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and as they get ready for the medal ceremony at pacific coliseum, a reminder coming up in late nightmary carillo will have all the reaction to ladies figure skating and my interview with alpine skier julia mancuso who won two silver medals here and tomorrow morning on today the crew will be back at the mountain, and tomorrow in prime time apolo ohno will skate in the final two events of his career perhaps and the four-man bobsled begins in the first of two runs and the champion in that event is steve holcomb and we go back to the coliseum for the ladies medal samy. that s joannie rochette, the bronze medalist. bronze medalist, representing canada, joannie rochette. one can only imagine her emotions nowas she accepts the affection of the crowd. silver medalist, representing japan, mao asada. and mao, the second silver medal won by the country of japan, midori ito won the silver medal back in 1992. and that was her idol growing up in skating, and she did s ....
causing problems across the area. one of the biggest issues, downed trees. power outages are also keeping utility crews busy this morning. trucks were out before sunrise trying to repair downed lines. and the northeastern united states is dealing with the wind and a whole lot of snow up there. up to 20 inches of snow already on the ground in parts of northeastern pennsylvania, new jersey, new york, and maine. news 4 midday begins right now. good morning to you. welcome to news 4 midday. i m joe krebs. and i m barbara harrison. it s friday, february 26th, 2010. and it s windy out there. it is, indeed. let s take a look outside right now. our area remains under a high wind warning. in frederick county, gusts have been measured a high as 60 miles an hour. let s get our first forecast from tom kierein in storm center 4. hey, barbara and tom. thankfully, over the last hour or so, the winds are diminishing just a little bit, but they re still gusting over 40 ....
we ll start you off with a view of the capitol this morning. we are seeing some snowflakes out there. we re glad you re with us this morning. i m steve chenevey. i m gurvir dhindsa. man, can we have a thursday where we re not talking about snow? we will. this is the third one in a row. we ll have one at some point. maybe next week. maybe next week. we ll cross our fingers on that. there is a little bit of snow out there. primarily to the east as tucker has been saying and showing to you. here is a live lk at northwest washington not too far from the station. that really tells you the story. a few flakes here and there. even a few raindrops here and there as well. not much happening in the city. not much happening at all out to the west. you were mentioning your drive in from the west. frankly, if you had kept driving out towards anne arundel county, then you would have seen some snow out there. let me show you hd radar, we ll show you how things are shaping ....
that s the case. let s start with the advisories. now, the wind watch is now a high wind warning. pretty much for the entire metro area. doesn t include our friends, but does include all of southern maryland and all around the district and then to the north and the west. and that just means the sustained winds could be 40 and gusts could be over 50 miles per hour. it s pretty serious stuff. right now, winds are gusting to 41 and 32 at the river. but they are just going to get stronger as we go through the night. especially tomorrow. here s the deal, intense winds through friday. gusting over 50 miles per hour. check your flashlights and batteries. when you re driving late tomorrow night and wednesday. power lines and limbs, do not touch the powerlines. let me show you the doppler radar pretty quickly and out towards lowden county and over into charlestown. these are moving now from northwest to southeast. and these are going to move pretty much down the river into town ....
sannitz. can be played by suter. under nine minutes to go in the third period. lone goal by zach parise of team usa in the third. after this one, it s kessel. you may have heard someone from the bench yell go phil. malone moves in. his mom and dad, it could be them, too. it was chris drury. three-time olympian. it is malone pulling away from seger. malone drops it over. trying to play it through. streit steps up. streit lobbed it ahead. skipped away from martin pluss. lobbed back in. 8:10 to go in the third. ron wilson wants his team to pursue the puck and screaming on the bench get it in and pursue the puck, stop sitting back. brought on by pluss. erik johnson trying to play it along the board. sprunger came up with it and fed one. shot by domenichelli blocked out. david backes. lifted in by erik johnson and pursued by seger and guided around. bobby ryan turns with that. taken on by ruthemann. handed back ahead for the carry back on by ruthemann. threw ....