. republicans know it anthey have a plan. the first gop target will be what republicans call oba care. the plan the president signed into law last marc with all of his new members, the republican majority, new house speaker john boehr can win the appeal and it cld be close in the senate ere 23 democrats are up for re-election next year. >> peop like ben nelson in nebraska, joe manchin in west virginia. these are conservative states and they'll be lookg at how these people will beoting. presidt obama plans toeto any repeal. at the same time, keep youryes on this republica darrell issa of california he vows to investigate the obama bail youm of fannie and eddie and the oba stimulus plan, forcing white hou officials to testify. democrats a worried. bringing in people, taking them through depositis, ruining their reputations. >> reporter: and some republicans worry. the new congress won focus enough on jobs. if the projection to the public as in th media, if the projection sver time you look on tvhere is a republican screaming at president obama, that is not going to play well. >> reporter: so both sides will pl up bipartisanship like they did last month. but o all the bigissues, the battle royal is about to begin. and jim andwendy, now we know when thebig first vote will take place. a week after republicans take majority control of the huse this wednesday,to a week fm wednesday, the 12th they plan to vote to repe what they cal obama care. back to you. ocks are beginning the new year with some ne gains, thanks to some encouraging news. the dow jones average up 93 points today. e nasdaq closed 38 points higher. the s&p 500 14 points. reports released "today" show that both manufacturing activi a construction spending were up more th analysts had predicted. still ahead, australia dealing with its worstflooding in adecade. chuck berry llapsed on stage in the midle of a performance. man murdered a suburban hospital may have been targeted by a killer. agunman shot u a cruiser. arewe still seeing snow? >> we could see a lile snow in the forect. it is in the foreca and i'll have it for you comi up. will he head out to washington park. >> reporter: happy ne year. redskins park camera. you know that. the redskin season is over. that means a lot of change. and guess who is in the house. bert haynesworth. bert haynesworth. and randy sal the next, you start one feelinbit off.l fine. the moment y feel run down or achy, nip flu-like symptoms in thbud, with oscillococcinum. get oscillo and feel like youelf again. oscillococcinum, nip in the bud. we want to pay tribute. last week tommy holman died. he came to work here at nbc 60 years ago. until his retirement, 41 years later, back in 1992. his j description was stage managr. but for all of us fornate enough to have known him, he was so much more than that. tommy was a frien a supporter, a mentor. a quiet and steadingingforce, especially forome of us young ones who came inhe late '60s. we thought wwere lions and tommy let us know, we'd better grow some trteeth and mostly so brain cel. mmy made his mo to his heavenly home last week and we are so grateful for the little bitf time he was allowed to share with us. a deep well of christian anger in egypt. th bombing killed 21 peoples they left a church service on new years day. christians have vented their fury at the yptian government. yesterday a riot began afterop muslim and government officials mewith christian leaders. the christians are accusing the government of a longstanding failre to address persistent discriminaon and violence against their mmunity. 10% of egypt's population is christian. offials have described it as a natural disasterf iblical proportions. australia is dealing with its worst flooding a decade. more than 20000 people are now affected by these rising waters. chr clackum has more. >> reporter: wh an ar larg than texas underwater, austrian officials are stggling to cope with the problems they're facig. qunsland premier ys the last route into the coastal city has been inundated. a tn of 75,000 cut off by road andrail and the airpo is cled due to the flooding. >> wt's happening here is, well, i don't think we'll see it again for another 50 or 100 yes. that's the thought ofhis evenl. >> reporter: the overflong have i ever abou 30 feet above normal. and it is not expect to peak until later this week. hundreds of home have be evacuated. the military helps carry supplies to ctims. at least 2 towns and cites have been flooded or cut off. some 200,000 people affected. >> everythig. everything. >> i don't know. >> even tho not directly affected by the flooding will be feeling its effects. qensland is an important farng region and a steep surge in farming prices is expted. for those who tch the waters sllow their home and lively hoods, the price of groceries couldn'te further from their minds. chris clackum, nbcnews. president obamaas offered his conlences to the flood victim, saying the united stas is ready to offer assistance. rock 'n' rl legend chuck berry recovering from xau exhaustion. chuck berry is 84 years old now. he collaps during a concert in chicago on saturday. they escorted him off the stage. you know, thehow must go on and so chuck went back out on stag if only to geto the mike to apologize to the audience that he had to go take a rest. and one might suggest that he is, he has earned as much rest as he wants to ke. good f chuck. coming up, a burglar cght in the act thanks to cell phone app. >> one of the most active volcanos in the world. and doug returns with a look at our full forecast. 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(announcer) progresso. you gotta taste this soup. can you enjoy vegetables with sauce and still reach your weit loss goals? you can with green giant frozen vegetables. over twenty delicious varieties have sixty calories or less per serving and are now weight watchers-endorsed. try green gianfrozen vegetables with sauce. europe's most active volcano is eruptingagain. mount etna is onhe italian island sicily. it erup yesterday spewing ash nd lava into the air. it towers about 10,000 feet above sicily. it springs to life every few months. the last majoeruption was back in 2008. they're playing their song. that'she welcome song of a new york city trash truck. trash was picked today for the first time since the blizzard. the sanitation department was only able to deploy half the crew. people who live in some areas cticized the response because the snow. michael blmberg said he will work to figure out what went wrong with the whole clean-up process. >> they won't get anyore snow later this week, could they? >> they could. a storm that could come through us and then intensify once again off the coast of new england. as far as our weather concern, a little on the cold side. first day below noral in about a week. high temperature struggled rough the 40-degree mark. were looking at clear skies. a niceight if youike it cold during the winter moths. we areitting right nowt the upper 30s. at least 38 degrees. the hig today, 31. the low this morning, 28. the averge high is 43. first daybelow normal in about a week. we saw some nice days, at least on saturday high temperatur 58 degrees. very warm out there. outside,we're sitting at 37 degrees. the dew point at 10. win out of the west at fi miles r hour. temperature will fall overnight. it will be cold nig. 28 in sterling already. 30 in frederick. 30 in manassas. a littlewindchill. weave winds about five to ten miles an hour. that puts us dow to about 33 in the c. area. 27, frederick, and 31 in ltimore. the winds aren't rlly that much of a factor. even aive to ten miles an hour wind will make it feel five degrees coder. across theregion, clear ski. here's a lite system. this is a little clipper system. a very weak system but it will be enoug of a system that it will bring in somewarmer air. at least milder air. thetemperature down to the south today. mphis around 50degrees. 50 in atlanta. it doesn't seem like a lot but it will help usher in some of he more mild airnto our region for th day tomorrow. rlly, the entire nation has been on cold spell. very cold. a matter of fact, southern california piing up some snow in san diego county, a place that dsn't see a lot of snow. they definitely got sme snow over the st couple days above 3,000eet forecast to eight nches. above 4,500eet eric to2 incs. look at that snow othe palm trees. that's one place that does not see snow very often. i'm sure that guy had a hard time riding his bic back home. high essure over our area. the high makes its wayto the south and east, here come t south westerly flow dung the day tomorrow. winds, 1 to 20 miles an hour. hat will help our temperatures to rise aboutive degrees from where they were. withsome sunshie, i think we're looking at a pretty nice day. wednesday will see a frontal boundary make its way through very early in the rning. that will allow for some colder air to move back down. wednesy, a day very much like today. although i think we'll see a little more ithe way of cloud cover. stillsome sunshine. so temperare, very similar to what we saw out there tod. high presre moving back in before t anotherarea of low pressure. another clipper system moves in for the end of the week. that's the e that could pose at least someminor problems for our area as i do speck to see at least som snowfall on friday and maybe into sarday. how much? still a lot ofquestions to be answered on that. we'll continue to watch it for u. mostly lear. quite chiy. watch out for the meteor show between 8:00 and 2:00. at will be the height of the meteor shwer. 36 degrees this evenin tonight into tomorrow morning, look f partly cloudy skies to start off the day. a cold start. 21 to 28 degrees. and as we move through the day, high temperatures, a little warr. 43 to 47 degrees. not near as cold. 're calling it a nice afternoon. winds out of the southwest at 10 to 20 miles an hour. don't get used to those afternos because it will be a lile colder. a hi of 41. a high of 42 degrees on tuesday. and then there's at chance of snow. we have a list the% chance on friday and i will il call it a 30% chance on saturday as well. i do not think is will be a big one for the mid-atlantic so don't worry about that here. it could be big for plac like vermont and maine. we'll continue to watch it for you. coming up, a lot of constructionrojects to watch out for. and what washe moti for murder in the marand hospital? and a n blood test that could detect cancer cells. in haymarket, virginia, a running gun battle that started in this gat community and ended with the suspect shot. now faces attempted capital mur charges. coming up in sports, maryland introduces the new head football coach. and out here, albert haynesrth returns but he is n greeted withll smiles. now that the season is overor the redskins, players wonde the redskins, players wonde what will happen in 2011. the nextyou start onmifeeling bit off.ne. the moment you feel run down or achy, nip flu-ke symptoms in the bud, with oscillococcinum. get oscillo and feel ke yourself again. osllococcinum, nip it in the bud. the navy is questioning the actions of a commander who appears in a video loaded with profanity, homosexal slurs and sexually suggestive skits. the video was shot and aired on board the uss enterprise four years ago. it wasade public over the weekend. the new congress convenes o wedsday. republicans are coming to washington ready for a fight. now thathey have control of the house and a few more se in the senate, they plan to rll back president bama's health care plan. police say a man who fought to get the vinam memorial built a who serve in the two bush ainistrations was found murded. john wheeler iii wasound at th cherry island landfill in wilmington, delawe, on new years e. investigators won'tay how he died. tonigh we're learning more abouthe murder of an employee this week at the suburban hospital in bethea. there are still a loof unanswered questions. >> police say that murder was not a random act but the motive is still a mystery. >> reporter: who killed rooselt brockington? the 40-year-old hva engineer was ound dead in a hospital bler room on newyears day. police have released some new information regarding the crime. >>t has been confirmed that this is a homicide and that the cause of death was stab wounds. ts has been a very active investigation and at this stage of the investigati, detectives believe that the is more reason to beeve that this was not a random act. >> that comes as a b of comfo to those who live in the adow who were concerned at the height of things, thatthere may be a murderer in their midst. the fality was on lockdown afterhe crime was discovered. some of those who lived closest were tol stay locked in their me. and others say they weren't told that much. >> there should be some sort of mandated protoc to notify the immedia residential community. >> reporter: while this neighborhood may be a bit more ease, there is no such thing for the viim's family. >> for ts to happenike this, you're not even safein your own job that you work in every day and you'renot safe. it is hard. >>his mother and other family members went to the hospital at the height of the incident after speaking with a frie of roosevelt brockinon's. a friend who ha