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WRC News4 Midday January 11, 2013

Found. They found and arrested 27yearold clayton mulenhoff a short time ago. Were live in tacoma park to tell us how it happened. Reporter we were with Tacoma Park Police when they got the phone call from Rockville Police that they had located clayton malenhall. This is the man police here in tacoma park and surrounding jurisdictions have been looking for the last day and a half. Wednesday night around 9 00 p. M. He escaped from the Washington Adventist Hospital. He was on a 5150 hold, a suds watch or a selfharm prevention watch. He was in the hospital on an involuntary status to make sure he didnt harm himself. Cause of that, tacoma Park Elementary School was open lockdown status as were some other schools in the area be keith, as you mepgsed a short time ago, the Rockville Police department called the Tacoma Park Police department knowing clayton checked himself in voluntarily to a facility in rockville and they had him in custody. Detectives are on their way over there to pick him up. He posed somewhat of a danger to the public but police say no one was hurt. All right, tony, with the big news, thanks. One of the heads of the National Institutes of health says were in the middle of a flu epidemic. 41 states including maryland and virginia have reported widespread flu activity. Many doctors offices, pharmacies and clinics say they are running out of flu shots. Doctors at the Childrens National Medical Center say there arent shots Still Available throughout the area and it may take a little work to find them. Were hearing that the vaccine is out there and it might take a little bit of searching particularly for infants but were encouraging families to do what they can to get it for their children. New numbers from the cdc released new numbers. Just a mine ago, actually, saying the flu continues to spread but is weakening. And turning to the weather, grey skies out there but its warming up. If youve been outside youll feel it. Storm four meteorologist tom kierein says dont be squared of the clouds. Its warm weather youve been talking about is coming. It is for the weekend but not yet. It still chilly and we have these clouds that have been thickening and lowering over the last couple of hours and they have been producing some scattered light sprinkles around the metro area and parts of virginia. Thats all the youre moving color that. Thats all rain that is from ohio into the mountains and then east of there, across virginia, maryland, the District Of Columbia and close up few of storm team 4 radar and farther to the north, into northern adirondel county and eastern Howard County getting some sprinkles and getting a few sprinkles in the Shenandoah Valley and western maryland and more somewhat moderate rain south of fredericksburg and thats going to move to Southern Maryland. Right now, Charles County is getting a few sprinkles as well. Temperatures are chilly all throughout the areas in light blue and its in the mid 40s around the metro area and probably will warm up about another five degrees or so by later this afternoon but look at the mild air pushing to West Virginia and ohio valley near 60 degrees. As the mild air comes in after the rain comes in overnight, that is probably going to create some dense fog. That will be coming in later tonight. Well talk about that and the big warm joup for the weekend and a look into next week in a few minutes. Tom, thanks. Lets check your mid day traffic with Mike Cremedas in for danella seabrook. How we look something. Not too bad on the beltway but a few fenderbenders to worry about. Traffic is getting by to the right. Some activity northbound add 395 at 14th street bridge. Live to camera and you can see traffic is getting by and causing a delay at the scene and on 395 itself, a 12minute ride from the beltway to the scene and 55 miles an hour. Back to you in the studio. Thanks, mike. Right now, president obama is meeting with afghanistan President Hamid karzai at the white house and they are discussing several topics include what can the role of the u. S. Will be in the country of afghanistan. What afghanistan will be when the war ends next year. This is the first time the two leaders have met facetoface since president obama was reelected. A News Conference is scheduled for 1 15 this afternoon. You can watch it live right here on news4. Well also stream it live on nbcwashington. Com. And the pentagon is bracing for another budget battle on capitol hill taking steps to prepare to deal with billions of dollars in cuts. Defense secretary leon panetta is asking his department to brace for those cuts if Congress Fails to reach an agreement on a final spending plan. The Defense Department will start freezing civilian hiring and it plans to delay awarding some contracts. And hold off on some maintenance as well. The pentagon is facing nearly a half trillion in cuts over a decade. And Inauguration Day is now just over a week away. This morning, a big change in plans. The pastor who was supposed to give the ben diction at the swearing in will no longer do so because of antigay comments he made 15 years ago. The reverend removed himself from the service after getting criticized for a sermon where he preached that therapy could turn gay people straight. The Inauguration Committee said it did not know about the sermon at the time of his selection. Meantime things are taking shape for the big day. Its estimated 40,000 people will pack two inaugural balls the night of the inauguration. The inauguration collectibles will soob be available and the official inauguration store opens today at noon at f and 11th streets northwest. And parade marchers will hold a practice parade this sunday through the streets of washington. Today the u. S. Air force band is getting ready for the big parade. News4 Megan Mcgrath got on inside look at the preps. Reporter the inauguration is just a little more than a week away. And all kinds of preparations are under way. You can see behind me, the u. S. Air force band held their formal dress rehearsal this morning. Theyll be performing during the parade. They sounded absolutely fantastic and they say they are ready. They are train professionals who regularly play before dig terri okita dignitaries. But being part of the inaugural parade is something special. I wanted to be ap conductor and here i am, im 29 year old old and im turning 30 but i never thought i would do this on this kind of scale. This is peters first inaugural performance. And its also the first time for colonel bill knight. I took an oath to the constitution and what better way to reenforce that oath than to get us to participate in the president ial inauguration. The u. S. Air force band and honor guard held a dress rehearsal in a hangar at giant base andrews this morning. From the look of it, theyre ready for the big day. Everything has been meticulously planned and rehearsed. Theres just one unknown out there. The weather. We may be experiencing springlike temperatures this week, but four years ago, the bands marched in belowfreezing temperatures. Colder it gets the harder it is to play the instrument in tune. Harder to play at all, for that matter so we hope it did you want get to that point. We want to, at least, moderately warm and sunny. Be well prepared. We have over garments and ear muffs and gloves and things and well be find. Were an allweather air force and well be an allweather air force on inauguration. And for some, theres another challenge. One of the hardest things is were not supposed to smile. Its part of military bearing and i got to tell you the more i do this the harder it is to retain that and keep it within but inside im just going to be glowing. Its overwhelming. The thousands and thousands of people and sometimes chachbting usa, usa the patriotism is huge and to help spur that on is a great feeling. It makes you stand taller and march prouder. And, the parade will go along constitution avenue to pennsylvania there in front of the white house. The u. S. Air force band is towards the end of the parade. Theyre going to perform for the president around 5 00. From Andrews Joint base, Megan Mcgrath news4. And we have some breaking news for you. Change coming to the stands at fedex field. It could be a sad day for some redskins fans. One of the teams biggest traditions is no more. The famous redskins hoggettes are breaking up. We just talked with head hog yooet Michael Tolbert and he confirms that they are disbanding. He says that it is just a different era now. Once again, you wont be seeing hoggettes at redskins games anymore. Man, we just had mikey t on the show and i gave him a chest bump and everything. I know. You never know. Maybe thanksgiving resurrect the hoggettes at some point. Its 11 09. Coming up in the next block, Vice President joe biden has more meetings today in his effort to come up with new gun control measures. But it was the nras turn this morning. What the groups president said compromising. And boeings newest and most technologically advanced plane is getting a yesterday, the nachlt ra joined the dpis cushion and said the task force has a agenda to attack the second amendment. This morning on the today show, matt lauer asked the Vice President why they arent closer to a compromise where the white house. We have a profound disagreement with this administration, first of all, on what would make a difference. We dont think that a bannen socalled assault weapons which hadnt worked in the past will work this time. We think many of those proposals are basically, feelgood proposals and what we really need to do is get to the question of why this is happening and what can be done about it. So, i dont think theres any lack of concern about dealing with the problem. I think theres a very different view as to what the problem is and how to solve it. Vice President Biden says he will present hid recommendations to president obama on tuesday. Today, speak of of the house, john boehner, invited president obama to deliver the state of the union on february 12th. Now, on to that story about the wales we told you about. Some good news, the whales were trapped underneath ice in canada and theyre out of harms way at least for now, the ice has shifted and the waters have opened up. Scientists say shifting winds may have pushed the ice out of the way. The whales arent out of the woods yet. The ice couldnts to so they could get trapped elsewhere. Could that mean a warmup in that area . Tom is getting on me for saying its feeling warmer here already. Its just a suggestion. But im jumping the gun, not until tomorrow . Snow lovers and snow haters are crying. Both of them. And some of them are crying tears of. Some of them are crying hot tears of despair. We havent really had any snow to speak of so far this winter and it doesnt look like much on the way either. But it is snowing hard in Eastern Canada and theyre hit with a major blizzard in st. Johns new finland and weve had a beautiful sunrise this case you missed it this is what it looked like. This was the dawn sky over the Potomac River from our news4 hd city camera. Its been retweeted all over the woorld. Amazing how it spreads. Follow me on twitter and friend on facebook. And this photo was posted by 11yearold lara. Great picture. Shes a really good photographer. This was of the sunrise yesterday morning. Post your pix nbcwashington. Com. And heres a live view from the city cam. We have some rain coming in and its advancing off to the north and east but not much. Weve had a few strifls around the metro area this morning and heavier rain in western pennsylvania and eastern ohio, thats going to pass to our north and behind that we have some really mild air that will begin to move in. Right now some sprinkles. The areas in green in Prince Georges County and adirondel farther south to Charles County and southern fair dpax, Prince William, stafford, and passing off north and east to Southern Maryland and the Northern Neck over the next half hour or so. Farther north and west, a few sprinkles in northern Shenandoah Valley and temperatures are in the mid 40s. Were in the low to mid 40s in montgomery, arlington, fairfax, Prince Georges County and much more mild care coming in to the mountains as we have this big storm system bringing in milder air into the midwest and that will continue to sweep off to the east and come our way overnight. When it comes in it will likely trigger quite a bit of fog. As we go forward with the feature weather a lot of heavier rains passing to our north but not much, probably less than a quarter of inch of rain around the metro area. A lot of cloudiness tonight and patchy, dense fog, saturday morning around 11 00 a. M. Still, fog around and during the afternoon. Maybe some thin spots in the cloud cover and still, mild weather moving in. And then as we get to sunday, theres going to be another weather system getting close in the mountains but ahead of that, lots of cloudiness and mild still. Rain moves in on monday. For this friday afternoon, expect when youre coming back from work or school or back home later in the day, well have temperatures near 50 with rain likely moving through. And overnight tonight, that fog coming in after the rain ends early evening down to the mid 40s by midnight and then by dawn tomorrow, maybe some lingering fog and then over the weekend, well have that soaring temperature and then it plummeted by the end of next week. It will be feeling like january again. Here are the detauls. Well have the temperatures 60s tomorrow near 70 on sunday. And then, back down to the 40s, generally, on tuesday, wednesday, thursday and after some earlyweek rain. Thats the way it looks. Thanks, tom. And were going to check on your mid day traffic. Mike cremedas whats the latest . Keith looking good on the beltway with no Serious Problems on the inner or outer loop and good news on northbound 39 on the 14th street bridge. There were doing sign work and its out of the way. Here we are at duke street. No serious backups. Further north at the bridge, throws delays are cleared up and its 13minute ride on northbound 395 from the beltway to the 14th street bridge at 51 miles an hour. Barbara . Keith . 11 18. Still ahead on news4 midday, if first big award show is this sunday night. Well tell you who we think will take home a prize. And makeup secrets from the artist who will handle all the first ladies inaugural events and has worked on some of hollywoods biggest stars. Before copd. I took my son fishing every year. We had a great spot, not easy to find, but worth it. But with copd making it hard to breathe, i thought those days might be over. So my doctor prescribed symbicort. It helps significantly improve my lung function starting within five minutes. Symbicort doesnt replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. With symbicort, today im breathing better. And that means. Fish on symbicort is for copd including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. It should not be taken more than twice a day. Symbicort may increase your risk of lung infections, osteoporosis, and some eye problems. Tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high Blood Pressure before taking it. With copd, i thought id miss our family tradition. Now symbicort significantly improves my lung function, starting within 5 minutes. And that makes a difference in my breathing. Today, were ready for whatever swims our way. Ask your doctor about symbicort. I got my first prescription free. Call or click to learn more. [ male announcer ] if you cant afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. Whether youre planning a special weekend or maybe you have an invite to an inaugural ball theres some makeup secrets that will make you look and feel special. Makeup art itself of the stars, can la ray is in the house with tips and carl, youll handle the first ladys inaugural events. Up to be proud to be a part of history . Very much so. So now, dont just do the first lay day and Hollywood Stars you do the every day people. Youre going to show us how to make up a woman whos on the go, wants to go out for the evening whether its a bigtime event or simple event, quickly. I generally start with what shes done already. Cleansed her skin, prepped it, misize moisturized it. I start with the eyes or lips. Whichever is the focal point. Well go with eyes today. Ill start with the eyes. We already prepped her skin. Those are the two areas where you start, eyes or lipping, in your opinion . Correct. So what exactly are you doing to ashleys eyes . Im putting on a base color for the lid, lash line, all the way up to her brow, the complete area. So we have a good base to work with so i can add some smoke into this. How long generally, should you would you advice women to start on that focus area whether its the eyes or lips. Were talking about getting on the run here. I would start on the eyes immediately. Thats the first thing. And how long would you take . Maybe two to three minutes. Two to three minutes on the eyes. You did the foundation as you mepgsed previously. How long generally should women take on the foundation. I would no longer than four minutes, maybe two minutes. Two minutes for the up and down days and two minutes on the eyes. You have to conceal so you have to worry about the concealer. That helps. So what did you just add to ashleys eyes. An allover base. Just a bare shade and a put a shimmer on the lid and im come back with some shadow like ta

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