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At this house. They were always doing something for their kids or grandkids. A family spokesman told me that one of the children the 8year old lexi was preparing for her first communion. It literally broke just seconds ago as we were going on the air. They found two additional bodies in their search today, bringing the total number of the human remains to four. There are still two people unaccounted for at the scene of the tragic fire. Reporting live in annapolis, scott broom wusa9. Devastating news. Thank you. New tonight at 5 00, a man is dead after a fire in arlington. Which started this morning in the 2100 block of south randolph. The man was trapped, but they pulled him out. He later died at a hospital. It took 70 firefighters to put out those flames. The annual march for life filled the streets of washington today as prolife supporters descended on the supreme court. As mark alberts report, it comecomes Congress Takes on the antiabortion bill. Reporter thousands march on the anniversary of the supreme courts roe verses wade decision. Michael williams came down from rochester, new york with his church. Jamie traveled here from long island. Im here because im pro life. Down the street the gop house took up the bill banning the use. The nays are 179. Reporter house leaders scheduled to vote to coincide to vote is to coincide with the antiabortion rule. This is not a gift from the Republican Party to these people. This is a gift from our creator himself. So the whole thing is a hoax. It was just meant to feed the base. Reporter they objected to the bill and an earlier one that the house was going to take up, banning most abortions after 20 weeks. But that bill was pulled wednesday night after some dop women protesttest some gop women protested. It turned in to a titan tick titanic. Yes, i do, indeed. Reporter the white house has threatened to veto on the bill that ultimately passed on a party line vote. Mark albert for cbs news, washington. The bill is headed to the senate where it is unlikely to gather the 60 votes needed to be approved. Big safety changes tonight in the way of the tragedy that killed one person and sent more than 80 others to the hospital. Bruce leshan is live at metro headquarters with the break down. Bruce . Reporter yeah, lesli and jan, metro is implementing these changes, even before the ntsb figures out exactly what happened. That it is one of the big changes that simply has to do with the train operator that will be able and allowed to immediately cut off the ventilation system inside the drain. The smoke from the electrical fire in the tunnel a week ago on monday and that he actually had to call metros control center for permission to cut off the vents that were bringing smoke from the tunnel in to the drain, leaving hundreds of people suffocating inside. Metro now has rewritten their standard operating procedures, so now the minute that they would stop for smoke, the operator is suppose to shut off the air intake. Metro has also worked with dc fire and they have adjusted the configuration, where their antennas would intersect with their fires radio station. That metro says that the firefighters radios, they now work inside the tunnel throughout the system. The ntsb says they did see some issues as well when they tried to check out the ventilation fans that should have blown all that smoke out of the tunnel. Metro says it is now inspecting and adjusting several hundred fans and ventilation shafts. The fans work. They can exhaust out, they can feed in, and they werent doing the correct direction as they were suppose to do. Even when they were turned on . Correct. Reporter and now metro, they are also trying to figure out if they need to harden up the cables that jumped the electricity from one section of the third rail to the next. That is where a short lead to the arcing fire that caused all that smoke. Now coming up at 6 00, was that train unable to move out of the tunnel and get to the platform because there was another train already abandoned in that station . Or was Something Else going on . Were going to take a look in an hour. Reporting live at metro headquarters, bruce leshan wusa9. Another noreaster is on the way as they are tracking whether they would show you that. And it will be a cold miserable side. And that they would be missing a great opportunity. Looking forward to a cold rain. Now tonight no worries. At 8 00 in gaithersburg, 33 in manassas. By 10 30 that it will be pretty much across the board for the suburbs. Friday starts out nicely, but then by 6 00 the clouds roll back in. By 8 00 we have rain showing up already. 39, a cold rain, 36 in leesburg and 35 in manassas. Again, this is tomorrow night at 8 00. Youll see a little bit of the mixed precipitation back in the valley. Well advance it again by 10 00 at night where there could be mixed precipitation, maybe towards leesburg and upper Montgomery County and up around i70. The bulk of this is going to fall as rain with a pretty good soaking rain that it would be as i would make sure that you can see all the yellow here, moderate rain rolling in, just after midnight on saturday with temperatures in the 30s. Well come back and talk about when we will dry out on saturday and look ahead to the other clipper on monday. Breaking news right now for prince georges county. Sky 9 over a murder scene in laurel. Police tell us that the n was found shot to death in the 8200 block of imperial drive. Now at this point we dont have a lot of information as the 9 news crew is now heading to that scene and as soon as we would get more details for you we will bring them to you. New tonight at 5 00, Howard County police need your help to find a suspected rapist in columbia, maryland. The woman said that the man walked up to her outside the apartments, which are in the 8900 block of kmart drive. She says that the man tried to talk with her and then pulled her in to that empty apartment where he raped her. Now the woman said that the man, they had short dread locks or braids that he was possibly in his 30s and that she also thinks that she saw him near the apartments in the last week. In northeast dc, police are looking for these two robbers. That this happened last tuesday in the 1300 block of florida avenue northeast as they would walk in to the store, forced that Cash Register open, took the cash, and they ran. If you could identify them, give police a call and there is a 10,000 reward up for grabs. A guilty plea today from a former baseball player in the Baltimore Orioles farm system. The 42yearold eric estes admitted that he sexually abused the teenage girl that lived with the family in 1997. In exchange for the guilty plea, prosecutors are recommending that he receive three years supervised probation and register as a sex offender. He lived for the family while playing for the base sox. New information tonight on the man accused of three high profile alexandria murders. There were courtroom outbursts yet again from Charles Severance. He has not cooperated in taking a mental evaluation, sot judge ordered the man so the judge ordered the man accused of killing the three to get a complete evaluation. Well learn more about those outbursts and what a longtime friend who visited him in jail has to say about his mental state. The new governor larry hogan released his first Budget Proposal today and it seems to balance the states spending. It calls for general Fund Expenditures of 16. 4 billion on projected revenue of that same amount. It includes no state Agency Layoffs or furloughs, doesnt call for any tax cuts, but hogan has said he will propose tax cut separately in the coming weeks. Hundreds of people are in a temporary shelter because of a massive fire in new jersey. The Apartment Building in edge water just across the hudson river from new york city. 250 firefighters battled more than 14 hours before bringing those flames under control. Edgewater schools are closed and the city is in a state of emergency as they would struggle to figure out their next steps. Im not thinking whats next. Nextinvestigators are figuring out what caused it that there are still hot spots throughout the complex that they would em all out. In florida, a toddler is dead after finding his fathers handgun. Investigators say that the 2 yearold boy was in the family car while the 23yearold parents loaded up the boxes all preparing to move. And while somehow that the boy opened up the glove compartment and they accidentally shot himself. The sheriff, they would call that case a tragic situation and said that the parents, they will not face charges because no one could punish them more than they would punish themselves. A pair of streets in brooklyn will soon bare the names of two officers killed on duty. The shooter ambushed officers rafael ramos and wen chenliu as they were sitting their car in brooklyn. Im peggy fox in richmond, where medical marijuana takes a very emotional turn in the Senate Committee hearing this morning. Coming up, ill show you what happens. Plus, its the Super Bowl Ad you wont see on tv. Later the message behind this revealing commercial. And a secret stash of cash. Find out just how Many Americans are hiding money from their spouses. Youre watching wusa9 they are building snow men in texas today. This is in southwest texas, not even 200 miles from the border. And ice is even possible tonight as they will be bundling up with the sub freezing temps through tomorrow morning if you can believe that. All right, were going to be talking to topper on whether or not were going to see some snow this weekend. The possibility of rain or snow or both. Well get an update from topper pretty soon. If youre a snow lover and you know that i am that we are missing a great opportunity this weekend. Ill tell you why. Live look outside. The weather cam. Temperature is at 46. Thats a bargain for this time of the year. Dew points have fallen. So with the dew points in the mid20s and 40s, with generally clear to partly cloudy skies tonight. Everybody goes below freezing. Okay, this is a pretty big storm, kind of the classic gulf of mexico storm dumping anywhere from six to eight inches of snow in west texas with a lot. Spreading across louisiana and mississippi. So this will take a pretty good track where it is almost a perfect track for if youre a snow lover for noreaster. We dont have any cold air for you. But primarily a rain event, it bares watching no doubt. But right now were favoring mainly rain. Colder, but quieter tonight. 20s and 30s. The bus stop temperatures, 25 to 36, but no windshields tomorrow morning. Then snow will develop tomorrow night if you want to be inside at home before the rain and snow develops, trying to get before 8 00. If you live south of town. And mainly rain, which will be the main precipitation to it, not because you could see the end of it, the onset. But it is not big snow. 6 00 a. M. In the morning, 20s in the suburbs, low 20s downtown. The clouds roll back pretty much cloudy from leesburg to dc. Here comes the precipitation. It will be a cold raw night on friday. Youll see the magenta here that could be a little bit of the mix along i70 and north of winchester, which will be the best chance for anything in terms of mixing with the snow as the precipitation is heavy enough to maybe drag down just enough cold air to mix with it. But still the temperatures are above freezing. 34 in hagerstown. Even there that you wont see any problems, but we will watch it for you as you always watch those carefully. Tonight, clear, partly cloudy to about 32. The winds are northwesterly at 5 to 10. So we will break it down. 32 to start. These are downtown temps. The low 40s with the sunshine at 1 00. And it will be really cold for the polar plunge. And that the temps will be in the 30s when you do that. Now, pleasant on saturday, the clouds come back. The other clipper comes at us, cold in the wake of that clipper on tuesday and wednesday in the 30s. And with the highs back in the mid40s. Thank you, topper. The Doomsday Clock could be keeping us closer as they would say that our planet is closer to the demise than what it has been in more than 30 years. The group says that they put the earth closer to what they would call the catastrophic midnight. The last time we were this close was 1953 when the u. S. And the soviet unions were racing to build the hydrogen bond. Thousands of dollars up in smoke after the break. Find out how much the average smoker pays to light up in their lifetime. And it is being built as the new era of the personal commuting. Microsoft unveils the next thank you, cable for the slower internet upload speeds. For fewer video on demand titles. Thank you cable, because if we never had you. We wouldnt know the incredible difference verizon fios makes. In Customer Satisfaction studies, fios is rated 1 in Internet Speed and reliability 8 years running. Plus, fios has the fastest wifi available from any provider. Period. See the difference for yourself. Get a fios triple play online at an amazing price guaranteed for two full years plus, get a 300 bonus with a twoyear agreement. A health alert tonight for smokers according to a new study. They could be five to 15 times more likely to get cancer than those who smoke the tobacco version. The new england journal of medicine published that study. Electronic cigarettes are fairly new to the market as researchers say we are still five to ten years away from truly understanding how safe they are. We already know that smoking is a price to have as today were getting a better idea of how much dough that means. According to wallet hub that it costs the average smoker at least 1 million over a lifetime. Which that price is even higher around here with a breakdown by states. District voters spend more than 1. 7 million. That is the eighth highest in the country. Maryland, they were four slots cheaper at 1. 6 million. Virginia the cheapest at the 14th cheapest, right around the average of 1. 2 million. Wallet hub bases those numbers on one package a day for 51 years. And to report that smokers learn less than the non smokers. Google wants to sell the Wireless Phone service directly to you. They struck a deal to resell the service on their networks. According to the wall street journal, google would offer the discounted data plans. Now analysts say that could pressure the other carriers to do the same thing and to cut the prices. It seems like microsoft wants to kiss and make up with those customers that were not so happy. The Software Company says you could get the next operating system for free. That windows, they will come with a headset that will let the users see the holograms or 3d images in space with no computer monitoring required. These upgrades will be slated to be released later this year. Seven million is the number of the americans creating Financial Infidelity by keeping a credit card or bank account to their spouse. The study found that one in five people spent 500 or more without letting their partner know. And get this, jan, its not the women, but the men. I believe it. Who are more likely to go on the secret spending. I believe it. You do . I do. Im surprised by this. All right, now to our favorite sweet story of the day. Rolling out their popular puffs. We didnt make this up. It will be a sugar snack treat that it will be made available in late february just in time for easter. The taste test time i would think. Yes. Coming up, the first class flying for big business. To keep out of the competition. One airline will get help from one of new yorks top chef to upgrade their menu. They will be backing bill cosbys accusers. Another member of his tv family is speaking up. Thats after the break. And family fights to legalize medical marijuana in virginia is next as you when youve got something to share, you need upload speed. And only verizon fios gives you upload speeds. As fast as your download speeds. And the fastest wifi available from any provider. Period. So join the millions who get the difference fios makes. And see how sweet it is. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v for their Sick Children that were spending an emotional day today that one of the families is from fairfax. Our peggy fox talks to the family on wednesday. Their daughter jennifer has a form of epilepsy that is not controlled by medicine. They and other Family Members say that the only thing that works is canworks can bus cannabis oil. I look for the rights to follow her chest. Thats how we do. Reporter moments before lisa smiths comments, her 14 yearold daughter had a seizure right there in the hearing room in front of the legislatures. Lisa smith told lawmakers that it is what they would deal with every day. She had over 1,000 seizures last year alone. Reporter the families came with their children, pleading for help as they want the access to medical marijuana in the form of cannabis oil because the legal drugs, they dont work. Her bills are half a Million Dollars that this is what half a Million Dollars of the bills look like from 2014. Reporter and after the pharmaceuticals gave Jennifer Collins hallucination and psychotic fits. With the doctors urging, jennifer and her mom moved to colorado for the cannabis oil. Center its a syringe placed under my tongue and i swallow it. Reporter the medicine reduced her seizures from 300 a day to 10. We chose to come back to the state we love to the people we love and put our faith in our lawmakers to help us give jennifer the life she deserves. Reporter daves bill in the senate and house bill would legalize the use of two Cannabis Oils to control seizures. Were not looking to legalize marijuana. Reporter so i ask you to please allow this to come out of committee. Reporter while they fine tune their bill that it will be carried over and the committee will vote next week. And they will be optimistic as they would get a vote in the full senate. In richmond, peggy fox, wusa9. And marijuana is a class i controlled substance, a federal crime to prescribe it. In colorado doctors will be allowed to recommend it. The bills would allow the virginia doctors to recommend two forms of cannabis oil or entreatable epilepsy. The Congress Takes<\/a> on the antiabortion bill. Reporter thousands march on the anniversary of the supreme courts roe verses wade decision. Michael williams came down from rochester, new york with his church. Jamie traveled here from long island. Im here because im pro life. Down the street the gop house took up the bill banning the use. The nays are 179. Reporter house leaders scheduled to vote to coincide to vote is to coincide with the antiabortion rule. This is not a gift from the Republican Party<\/a> to these people. This is a gift from our creator himself. So the whole thing is a hoax. It was just meant to feed the base. Reporter they objected to the bill and an earlier one that the house was going to take up, banning most abortions after 20 weeks. But that bill was pulled wednesday night after some dop women protesttest some gop women protested. It turned in to a titan tick titanic. Yes, i do, indeed. Reporter the white house has threatened to veto on the bill that ultimately passed on a party line vote. Mark albert for cbs news, washington. The bill is headed to the senate where it is unlikely to gather the 60 votes needed to be approved. Big safety changes tonight in the way of the tragedy that killed one person and sent more than 80 others to the hospital. Bruce leshan is live at metro headquarters with the break down. Bruce . Reporter yeah, lesli and jan, metro is implementing these changes, even before the ntsb figures out exactly what happened. That it is one of the big changes that simply has to do with the train operator that will be able and allowed to immediately cut off the ventilation system inside the drain. The smoke from the electrical fire in the tunnel a week ago on monday and that he actually had to call metros control center for permission to cut off the vents that were bringing smoke from the tunnel in to the drain, leaving hundreds of people suffocating inside. Metro now has rewritten their standard operating procedures, so now the minute that they would stop for smoke, the operator is suppose to shut off the air intake. Metro has also worked with dc fire and they have adjusted the configuration, where their antennas would intersect with their fires radio station. That metro says that the firefighters radios, they now work inside the tunnel throughout the system. The ntsb says they did see some issues as well when they tried to check out the ventilation fans that should have blown all that smoke out of the tunnel. Metro says it is now inspecting and adjusting several hundred fans and ventilation shafts. The fans work. They can exhaust out, they can feed in, and they werent doing the correct direction as they were suppose to do. Even when they were turned on . Correct. Reporter and now metro, they are also trying to figure out if they need to harden up the cables that jumped the electricity from one section of the third rail to the next. That is where a short lead to the arcing fire that caused all that smoke. Now coming up at 6 00, was that train unable to move out of the tunnel and get to the platform because there was another train already abandoned in that station . Or was Something Else<\/a> going on . Were going to take a look in an hour. Reporting live at metro headquarters, bruce leshan wusa9. Another noreaster is on the way as they are tracking whether they would show you that. And it will be a cold miserable side. And that they would be missing a great opportunity. Looking forward to a cold rain. Now tonight no worries. At 8 00 in gaithersburg, 33 in manassas. By 10 30 that it will be pretty much across the board for the suburbs. Friday starts out nicely, but then by 6 00 the clouds roll back in. By 8 00 we have rain showing up already. 39, a cold rain, 36 in leesburg and 35 in manassas. Again, this is tomorrow night at 8 00. Youll see a little bit of the mixed precipitation back in the valley. Well advance it again by 10 00 at night where there could be mixed precipitation, maybe towards leesburg and upper Montgomery County<\/a> and up around i70. The bulk of this is going to fall as rain with a pretty good soaking rain that it would be as i would make sure that you can see all the yellow here, moderate rain rolling in, just after midnight on saturday with temperatures in the 30s. Well come back and talk about when we will dry out on saturday and look ahead to the other clipper on monday. Breaking news right now for prince georges county. Sky 9 over a murder scene in laurel. Police tell us that the n was found shot to death in the 8200 block of imperial drive. Now at this point we dont have a lot of information as the 9 news crew is now heading to that scene and as soon as we would get more details for you we will bring them to you. New tonight at 5 00, Howard County<\/a> police need your help to find a suspected rapist in columbia, maryland. The woman said that the man walked up to her outside the apartments, which are in the 8900 block of kmart drive. She says that the man tried to talk with her and then pulled her in to that empty apartment where he raped her. Now the woman said that the man, they had short dread locks or braids that he was possibly in his 30s and that she also thinks that she saw him near the apartments in the last week. In northeast dc, police are looking for these two robbers. That this happened last tuesday in the 1300 block of florida avenue northeast as they would walk in to the store, forced that Cash Register<\/a> open, took the cash, and they ran. If you could identify them, give police a call and there is a 10,000 reward up for grabs. A guilty plea today from a former baseball player in the Baltimore Orioles<\/a> farm system. The 42yearold eric estes admitted that he sexually abused the teenage girl that lived with the family in 1997. In exchange for the guilty plea, prosecutors are recommending that he receive three years supervised probation and register as a sex offender. He lived for the family while playing for the base sox. New information tonight on the man accused of three high profile alexandria murders. There were courtroom outbursts yet again from Charles Severance<\/a>. He has not cooperated in taking a mental evaluation, sot judge ordered the man so the judge ordered the man accused of killing the three to get a complete evaluation. Well learn more about those outbursts and what a longtime friend who visited him in jail has to say about his mental state. The new governor larry hogan released his first Budget Proposal<\/a> today and it seems to balance the states spending. It calls for general Fund Expenditures<\/a> of 16. 4 billion on projected revenue of that same amount. It includes no state Agency Layoffs<\/a> or furloughs, doesnt call for any tax cuts, but hogan has said he will propose tax cut separately in the coming weeks. Hundreds of people are in a temporary shelter because of a massive fire in new jersey. The Apartment Building<\/a> in edge water just across the hudson river from new york city. 250 firefighters battled more than 14 hours before bringing those flames under control. Edgewater schools are closed and the city is in a state of emergency as they would struggle to figure out their next steps. Im not thinking whats next. Nextinvestigators are figuring out what caused it that there are still hot spots throughout the complex that they would em all out. In florida, a toddler is dead after finding his fathers handgun. Investigators say that the 2 yearold boy was in the family car while the 23yearold parents loaded up the boxes all preparing to move. And while somehow that the boy opened up the glove compartment and they accidentally shot himself. The sheriff, they would call that case a tragic situation and said that the parents, they will not face charges because no one could punish them more than they would punish themselves. A pair of streets in brooklyn will soon bare the names of two officers killed on duty. The shooter ambushed officers rafael ramos and wen chenliu as they were sitting their car in brooklyn. Im peggy fox in richmond, where medical marijuana takes a very emotional turn in the Senate Committee<\/a> hearing this morning. Coming up, ill show you what happens. Plus, its the Super Bowl Ad<\/a> you wont see on tv. Later the message behind this revealing commercial. And a secret stash of cash. Find out just how Many Americans<\/a> are hiding money from their spouses. Youre watching wusa9 they are building snow men in texas today. This is in southwest texas, not even 200 miles from the border. And ice is even possible tonight as they will be bundling up with the sub freezing temps through tomorrow morning if you can believe that. All right, were going to be talking to topper on whether or not were going to see some snow this weekend. The possibility of rain or snow or both. Well get an update from topper pretty soon. If youre a snow lover and you know that i am that we are missing a great opportunity this weekend. Ill tell you why. Live look outside. The weather cam. Temperature is at 46. Thats a bargain for this time of the year. Dew points have fallen. So with the dew points in the mid20s and 40s, with generally clear to partly cloudy skies tonight. Everybody goes below freezing. Okay, this is a pretty big storm, kind of the classic gulf of mexico storm dumping anywhere from six to eight inches of snow in west texas with a lot. Spreading across louisiana and mississippi. So this will take a pretty good track where it is almost a perfect track for if youre a snow lover for noreaster. We dont have any cold air for you. But primarily a rain event, it bares watching no doubt. But right now were favoring mainly rain. Colder, but quieter tonight. 20s and 30s. The bus stop temperatures, 25 to 36, but no windshields tomorrow morning. Then snow will develop tomorrow night if you want to be inside at home before the rain and snow develops, trying to get before 8 00. If you live south of town. And mainly rain, which will be the main precipitation to it, not because you could see the end of it, the onset. But it is not big snow. 6 00 a. M. In the morning, 20s in the suburbs, low 20s downtown. The clouds roll back pretty much cloudy from leesburg to dc. Here comes the precipitation. It will be a cold raw night on friday. Youll see the magenta here that could be a little bit of the mix along i70 and north of winchester, which will be the best chance for anything in terms of mixing with the snow as the precipitation is heavy enough to maybe drag down just enough cold air to mix with it. But still the temperatures are above freezing. 34 in hagerstown. Even there that you wont see any problems, but we will watch it for you as you always watch those carefully. Tonight, clear, partly cloudy to about 32. The winds are northwesterly at 5 to 10. So we will break it down. 32 to start. These are downtown temps. The low 40s with the sunshine at 1 00. And it will be really cold for the polar plunge. And that the temps will be in the 30s when you do that. Now, pleasant on saturday, the clouds come back. The other clipper comes at us, cold in the wake of that clipper on tuesday and wednesday in the 30s. And with the highs back in the mid40s. Thank you, topper. The Doomsday Clock<\/a> could be keeping us closer as they would say that our planet is closer to the demise than what it has been in more than 30 years. The group says that they put the earth closer to what they would call the catastrophic midnight. The last time we were this close was 1953 when the u. S. And the soviet unions were racing to build the hydrogen bond. Thousands of dollars up in smoke after the break. Find out how much the average smoker pays to light up in their lifetime. And it is being built as the new era of the personal commuting. Microsoft unveils the next thank you, cable for the slower internet upload speeds. For fewer video on demand titles. Thank you cable, because if we never had you. We wouldnt know the incredible difference verizon fios makes. In Customer Satisfaction<\/a> studies, fios is rated 1 in Internet Speed<\/a> and reliability 8 years running. Plus, fios has the fastest wifi available from any provider. Period. See the difference for yourself. Get a fios triple play online at an amazing price guaranteed for two full years plus, get a 300 bonus with a twoyear agreement. A health alert tonight for smokers according to a new study. They could be five to 15 times more likely to get cancer than those who smoke the tobacco version. The new england journal of medicine published that study. Electronic cigarettes are fairly new to the market as researchers say we are still five to ten years away from truly understanding how safe they are. We already know that smoking is a price to have as today were getting a better idea of how much dough that means. According to wallet hub that it costs the average smoker at least 1 million over a lifetime. Which that price is even higher around here with a breakdown by states. District voters spend more than 1. 7 million. That is the eighth highest in the country. Maryland, they were four slots cheaper at 1. 6 million. Virginia the cheapest at the 14th cheapest, right around the average of 1. 2 million. Wallet hub bases those numbers on one package a day for 51 years. And to report that smokers learn less than the non smokers. Google wants to sell the Wireless Phone<\/a> service directly to you. They struck a deal to resell the service on their networks. According to the wall street journal, google would offer the discounted data plans. Now analysts say that could pressure the other carriers to do the same thing and to cut the prices. It seems like microsoft wants to kiss and make up with those customers that were not so happy. The Software Company<\/a> says you could get the next operating system for free. That windows, they will come with a headset that will let the users see the holograms or 3d images in space with no computer monitoring required. These upgrades will be slated to be released later this year. Seven million is the number of the americans creating Financial Infidelity<\/a> by keeping a credit card or bank account to their spouse. The study found that one in five people spent 500 or more without letting their partner know. And get this, jan, its not the women, but the men. I believe it. Who are more likely to go on the secret spending. I believe it. You do . I do. Im surprised by this. All right, now to our favorite sweet story of the day. Rolling out their popular puffs. We didnt make this up. It will be a sugar snack treat that it will be made available in late february just in time for easter. The taste test time i would think. Yes. Coming up, the first class flying for big business. To keep out of the competition. One airline will get help from one of new yorks top chef to upgrade their menu. They will be backing bill cosbys accusers. Another member of his tv family is speaking up. Thats after the break. And family fights to legalize medical marijuana in virginia is next as you when youve got something to share, you need upload speed. And only verizon fios gives you upload speeds. As fast as your download speeds. And the fastest wifi available from any provider. Period. So join the millions who get the difference fios makes. And see how sweet it is. Call the Verizon Center<\/a> for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v for their Sick Children<\/a> that were spending an emotional day today that one of the families is from fairfax. Our peggy fox talks to the family on wednesday. Their daughter jennifer has a form of epilepsy that is not controlled by medicine. They and other Family Member<\/a>s say that the only thing that works is canworks can bus cannabis oil. I look for the rights to follow her chest. Thats how we do. Reporter moments before lisa smiths comments, her 14 yearold daughter had a seizure right there in the hearing room in front of the legislatures. Lisa smith told lawmakers that it is what they would deal with every day. She had over 1,000 seizures last year alone. Reporter the families came with their children, pleading for help as they want the access to medical marijuana in the form of cannabis oil because the legal drugs, they dont work. Her bills are half a Million Dollars<\/a> that this is what half a Million Dollars<\/a> of the bills look like from 2014. Reporter and after the pharmaceuticals gave Jennifer Collins<\/a> hallucination and psychotic fits. With the doctors urging, jennifer and her mom moved to colorado for the cannabis oil. Center its a syringe placed under my tongue and i swallow it. Reporter the medicine reduced her seizures from 300 a day to 10. We chose to come back to the state we love to the people we love and put our faith in our lawmakers to help us give jennifer the life she deserves. Reporter daves bill in the senate and house bill would legalize the use of two Cannabis Oils<\/a> to control seizures. Were not looking to legalize marijuana. Reporter so i ask you to please allow this to come out of committee. Reporter while they fine tune their bill that it will be carried over and the committee will vote next week. And they will be optimistic as they would get a vote in the full senate. In richmond, peggy fox, wusa9. And marijuana is a class i controlled substance, a federal crime to prescribe it. In colorado doctors will be allowed to recommend it. The bills would allow the virginia doctors to recommend two forms of cannabis oil or entreatable epilepsy. The Virginia Governor<\/a> is out of the hospital. The virginia democrat has been in the Medical Center<\/a> following a horse riding accident. And seven rigs after being thrown from the horse during their Christmas Holidays<\/a> in africa as they would say they would resume their regular schedules today in richmond. Israels Prime Minister<\/a> is planning a visit to dc. The House Speaker<\/a> john boehner invited them to speak to Congress Next<\/a> month. Accepting today, but said that he would pay a visit in march instead. Boehner says that it is a chance for them to push for new sanctions against iran over their nuclear program. President obama will not meet with the Prime Minister<\/a>. The Administration Says<\/a> that the president does not meet with heads of state who are up for election. Israel is holding their election in march. A meeting of the minds between two possible republican president ial candidates. Jeb bush and mitt romney are getting together in utah. A bush spokesperson says that the meeting was planned long ago. Before romney made his surprised announcement about the possible third run for the white house. Jeb bush was seen as an early favorite of the gop establishment, but romneys sudden interest has slowed that momentum. A big name in comedy says we should all seriously listen to bill cosbys accusers. Former tonights show host jay leno is backing the women that cosby sexually assaulted them. Another member of cosbys Family Member<\/a> is speaking out with new comments. Reporter speaking at the National Association<\/a> of televisions Program Executives<\/a> in miami, jay leno was asked about the sexual allegations against bill cosby. I dont know why its so hard to believe women. You go to saudi arabia and you need two women to testify against men, here you need 25. Why arent people listening to these women . Reporter Steven Colberts<\/a> successful echoed lenos sentiments earlier in the week. Is it because hes so famous or just because theyre women . Because i would say enough has come forward. Reporter over the past three months more than two dozen women alleged they were drugged, assaulted, and or raped by cosby beginning in the 1970s. Moms, dads. Reporter he star he broke an interview published on wednesday online. Just as painful to hear any woman talk about Sexual Assault<\/a> whether true or not, it is just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this. The bill cosby i know has been great to me and great for a lot of people. I cant speak on the other stuff. Cbs news, new york. And now cbs news reached out to bill cosbys representatives as they have no comments at this time. Dustin diamond says hes not guilty in a bar fight that landed him if trouble with the law. This is video of him in wisconsin yesterday in a courtroom diamond is charged with felony wreckless endangering safety. Witnesses say the save by the bell star got in to a fight with a man stabbing him. The victim says he forcibly pushed diamond, so he is also charged. The patriots took a little air out of the deflate gate. Bill belichick said he was shocked and had no idea that the footballs he used in the playoff win over the indianapolis colts. That victory is sending them to the super bowl and the coach promised to make a change for future games. In the future, we will certainly inflate the footballs above that low level to account for any possible change during the game. Belichick and the patriots have a history of breaking the rules. You might remember spy gate happening back in 2007 when the team video taped the new york jets sidelined hand signals, fining the patriots, yanking the first round draft pick. Tom brady said he did not alter the ball in anyway. A fast food chain is causing a bit of controversy of their own today. And the story behind the racy Super Bowl Ad<\/a>s is after the break. And a little bit later, well introduce you to a group of students in college park who mimic marylands head coach. Here are the low temperatures tonight. 20s in the suburbs. 29 in bethesda, but 28 in rockville and 26 in sterile. 25 in leesburg and 28 in bowie. Well come back and talk about tracking not one, but two storms over the noreaster fo narrator gas prices are down helping middle class families. But now, the white house wants to impose title ii regulations on your internet meaning new government taxes and fees. Every month youd pay more. 11 billion dollars a year in new taxes and fees. Internet freedoms can be protected with the white house and Congress Working<\/a> together, but imposing new tax increases through public utility style regulations will hurt middle class families lets protect the internet we love without regressive taxes and fees. No to title ii. Lets go trending. A story of the local man who is looking for his dad. It has a lot of people talking about it on our facebook page. In fact hes using the power of facebook to fuel his surge. Here is andrea mccarren. Reporter lamar carter has defied the odds throughout his life. He grew up in a rough neighborhood, plagued by drugs, gangs, and violence. He was bullied as a kid. His own mother died when he was just two years old. Yet somehow he earned a College Degree<\/a> and landed a great job at howard university. And now he wants to fill the one painful void thats been a constant throughout his life. And he is searching for the father he never knew. Now hes turning to social media for your help. Lamars poignant story is coming up tonight at 6 00. Cant wait to see it. A lot of people are using the power of facebook to achieve their goals. Web producer jonie is here to give us a few examples to share how the local viewers are reacting to the mans story. A lot of posts about this. Reporter yeah, jan, this story is like so many other pleas that we have been seeing online. Facebook has become such a great platform for people to ask from the Online Community<\/a> and that really reaches all corners of the world. People, they would see how things trend, how they go viral and they hope that the same thing could happen for them as we saw the power of facebook with the als ice bucket challenge that we have done here. And that it is also a great place to share go fund me pages for victims of the horrible tragedies like that plane crash in gaithersburg. Now here is the dc man exhausted for all traditional options, giving it a try. And the response has been amazing. Since we first posted this story that it has received hundreds of what people are trying to help this man find their father as they would leave comments wishing them well, saying good luck that i would share this in maryland and virginia and were going to continue to tell this mans story and hope for a happy ending. We have seen these stories before where they have looked for a parent or a sibling and they found them through that power of social media that has opinion incredible. They will be connecting people from california and here in dc and all across the world and i really hope that will be the case of those stories. I do too. Even they are using this as tool for some of their own own ingaiting from some of their own work that theyre doing. Thank you for bringing us back. And the fast food chain called junior made headlines with the racy ads that will be featuring first paris hilton and now kate upton and they have done it again with the Super Bowl Ad<\/a> that features the models wearing well, what appears to be nothing at all. I love going all natural. It just makes me feel better. Once you get past all this strategically placed fruits and vegetables, she is wearing something, a bikini. What do you think this ad is for . All natural, maybe it is for, i dont know. I know what it is for now, but i didnt know what it was for now. Your vegetables are all natural so you shouldnt wear clothes in the Grocery Store<\/a> . Ding, ding, ding. That they contain no add hormones, steroids, or antibiotics. Thats how you make your point . Yes, you get their attention. Fans attending a new basketball game would get a half time show that they were not expecting last week. Take a look at what happened on the court. We want to show you the actor preparing to take a shot from half court. But he ends up nailing, oh yikes, the stunt woman with the basketball. Well, we think it was a stunt woman. Were not really sure. It was filmed for the upcoming movie featuring Mark Wahlberg<\/a> and ferrill, he is one of my favorites. You get a preview of the next big movie. All right, the move is called, well the movie called daddys home. It is scheduled for a release later this year. You could start calling them moves. Still to come when the news continues. Im mike turgeon. And im diane roberts. Ill tell you what all of this is about coming up. But first, airline food is getting an upgrade from one of new yorks top chefs. Well show you some of the gourmet grubs that could the world is filled with air. But for people with copd sometimes breathing air can be difficult. If you have copd, ask your doctor about oncedaily anoro ellipta. It helps people with copd breathe better for a full 24hours. Anoro ellipta is the first fdaapproved product containing two longacting bronchodilators in one inhaler. Anoro is not for asthma. Anoro contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. It is not known if this risk is increased in copd. Anoro wont replace rescue inhalers for sudden copd symptoms and should not be used more than once a day. Tell your doctor if you have a heart condition, or high blood pressure. Tell your doctor if you have glaucoma, prostate or bladder problems, or problems passing urine as anoro may make these problems worse. Call your doctor right away if you have worsened breathing chest pain, swelling of your mouth or tongue, problems urinating or eye problems including vision changes or eye pain while taking anoro. Nothing can reverse copd. The world is filled with air and anoro is helping people with copd breath air better. G get your first prescription free at anoro. Com. The competition is only getting tougher. The Singapore Airlines<\/a> hopes that a few top chefs will give them an edge off when it comes to their inflight food. For two days the airline chefs come to new york citys best restaurants like gotham bar to learn how to make meals for highend fliers. We simplify the ingredients and make the change for the presentation so that they could execute it on the plane flawlessly. The restaurant chefs cook and assemble the the airline chef. The Airlines Team<\/a> prepares meals for 30,000 fliers every day. In tonights health alert. Do the screen time guidelinelines kids need to change . The American Academy<\/a> of pediatrics say they no screen time. Limiting exposure for children over two years old. The australian researchers say that they are surging as they would do more school work online and staying within those limits, that they may not be possible for everybody. Using Birth Control<\/a> pills, they may increase the risk of developing the brain tumor that researchers would study between the ages of 15 to 49 as they would find the longterm use of the hormonal contraceptives may raise the risk of the rare brain tumor. But that they may actually lower the risk of the other cancers. And always watching, always tracking, wusa9s first alert weather. But today was just nice, so nice. Yes, a little messy this morning with a gorgeous day getting up to 49. The average high of 42. Thats good with a couple degrees in the banks. And that the week, we are going downhill pretty fast tomorrow night, looking at the cold rain what little bit of snow and as they move up the coast. Lets start with the live look outside. The michael and son weather cam as it will be colder tonight with clear to partly cloudy skies, the dew points are much lower with the relatively humidity lower, with a colder night and the winds are in check also and still 46. Now, with that said there are some 30s in the suburbs right now. Colder tonight, but quiet, the 20s and the 30s. The bus stop temperatures, 25 to 36. And it wont be a cold start walking them out to the bus stop and they would develop early tomorrow night and probably as early as 7 00 towards fredericksburg, 8 00 maybe downtown dc and maybe 9 00 in the northern suburbs. Itll be mainly rain, but i mean there will be periods of snow, but they may see the whole precipitation turn to snow as they would end on saturday as cold air moves back in. But again as we said it over and over again if youre a snow lover that were missing a great opportunity. At 10 00 tonight, were around 30. 31 in leesburg, 31 in manassas on the future cast. Still in the mid30s downtown. Never seems to cool off downtown, does it . 28 in manassas and culpeper. Upper 20s at 6 00 in the morning for you on friday. Well start out clear and cold. And then by afternoon, boom, here comes the clouds. At 5 30 they will roll back and already mostly cloudy. 66 route 50. Chilly, but not cold. Upper 30s to the lower 40s by 5 30. Here is the precipitation. This is a pretty big storm. Its a classic noreaster. This doesnt have any cold air. With that said by 11 30, youll see the blue here. There could be enough cold air north of town and just enough vertical velocity and precipitation to bring down cold air that will support snow. Temperature wise it will be 36 in frederick and 34 in gaithersburg. Thats why were not concerned at this point. Look at the big band of yellow from manassas back to culpeper, across the river in to la platta. By 6 00 on saturday morning, well see that the cold air will begin to wrap back around the system as they pass this to be parallel, probably going back to snow in hagerstown, martinsburg, cumberland. Even so the temperatures are above freezing. Where is the cold air . By 8 30 in the morning, temps in the 30s. The snow is getting to leesburg through route 15 anyway and again that it moves eastward that we could see everybody, they could see a period of snow before the precipitation pulls out. And tonight, 25 to 32. The winds are light out of the northwest. Cloudy and cold tomorrow morning, baa pretty good friday morning. 35 to 32. Then the clouds will roll in. Partly cloudy and chilly with the clouds late. 42 to 46 with the winds out of the southeast at 10. Even oakland will be 32 tomorrow. 39 in comber rabid with a pretty nice day actually cumberland with a pretty nice day actually. Mid40s in culpeper. Warrenton and manassas, probably the lower 40s. Leesburg lower 40s. Maybe 43 in reston and mcclain. 40 in andrews, maybe 45 as you get in to Charles County<\/a> and southern maryland. And the temperatures are still pretty uniform. 34 in annapolis without any wind to speak of. So there is not a small craft advisory. Now well break it down, these are city temps. 32 to start. Youll be in the 20s to start. 34 at 9 00. And 42 with the sunshine at 1 00 p. M. Okay, so on saturday, yellow alert, no surprise there, mainly rain with a little bit of snow and the polar plunge fest that will be so cold and miserable. But a good cause. 40 for the high. 44 and pleasant on sunday. But then the clouds are return. Next seven days. The reason why the clouds were returning on sunday is because of a clipper approaching our area from snow showers possible on monday. Im not sold on the track of this just yet that they might dive up to the north. But in the wake of the clipper, much colder on tuesday and wednesday lower 30s. Sunshine next thursday and back in the mid40s. There are fans, there are super fans, and then there are quirky fans. If you watch marylands basketball with any irregularity that you might have noticed some of the quirky varieties, if you havent, youll meet them now. Diane roberts introduces us to the guys that have favored mark turgeno in the most un turgeon in the most unusual way. Reporter this is the event center on the university of marylands campus. There are fans, then this are fans. These super fans are a row of college kids dressed like their 49yearold head basketball coach. Im mark turgeon. Im mark turgeon. They would call themselves the turgeonites. They live a pumped up turps life. Well, there is the turgeonites, others having technical difficulties. Theres one other like these five who is a junior, so they are really hoping that they would stick around as it will be a tradition to go on as long as hes the head coach of the maryland turrapinsterrapins. They are aging. Yes. Very quickly. Mark turgeon. Obviously we talked to mark about this. What did he have to say . He thought it was pretty cool. But he thinks it is pretty cool. For him its whatever getgets crowd pumped up. Whats really funny is that they would try to dance with the cheerleaders and the dancers that come out during the half time show. They will come out and do the dances with them, which is really bad, but they get the crowds pumped up. Every school has got to have that tradition as they would start their own tradition. It is an interesting pep squad, right . Yes. And now the terps are back in action tonight. A big match up against indiana. A really tough place to play as we have a preview for you in sports. Thank you. First though fire investigators are hey, i lost my debit card. Do you guys do instant replacement . snap what just happened . Check your wallet. No. No way. Your debit card should arrive in 710 business days. Its time to bank human again. Get debit cards on the spot, and no monthly fee checking with just a 100 minimum balance at td bank. Americas most convenient bank. In tonights Family Health<\/a> segment, doctors have made Ground Breaking<\/a> segments to help amputees to improve the quality of their lives. And as they explain for the first time, they are able to control both artificial arms simultaneously with just a thought. Reporter when they get behind the wheel, his feet do the driving. Theyve gotten around this way for 40 years, ever since they lost both arms at age 17. And i just happened to win that foot race in to the power lines. Reporter they were crude and painful. Now the limbs that hes been waiting for. Zach harvey with the prosthetics came up with the state of the art design and less is the perfect recipient. That is because three years ago he was in the study at john hopkins. He had surgery, reassigning the nerves that once controlled his arms and hands to now control artificial limbs. They made history there, operating both arms by simply thinking. Now zach, they have made their own set of arms. Eight sensors on each side, aligned with the muscles. Less things about the movement and the Pattern Recognition Software<\/a> sends it to the arms. Wrist in and wrist out. It is exciting to finally do the simple tasks, like pushing the grocery cart. Well be able to put in the cart. And they say that they are not the 6 million man, just a man who hopes to enjoy more freedom. Wusa9. And this saturday were going to pro profile the medical landscapes. How they are saving lives, right here on wusa9. Its called genometics. It is all that remains, which burned to the ground overnight. It is hard to believe that no one died in nearly 1,000 people homely. The city is in a state of an emergency. Reporter as they report that investigators, they have not ruled out arson. Reporter it it took more than 250 firefighters more than 14 hours to put out this fire in edgewater, new jersey. Dina gomez is one of the residents as they watched when it grew on wednesday afternoon. When i saw the flames getting to where they were spreading, because i could see it, i would say lets go, weve got to go. Reporter the fire started around 4 30 in the complex along the hudson river right across from new york city. Within an hour, crews called in extra help to help including the fire boats at the height of the fire fight that flames could be seen from miles away. It was in the floors and they just traveled. And we had crews on three to four and with the task of being in the multiple rescues on the different floors that they had traveled through the business. Two firefighters and two Resident High School<\/a> minor r injuries. The schools were closed and the city is in a state of an emergency as hundreds, they would struggle to figure out their next steps. And to know that they were thinking about what will be next. Yeah, all the things that they will not think of. Reporter the cause of the fire has not been investigating any signs of foul play. Don champion for cbs news, edgewater, new jersey. The complex has been under construction when a fast moving fire tore through it. The flames also destroyed a dozen surrounding homehomes displacing an additional 70 people. Thanks for watching wusa9 news at 5 00, wusa9 news at 6 00 starts right now. Metro implementing a whole series of changes tonight. Even before the ntsb figures out what happened inside that smokefilled tunnel. Two additional bodies were found today at the scene of the water front mansion fire in annapolis. Im scott broom, coming up how the family reacts today. Im surae chinn in alexandria, a judge has ordered Charles Severance<\/a> to be hospitalized. Hes a man accused in their highprofile of alexandria. Big safety changes for metro tonight as they would struggle to respond to what killed one woman and sent scores of the other people to the hospital. Thanks for joining us, im jan jeffcoat. Im lesli foster from the radios to the events to the trains, the high bolt electrical system that metro is promising the upgradegrades the inspections. Bruce leshan is live with more on that. Reporter yeah, lesli. Metro says they are not waiting for the ntsb to figure out exactly what went wrong. They say they are acting now to make passengers safer. Please remain calm theres no fire in the tunnels, theres just smoke. Reporter the smoke from the arking electrical fire last week. He had to call metros control center for permission to cut off the vents that bringing smoke from the tunnels in to the trains, leaving hundreds of people gasping for air. Metro has now ordered train operators to shut off the air intake the minute they stop for smoke. It has also ordered an inspection of all the ventilation fans in all the tunnels throughout the system. 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