Peoples right to bear arms in this country. Reporter its clear, gun control alone cannot win. The issues bigger. If we dont deal with the stub stance abuse issues and Mental Health issues this lead to violence, we are shortchanging this conversation. Reporter biden agrees. The president is going to act. Executive orderers, executive action that can be taken. Orders can be taken. Executive orderers action that can be taken. Reporter a conversation about large magazines might provoke a smaller fight, maybe provide the white house with a win but something more dramatic, like an attempt to ban the sales of militarystyle weapons, looks like that could provoke a major battle. Im steve handlesman, news4. Thanks, steve. Dr. James andrews says that knee surgery on Robert Griffin the third was a success. Dan hellie with more. Dan . A fully recovery is expected. After performing fivehour surgery on the right knee of Robert Griffin iii, dr. Andrews released the following statement. Griffin is expected to remain in florida, where he will start his rehab. The first six to eight weeks considered crucial determining how long his recovery will take. Depending what doctors talk to the Recovery Time anywhere from six to 12 months. Rg3 did post this message on twitter prior to surgery. In sports, player reaction and guys got their take on what they think about rg3s potential return. At 6 30, pat collins with taking the pulse of redskins nation on the surgery on rg3s knee. A developing story out of Prince Georges County tonight a 19yearold day care employee is facing child abuse charges after a witness captured an incident on video. On monday, coupling was charged with child abuse and assault. He has admitted to kicking a child. Charged with 35,000 bond. There could be more victims. Police arrested a hit and run driver in an accident that killed a man, douglas ray burn. On december 23rd, ray burps car was rear ended by a pickup truck, force it had off the road on route 17. Virginia state Police Troopers say the truck driver ran away from the scene. Ray burps wife also was seriously injured in that accident. Today, the police in culpepper arrested Diego Mendoza in that crash. He is being held without bond. Firsttime offenders could be forced to use ignitionlock Safety Devices to start their cars. Tom sherwood is here with the new plan. Reporter the old breath test machine simply didnt work. Now the city is stepping up enforcement. A volunteer wednesday tried out the districts new breath test machine. The machine replaces faulty equipment that forced city to abandon breath tests two years ago. Now city police have the new machines to help crack down on drunken or Impaired Driving anywhere in the city. I dont think there is any acceptable excuse for it someone who is driving under the influence or driving drunk is actually like a moving missile. Reporter at a News Conference of politicians, played an Prosecutors Police and prosecute terse citys morgue were shown the new test and first offenders could be forced to use ignitionlock devices. Allow them to drive the vehicle, go to work, support their family, do the thing these need to do but in a safe manner. Reporter about 1800 people could be subject to the ignition lock system each year and fines are also going up for drunk drivers who have children in the car. There is nothing more heartbreaking for a Police Officer than to respond to the scene of a crash where theres a child, inspect child victim. And we wont tolerate adult who put their childrens lives at risk. Reporter 1400 people were arrested from halloween to the holidays. Something else we learned, halloween, not new years, is the busiest drunk driving time for city police. Doreen . Thank you. The u. S. Supreme court today began looking at a case that could change the way drunk driving cases are handled. At issue is whether police must get a warrant before they order a blood test. Today, the aclu argued that the procedure violates Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches. Lawyers for the bodice agree with that. They say that evidence could change while waiting for a warrant. Supreme Court Justices are expected to make a decision this summer. A car slammed into a tree a car slammed into and killed two highway construction workers in cecil county this morning. A man driving in a west bound lane of route 40 veered out of his lane, past the orange cones and barrels. Victor jackson of northeast d d. C. And luis ta he ta head d were killed. Solis made a decision to leave this afternoon after the discussing it with family and Close Friends and president obama is expected to name white house chief of staff jack lew as treasury secretary tomorrow. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton says she is thrilled to be back on the job. Clinton made her first Public Comments today since her health scare. She was hospitalized for several weeks for a concussion and blood clot. It doesnt mean she is retiring but only stepping off the fast track for a moment. Quite a temperature shift today. To the north, a chilly afternoon. To the south, much warmer. Kammerer, whats going on out there . Quite amazing out there, jim. Some areas in the low 40s today. Others in the low 60s. All depends on where you live. North and west, much colder. South and east, much warmer. All because of our frontal boundary. That front moving through the region, everybody saw at least some clouds during the day today, showers came across the region. Look at these numbers, 67 around richmond, but 49 in hagerstown. A huge temperature swing and even bigger swing when you look at our immediate area. What are we seeing out there now . Temperatures of 45 degrees. Winds out of the south, 3 miles an hour, partly cloudy skies. I will let you know what to expect as our system moves out and whats moving in behind t thanks, doug. The new legislative in maryland is under way now. There are controversial topics on the table. Among them, lawmakers are considering eliminating the Death Penalty. Chris gordon has our report. Reporter five prisoners are currently on marylands death row. The last execution in the state was in 2005. After that the court of appeals ruled the states Death Penalty regulations are improper and have to be rewritten. But instead of doing that, Maryland GovernorMartin Omalley has tried repeatedly to get the state legislature to repeal the Death Penalty. This year, he believes he will be successful. Im hopeful leaders in the senate and the house will step forward and acknowledge that the truth that the Death Penalty is expensive and it doesnt work. It seems to me that anything the government does, which is expensive and ineffective, should be repealed, if only for those reasons. Reporter Death Penalty repeal has more support in the house of delegates than the senate where it has died in committee year after year. This session, if 24 senators can be found to support it Death Penalty repeal could be brought to a vote. The Death Penalty is not working in the state of maryland. Whatever reason it is not working. Courts find some way to overturn them. They are very expensive. I still believe in them. The d. C. Snipe her, he changed his clothes on my property. I had an employee that testified at his trial. R, he changed his clothes on my property. I had an employee that testified at his trial. Reporter those that favor keeping the Death Penalty say it maybe the one thing that deters the most violent criminals. Im opposed to the repeal of the Death Penalty at this point in time i believe there are very rare instances were an individual should be executed. Nothing else, says to that person no way, shape or form they could ever, ever be back on the street. Reporter the repeal of marylands Death Penalty is so controversial that even if it should pass the maryland general assembly, chances are opponents will circulate petitions to put it to referendum so that Maryland Voters can ultimately decide. In annapolis, chris gordon, news4. Straight ahead on news4 at six, people went flying everywhere, a ferry in manhattan crashes into a dock. Evidence now laid out against the alleged shooter in the movie massacre in colorado. A daytime robbery inside a jimmy choo in montgomery county. Not you are a ave a bit of a surprise on this, the final day of the plea limbnary hearing for the man accused in that massacre at a colorado movie. Today, defense lawyers for james holmes announced that they would not present evidence or call any witnesses to speak on the suspects mental state. That announcement came after the prosecution presented new evidence, including photographs of holmes taken hours before the shooting. He had black contact lenses on and he just looked very evil and he sat in the courtroom pretty much delighted. A judge will now decide if is there enough evidence to continue with the trial. Holmes is accused of killing 12 people and injuring dozens of others in that shooting last july. New york city the morning commute ended with a trip to the hospital for more than 70 people and left nearly a dozen with serious injuries. A ferry coming in from new jersey failed to stop and slammed into the dock. Chris clackum has more on the terrifying moments for the passengers. Reporter the gash on the ferry may not appear that severe, but the injured sprawled out on the loading barge shows the impact certainly was. It literally just hit the barge and hit it hard. Reporter ferry was making a routine midmorning rush hour run into manhattan from new jersey with 327 passengers and crew on board when it hit the dock as it approached the pier. It was entirely normal. Everything was normal. You know, we rolled in slowly like we normally do, but it didnt stop in time. The next thing i know, i was six feet in the air. I woke up from a being knocked out. Reporter firefighters and rescue workers rushed to the scene, as did mayor michael bloomberg, while medics tended to the some six dozen people hurt, two critically with head injuries. Other passengers were worried the boat was sinking. They thought they were gonna take water on, so the captain was yelling really fast, get help, cause i guess they thought they were really going to go down. Reporter the ntsb has sent a team from washington to investigate what happened while the ferry companys president says the crew was tested immediately after the accident. The breathalyzer crews have been reported to be negative for the crew. Reporter although some witnesses say the ferry pitched to one side when passengers quickly lined up on that side to disembark. Chris clackum, nbc news. Over the middle eastern part of the world, theres been recordbreaking rain and rare snowfall over the past several days. Today, even more snow fell in israel and in the west bank. Parts of jerusalems old city have flooded along with places on the gaza strip. Business also to find ways to gets the water out of their stores. Waves were high in the port city of gaza city. Thats the kind of thing you dont see very often. Wow. We had some wet weather u x unexpected today. Happened to be falling when i was coming out from lunch and i was thinking i dont remember doug mentioning this. Got to call you out. Yeah. Whats it like being under the bus, man . She just tossed you. Did you know it was raining outside . What is going on there . I didnt have an umbrella. I said last night at 11 00 you did . This front would move through and it would be a dry front. And it rained on you. So, dore reasons the onin do only one who saw rain. I was caught in it too by the way. Five minutes. I was caught in it too High Temperature 50 degrees,. 01 inch of rain at the airport, not a lot but more than i expected, the front rolled on through here. That front really creating a huge difference. What a difference in the temperatures across the area today a High Temperature of 50 in december, 43 the average, we were well above that i thought we would be in the mid50s today. Some of you were into the 60s. Look at the highs, 43 in frederick, maryland, 63 in fredericksburg, virginia, a 23degree temperature difference a short span, winchester, 54 only 45 in leesburg, because of that frontal boundary, it moved on through here, much warmer area to the south and east, cool air stayed locked energy as it often does in our region, during date toda the day today. 39 in manassas, look at fredericksburg, still at 62. 39 to 62. What a difference that warm air just down to our south but continue to push down to the south, the cold front does the same. Mostly cloudy, chilly to the north, still mild well to the south. Temperatures 37, the coldest areas to near 50. Some of the warmest spots, 8 00 tonight. The radar not showing anymore rain. Not going to see any of that, here is where doreen is here, no rain there now either, i think she is going to be okay. As we move on through the next couple of days, our frontal boundary moves to the south and east. One thing you notice, we still have that stream of the flow moving across our region. I think we will still see some cloudiness, make our way through the night tonight and in through the day tomorrow before our next storm system starts to move on n our one cold front moves through and behind it, we stay on the mild side. Temperatures five to ten above average tomorrow, for most of us, High Pressure starts to move n notice the clouds, back during the day tomorrow, call it partly sunny, a mix of sun and clouds today. Then into the mild air. Temperatures on the cool side, we watch our frontal boundary down to the south. A slight chance of friday, the warm air, just down to the south and west and i think everybody will see that look at what im thinking here, the coldest air of the season moves into the west. Denver could be near 18 on saturday. Our saturday . How about 63. What a difference that is. Ed cold air will eventually move in in the middle to late next week, the biggest question with this is, we know its going to get colder, just how cold is this going to be . Could be the coldest air of the season but also stay a little bit farther to the north. Going to be watching this one very closely, a tough forecast the next couple days. What you need to know. Tomorrow morning, a few clouds, chilly, temperatures 28 to 35. Tomorrow afternoon, sun and clouds, cool, but above average once again. Temperatures 47 to about 52 degrees. As we move through the next couple of day we will see numbers go up, 52 on friday you a 40 chance of showers, 63 on saturday, 68 on sunday, some of you may get to near 70 on sunday, right knew good chance of rain on monday and tuesday, too. Watching this storm system carefully, we are going to be right on the edge of some very warm and cool air in the middle. We will see rain. Some could be heavy. We will watch out for that right now the weekend is looking very, very good. In most peoples houses. Hold off on the really cold stuff until just after the inauguration, okay . Im trying to work on that but looks like thats about the time the cold air might move n. Figures. Thanks, doug. More than 100 baby chicks are safe at a new home after own expected stop here in washington. A shipment of 106 baby chicks destined for alabama wound up somehow in a d. C. Post office. Knowing the little birds wouldnt survive another trip, posta. M. Workers called the Washington Humane Society and their team built a makeshift home while they found a permanent home for the chicks i at a farm sanctuary. Poor guys. Tonight, a Fairfax County teenagers inspirational story. Paralyzed six months ago. Today, going back to class. A highspeed chase in baltimore lasted half an hour. See the ending, coming up next. In sports, john wall is inching closer to a return. Turgeons terps are streaking in the right direction and rg3s teammates react to his acl and many people fondly remember that moment at the last inauguration, beyonce singing etta james classic at last at the first inaugural ball of president obama. This year, she will be front and center again, performing the National Anthem at the president s swearing in. Kelly clarkson singing my country tis of thee, james taylor will perform america the beautiful. A Security Camera at a chevy chase home captured a suspected thief looking for valuables. The jeep was parked outside a house on village park place over the new years holiday. Montgomery county police say the dproors unlocked. Investigators report that 90 of thefts from vehicles are because they were not locked. The governors big Transportation Plan was high on the agenda for the legislative session today. Julie carey found out emotions are already running high on an issue. I have seen some screw ready up bill screwed up bills in life, this takes the cake. Reporter that was the very blunt answer about the major Transportation Plan from governor mcdonnell. The plan to raise 3. 2 billion over the next five years relies on scrapping the 17. 5cent gas tax on vehicles and hiking the state sales tax from 5 to 5. 8 . Tim how long zboet bills xpop sore. The perfect is mortal enmoist good. We have a very good bill that can create jobs here in virginia, Northern Virginia and improve the quality of life for every day folks. Reporter but even some fellow republicans are already expressing doubts about the governors plan. Antitax groups fear it could put a higher tax burden on virginians, something Loudon County senator dick black says wont fly in his district. My district is probably the most antitax district in the state. I think thats pretty commonly acknowledged. So, you know, i dont vote against my constitu