Vice President Biden helps up a gun task force. He says he plan toss give his recommendations to president obama by tuesday. Today mr. Biden heard from the National Rifle association which is also expressing opposition to the ideas. Steve handlesman has more on what they are talking about today. Steve . The nra didnt like the way it went, but a big question is how powerful and influential is the nra here on capitol hill . And the answer might be still plenty powerful, despite the massacre in connecticut and todays shotgun shooting in california which left a student wounded. Another s. W. A. T. Team at a school. Another shooting incident. The images from near bakersfield, california hit networks as vice President Biden said hell send to president obama on tuesday a proposal to change u. S. Gun laws. Diminish the probability that what weve seen will okur and diminish the probability that our children are at risk in their schools. Reporter biden who met with hunting groups today and the nra, is expected to recommend a new ban on assault weapons and largecapacity clips. And setting up a stronger background check sim. No exceptions for gun shows and the internet market where 40 of guns get sold in and out without any check to stop sales to criminals or the mentally ill. A mass shooting survivor says changing that is job one. Not removing the second amendment, thats not what were talking about. Gun rights advocates are pushing back. The best response is to have a good guy with a gun there at the scene. To do that you need more people who are good guys with guns. Thats what it is nra said. Not enough focus on keeping children safe, says the nra, too much focus on restricting lawful firearm owners. The nra is claiming a gain of 100,000 new members since the School Shooting in connecticut. Im steve handelsman, news4, capitol hill. Defense secretary Leone Panetta welcomed afghan President Hamid karzai to the pentagon today. He received full military honors today. Karzai and panetta talked about the future in afghanistan, including plans to withdraw the majority of u. S. Troops by the end of next year. Karzai meets with president obama at the white house tomorrow. There appears to be a solid reason to keep controversial photographs of Osama Bin Laden from the public eye. That, according to a federal Appeals Court judge. A group called Judicial Watch filed a freedom of information act request for those photographs. Those photographs were taken during and after the raid in which u. S. Commandos killed bin laden back in 2011. Today in court Judicial Watch argued that the government did not provide a specific enough basis for denies the request for fraps. The judge said the government cited specific concerns that the images might be used by al qaeda as propaganda to spark andyuss sentiments. A push to move the fbi headquarters for the commonwealth. They said the fbis 11,000 employees to relocate. David culver is in springfield with details on the proposal and the potential relocation site. If Fairfax County officials have it their way, this would be the new headquarters for the fbi. Really this is just one of many sites being considered. In virginia alone you have fairfax, loudoun all gathering with a clear goal. The fbis move has been in the works for a while. The current facilities too small and falling apart. They want bigger. They need 55 acres, 2. 1 million square feet. Reporter and its got to be accessible. No question gsa would like it to be as close to Public Transit as possible and not too far outside the beltway. This Bipartisan Group coordinated by jim moran, clearly pushing for virginia. While stopping short of endorsen one specific location, they did concede springfield proves to be a strong candy. Gsa warehouse site is obviously an excellent site. Its Fairfax Countys preferred site. Fairfax county lead District Supervisor jeff mccabe wants but the incident still looms. Its this federal outpost blamed for worsening congestion along 395. He claims an fbi headquarters in springfield will not hurt commuters. We can handle a wide swath in the region if we only put the site next to a metro and next to a Commuter Rail station. Springfield just one of many contenders. The flight goes beyond virginia, but senator mark warners is confident. As lodge as this process and decision is made on the merits, then virginia will be successful. Reporter a side from the transportation issues we mentioned, there are also questions over how to properly protect a new headquarters and questions how to make it financially viable. Meantime developers have until march to submit their proposals to the gsa. Im david culver, news4. Spring georges county is also making a play for the fbi. Today we asked county executive baker for his take on Northern Virginia holding the meetings. A number of federal employees live in prince georges county. We know they made a point of how many folks live in virginia, but the number of people that live in prince georges county, the fact that we have metro sites here that you can do transitoriented department, which is what gsa has said its looking for, well have a very competitive package. Baker also said there are several options for a location. D. C. Also would like to see the fbi remain in the district. Pleasant temps out there today. Doug, as we understand, its only going to get better . I think well go down a bit through the day tomorrow, but you say better . Were really going to get warm. Coming up this weekend. Temperatures 60s. Some areas near 70. 59 in fredericksburg, 55 in manassas, 52 in gaithersburg. We came in at 56, now 57 out at the airport, so well above average by nearly 15 degrees. One thing moving our way moisture and a lot of it. We have a lot of rain down toward the south. Back toward the west, this moisture will move into our region. Tomorrow a bit of a transition day between the cooler weather and a vertebra warm weather were expecting this weekend. Well show you just how warm and whether or not youll need that umbrella anytime soon. Place say a patient who escaped from a local hospital today is dangerous. Officers are looking for a man named clayton mollenhoff. They say he has a history of violence and extensive martial arts training. Chris gordon is in tacoma park, where Police Believe the man is a danger to himself and to others. Chris . Reporter Tacoma Park Police has alerted an agency called a child is missing. They use hightech methods to locate not only children, but adults who may have mental or physical disabilities. Tacoma park police are searching for a man who escaped from Washington Adventist Hospital last night at about 9 20 p. M. Detectives are looking for 27yearold clayton mollenhoff. Police call him a cry kale missing dangerous person. He has issue with his paranoia, with a history of violence. Hes been suicidal, and hes been very aggressive and combative toward police officers. Reporter police say use extreme caution and dont approach him. Mollenhoff was seen in the we showed his picture to people there today, asking if anyone recognizes him. Have you seen him . No. Reporter do you recognize him . No. Okay. Ill out for him. Reporter he is 511, weighing between 170 and 200 pounds. A criminal record search for clayton mullenhoff turned you have several times for burglary, drugs, and assault. He has escaped in the past several times. He apparently has a lot of extensive training in martial arts, so keeping him restrained has been a bit of a challenge. He needs help and he needs to go back to the Washington Adventist Hospital. Reporter his father tells me his son was in three hospitals over four days. He hopes his son is returned safely. They say anyone with information should call them. Thats the latest live at the Tacoma Park Police headquarters. Today a former d. C. Ploirch was sentenced for 14 months in prison. He was found guilty of soliciting a transgender woman for sex outside a cvs in northwest back in 2011. When she refused, furr threatened her and a friend shot through the wish of a gun hitting three people. They all survived. The sentence was five years in prison, but the judge suspended all but 14 months on the condition he complete three years of supervised probation. A woman has filed a 6 million civil lawsuit against a d. C. Police officer and the d. C. Government. Her name is sasha evans. Her lawyer filed the suit today, claiming that officer larry seed raped her on several occasions. In july of 2011 a grand jury insited the officers. Hes accused of using a gun while forcing sex acts on three other women back in 2006. Some breaking news now from southeast d. C. Where police are investigating the first homicide of the new years. The scene is at the 2800 block of alabama avenue in southeast. Detectives say a man was stabbed there. They took him to a hospital where he later died. Please are still looking for suspects in that case. Straight ahead, sleeping pills like ambien are very popular. Why tonight the fda wants to lower dosages for women. A change in the weather, has caused some killer whales w [ male announcer ] now at your neighborhood subway the big hot pastrami melt. Weve perfected the pastrami sandwich filled with juicy pastrami, pickles, yellow mustard and melted cheese. All piledhigh on freshly baked bread. Taste one at your local subway today subway. Eat fresh. Theres some breaking news tonight about the secret Service Prostitution scandal. Nbc news has learned exclusively that two Drug EnforcementAdministration Agents facilitated a sexual encounter between a prostitute and a secret service agent. That information comes from a Justice Department investigation into the scandal, a scandal which started before president obamas trip to colombia last april. According to the record, a total of three d. E. A. Agents admitted to hiring prostitutes and arranging encounters those encounters through their government blackberries. The report found the agents lied to investigators and tried to destroy incriminating information, but prosecutors decided not to press charges. Two dozen secret Service Employees have been complicated in that scandal. Its one of the deadliest days in pakistan in years, at least 115 people were killed in a series of bombings. More than 80 were killed after the bombing of a billiard hall, another 100 people were gerald there. Earlier in the day there was an explosion at a religion on you gathering. Gerry sandusky wants a new trial. He was once an assistant football coach at penn state university, convicted of child abuse over many years. He made his first public appearance in three months in a courtroom, where hess lawyers argued he did not get a fair trial the first time around. They told the judge they did not have enough time to prepared after prosecutors turned over an overwhelming amount of material at the last minute. Sandusky is serving 30 years in prison for 45 counts of child abuse. He says he is innocent of all the charges. Tonight there are reports that a pod of trapped killer whales in canadas frozen north may have been freed overnight. The weather is the reason. A bot of killers whales may have freed themselves. Tribal elders say a break in the weather created a break in the ice, frees the trapped whales. Is the whales had been stuck under the thick arctic ice for days, each taking occurrence to breed through a hole considered tiny considering house big they are. It was in the middle of a massive ice field. The towns mayor first sounded the alarm scut the government to spend in icebreakers, because the hole was shrinking. We are very concerned. There is no icebreaker around here presently. Reporter the canadian government dispatched a team of scientists and researchers to the area to see what could have been done, and with no icebreakers nearby, officials determined the only how old for the whales survival would have been a lucky break in the weather. It looks like thats exactly what happened. Wow, thats amazing. For everything who saw the movie about a similar situation, its especially powerful seeing those whales coming up for air. What a nice day out there. It really could not get much better. The weekend i think has some clouds associated today was really a beautiful day, a high of 57 in the middle part of january, you cannot ask for a better day. Take a look out there today we had a high of 57. The record high today is 70 degrees. We were nowhere near that today, but we will be near 70 by the time the weekend is all said and done. Tomorrow not a nice day. It will be rather cool, damp with a lot of clouds. 46 in leesburg, 43 in pax river. As we look at the radar, we dont have to go too far to start to see where the rain is. Its just back through the west. Rain will be trying to make its way in here through the day tomorrow, but what has made its way in is the cloud cover. The clouds continue to persist and will pers through most of the day tomorrow, and then eventually theyll give us some rain, some muchneeded rain at that. High pressure dominating today. The clouds have now moved in. The mild weather weve had, its going to stick around. Well call tomorrow might, even though it would be fairly cool. Were still predicting temperatures to be about 50 or higher in many locations, so even with that northeasterly wind, well be on the mild side. With the shower activity with the cloud cover, its going to feel quite cool, and youll need an umbrella. Not a washout tomorrow, but we will see shower activity. Thinking about a quarter inch total precipitation. Just enough to make it wet around the region. Then on saturday, the cold front moves on through, and behind is the cold front we get warm. Temperatures on temperatures get into the low to mid 60s all across the region. Were looking at a warm period of time. This is why. It has to do with the jet stream. The jet stream has been way through canada. It will dip down through the west. Denvers high on saturday around 18 degrees, while we are going to be near 63 on saturday, and potentially 70 on sunday. But then that cold air, as it always does, has to make its way across the east. Just how much will make it here . That will be the big question. Right now it looks like colder temperatures toward the end of next week. As we move towards next weekend and inauguration day, were talking about very doled air trying to move in. How about 2009, president obama a temperature of 28 degrees at noon. Windchills were in the teens, a lot of people would like to see it warmer than this. I think well be close to this, maybe a bit warmer, but close. Are you guys going to be out there for that . Yes, we are. Bundle up. Increasing clouds, 31 to 39 as we move through the next couple days. Tomorrow afternoon, once again, mild for the temperatures, but still with afternoon showers and cloud cover, tomorrow is going to be a rather cool day. Heres the next seven days, including that very warm weekend. 63 on saturday, 70 on sunday, monday and tuesday, a very good chance for muchneeded rainfall. We hope we get that, and cooling off as we head towards wednesday and thursday, temperatures in the 40s. As i talked about, the trend here for the weekend and no falling railings does look like it could be on the cold side of things. So it goes. If it changes youll be the first to know. Appreciate it. Thank you, doug. Yesterday somebody stole a really hot cars 2005 pontiac grand am dragster. It was being stored in a trailer in noaksville, virginia. Crooks also made off with a golf cart and tools. Very expensive tools probably that were in that trailer with the car. All told it was valued at 250,000. A big change for women who take am by ambien. The fda orders drugs to reduce the prescriptions, reducing them by half. Reporter a welltraveled road for a good nights sleep could lead to Serious Problems behind the wheel, dorgd to the food drug administration. The fda advised that current manufacturing or manufacturers of sleeping pills in particular ambien or zolpodin should reduce the dose. Cut by half for female patients who metabolize it slower than men. They were it a little high to impaired risk of driving this actually just as bad as drinking and driving. Reporter there have been several driving incidents associated with the effects of sleeping pills. I remember getting on the highway and then i have no memory. Reporter Carrie Kennedy had ambien in her system, so did her cousin congressman Patrick Kennedy when he crashed into a concrete barrier in 2006. After mixing alcohol and ambien, a woman in texas said she had no memory of running over a mom and her two young girls. In illinois, 12 hour after taking ambien, a driver crashed into a construction site, killing one and injuring three others. Doctors stress the new fda requirement should serve as a wakeup call for patients. People should kind of, if they take these medications, should kind of know in their own mind what the effect is and how long it affects. Reporter and understand just how serious the effects can be. Jay gray, news4. Coming up tonight, new details. A Human Trafficking ring busted in rockville tonight how it worked and the sentence for the man accused of running it. And why metro riders can expect delays in the future. Well tell you about the Transit Agency as plan, coming up. Coming up in sports, well hear from the surgeon who performed rg3s original knee surgery. That surgeon just happens to be a redskin. I think youll like what he has to say. Also i feel like we just punched our sport in the face. Melt rho is already looking ahead to 2014, and warning riders to expect even more delays. Today the Transit Agency revealed plans to spend a big part of its budget on repairs, as news4s transportation reporter a adam tuesday found out. Its all about improving the ride. Reporter ask riders what they think, you may get two responses. I dig metro. It gets the job done. I do think its too expensive. And for what were paying, it should be better service. Reporter they