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State Roundup: Cardin says U.S. must improve equity with investments into small businesses The Great Falls of the Potomac River. Photo by TerryDOtt with Flickr Creative Commons License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ CARDIN: WE MUST DO BETTER ON SMALL BIZ INVESTMENT: U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., Wednesday emphasized the need to ensure that money from a federal program that provides financing to promising small businesses is more equitably distributed to entrepreneurs in underserved communities throughout the nation, Bryan Renbaum reports for Maryland Reporter. SHORE RESIDENTS URGE STATE TO ADOPT SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS: Eastern Shore residents urged the Maryland Citizens Redistricting Commission to adopt single-member legislative districts at a virtual hearing Wednesday evening, with some charging that the state’s current hybrid model is unfair for voters, Bennett Leckrone reports for Maryland Matters.
and basically, we kicking the can down the road. reporter: he needs to be as challenging as he was in the press conference challenging the democrats. i wish he would get harsher and he needs to stand up and tell the american people who matters to him. reporter: objections are one thing and voting is another. at this point, the white house appear more confident the deal will get done. and do they have the votes to pass this? and they working on it. he was on capitol hill to meet with democrats and we re told that this was an intense, blunt meeting between the vice president and the democrats and robert gibbs said the president himself may go to the hill and to do some of his own lobbying. he said the republicans are going to vote for it because it in his words, it had everything they want and while democrats may not like the deal, they also don t like the alternative, allowing taxes to go up or inun up insurance to run out. clearly, democrats are still not happy with the white house. and. the edge on maryland s suspected bomb plot. the fbi claims the baltimore man tried to detonate what he thought was a bomb at the center outside of catonsville this morns this morning. the man who called himself mohammad hussein told an fbi informant he wanted to kill military personnel and let s turn things over to paul wagner in baltimore with details. and what have you learnd? reporter: according to the 19-page affidavit, antonio martinez was captured numerous times on tape and talking about jihad, saying he wanted to kill the military personnel so they couldn t kill his brothers in afghanistan and he wanted to take out personnel at a number of centers. this morning, he thought he was going to set up a bomb but that was a fake and the fbi moved in. the fbi said antonio martinez, a recent convert to islam, wanted to wage jihad in the u.s. against military personnel and selecting this armed forces in catonsville. according to the affidavit filed, he first wanted to use a rifle to kill the military personnel working there and he would toss molotov cocktails into the building and shot them as they ran out. the affidavit said that martinez mentioned using a truck filled with gasoline, before celting on the idea of a car bomb. an undercover fbi agent was able to convince him they were working together and provided the fake bomb. james baker, a delivery man, witnessed the aftermath. i heard a big boom and i thought it was a car crash or something and when i tried to leave the building when i couldn t leave,. reporter: the fbi praised the confidential source who first tipped them off working with them from the beginning. there is no question the fbi and the joint terrorism task force relies on individuals, especially from the private sector, to report information related to wrong doing to us. i m not going to talk about the source s motivation and that is unquestionable the source was a huge benefit. and made certain postings on facebook, articulating his desire to harm people and that was the impetus for the citizens to initially make contact with him and to determine how serious he was and to with the fbi. in court today, the judge asked martinez how old he was. he said he was 21 years old and lives here with a wife and as a construction worker. this is what he said on tape, brian, included and said i have a desire to die in the cause of allah. if i go to hell for, that i ll be happy and we blow one recruiting center up, people won t be able to get recruited there and we hit another and another and another. paul wagner in baltimore. breaking news right now in prince georges county. two children very badly hurt, hit by a car and took off and that happened a short time ago on walker mill road and in districts heights. the police are looking for a 1990 model gold honda accord and the children are at prince georges hospital and one is in grave condition, the other in critical and we ll stay on top of that story fur. the edge on virginia. the state crime commission ask is backing new laws and on the measure would require officers to stop at red lights or stop signs unless using sirens. is $110 million too much to spend on teachers in cash- strapped virginia. and they re getting better teachers into the schools. the virginia education association said the teachers haven t had a pay raise in three years and many districts have cut jobs, raised health insurance premiums. the $110 million would be a 3% raise. and the fbi has issued an alert about one of the holiday s most popular gifts. barbie dolls. what the feds say you need to know about the latest barbie to hit store shelves. and a gay couple from texas finds out their marriage is not legal, even though a licensed official in d.c. performed the ceremony. find out what happened. we re following breaking news in potomac, maryland. sky fox over a large house fire that is happening along query mill road. mont groomer county fire had to bring in water trucks because there are no fire hydrants in the area. you can see the smoke billowing into the air and looks like since it s white smoke, perhaps the flames are out and the damage obviously extensive and that is bitter cold out there. tough on the firefighters, tough on everyone involved. so far, no reports of injuries and more details as we get them. wedded bliss turned into a big old wedding dis for a texas couple. two men wanted to get married in front of friends and family. it s not will go let in texas. have a ceremony there, and have a licensed official in d.c. conduct the ceremony via skype. they were told that is not legal. shawn yancy has details. reporter: take a look at the pictures from the wedding last month in dallas. notice something different? the person performing the ceremony is not actually there. we re gathered here today. reporter: she s more than 1,000 miles away in the district. because gay marriage is not legal in texas, but it s legal in the district. there was dante walk-ups idea, his partner mark was not sure at first. my first reaction was i just laughed and i said you have to be crazy and he s come up with great ideas before, and that has been my first reaction and when researching it further i started thinking about it and it was like brilliant. brilliant because d.c. s marriage law states weddings have to be performed in the district but doesn t specifically say the wedding party has to be here. but just to make sure, mark and dante flew to d.c. and met with the marriage bureau. we were specific and asked do we physically have to be there written into law and they told us no. reporter: the wedding planning began. that were excited because, thanks to skype, their nuptials wouldn t have to be a lowly courthouse event but instead, they could get married in front of 80 friends and family. the most amazing moment of my life and his life, to. we talked about that. and by the virtue vested in me. reporter: at the end of the ceremony, the words they were waiting for. i now pronounce you mark and dante, legally married. and. reporter: they signed the marriage certificate and thought everything was handled. six weeks later. i got a letter and i saw from the district of columbia and i was thinking to myself, that is strange, you know. maybe they saying congratulations. again. reporter: not exactly. this time, their marriage had been declared invalid because the bridal party was not actually in d.c. during the ceremony. to have that letter come last friday, it looked like a sucker punch. given the law as it stands now, i can see notice reason why that is not valid. reporter: sheila alexandra read performed the ceremony. i read the law very, very carefully and it said the marriage had to be performed in the jurisdiction of d.c. it was performed in the jurisdiction of d.c. i performed it. i was performing it and was in d.c. and legal experts agree. these gentlemen seem to have dotted the is and crossed the ts. the family attorney said the only way to solve this problem is to address the gay marriage issue in its entirety. this problem is not going away and you can t have states doing different things something as controversial as gay marriage. it needs to be addressed by, my opinion, the federal government. reporter: but since no one knows if that will happen any time soon, mark and dante plan to return to d.c. for another ceremony. until then, though, they still considered themselves married. oh, yeah. absolutely. [ laughter ] we just have to take care of some a little bit of bureaucracy and paperwork. reporter: shawn yancy, fox 5 news. new details in the search for a missing 12-year-old virginia girl. an amber alert has been issued for her and police have a new clue in her disappearance. this toy looks innocent enough. it s a barbie doll. coming up, why the fbi issued a cyberalert. and wow is it cold out there. tonight should be the coldest night we have had so far this season. my full forecast is next. hi, this is tech sergeant boyken stationed in south korea. my father and friends and family in maryland, seasons greetings and happy holidays. hope to see you soon. - ( music playing ) - we know technology can make you more connected. but now it can make you more connected to your doctor through e-mail. test results from home. check records. change appointments. now doctors, nurses, techs, pharmacists are all digitally connected to each other. and ultimately connected to you. at kaiser permanente, we believe that if knowledge is power, shared knowledge is even more powerful. kaiser permanente. thrive. police in roanoke county released a new picture of a missing 12-year-old girl with her suspected kidnapper. police say this is britney may smith and jeffrey scott easley at a wal-mart in salem friday night. the girl s mother was found dead in her home monday. an autopsy is being conducted and trying to figure out when the mother died. and this is a look at her picture again. she s 12 years old, five feet tall, 100-pounds and believe that she and jeffrey scott easley are in a virginia dodge neon with virginia plates xkf 4365. the fbi recently put out an alert that a new bash doll with a hidden camera could be used to produce kid porn. the problem is, this morning is the the warning is only for police. as karen gray houston found out, child safety advocates are still concerned. reporter: this is barbie video girl, the doll causing all the uproar. the camera is hidden inside her necklace and turn the doll around, you can view your video. that doll is stuck in your head. and toy maker mattel shows you on its website how to make a movie with video barbie. and a complete way to learn about how to edit and that kind of thing. the problem that comes where that video ends up. and that is why the fbi issued an internal alert, ending up in the media and warned that illegal images could be there and that video barbie shouldn t be overlooked in the search. i was convicted of child pornography. reporter: internet safety 101. org helps defend children from online dangers. the problem was started by donna wright hughes who has serious concerns about webcam error errors. they can not only see your child, you know, making a movie but if the child forgets to turn the video off, you know, maybe they take barbie to the bathroom or take it to the bathtub. reporter: mattel issued the statement saying the products are designed with children and their best interest in mind and goes on to say that many of the employees are parents themes and we understand the importance of child safety. and. the fbi reported no incidents of the doll being used for anything than intended and to ensure that law enforcement agencies were aware that the dog could contain evidence. the fbi said the cyberalert has been taken out of context. its intent was to aid law enforcement in gathering evidence. still, child safety advocates say fire buyer beware. i m karen gray houston, fox 5 news. and well, this is about as cold as it s been all year, you re right. you re right. and we re almost there. and we think a couple of days next week are colder than today. okay. and between now and then, cold and the warm-up. exactly. and it s snowing. yup. the worms are down now and we wanted to show you a picture sent to www.myfoxdc.com from garrett county and thank you, june bug 68. i don t thank is your full name and this is. with snow totals, 10 to 18- inches and that is lake-effect snow and you re going to get more there in garrett county, good for the folks who love wisp and watch out around the lakes. they have had two and in some cases, approaching three feet of snow. i have seen 40 and 45-inch amounts and more is coming because the pattern is going continue and here in d.c., locally, and maybe you see a flurry or two around and no big deal. the cold is. this is the coldest night we have had this season and that is headed for the teens and low 20s. there will be a brief break from the cold and the wind goes away and that is not going to feel as bad. temperatures into the 40s and close to 50. the sunday storm may start as rain and could be pulling in enough cold air late sunday night, the first part of monday to throw the snow back into the mix as well and once that goes by, we re cold again as if this was not bad enough at 37 degrees today. dulles, 34; bwi, 36 and i know it s getting old. the other thing, it s incredibly dry, lots of static electricity in the house and if you don t have a humidifier, think of the cool mist humidifier at the drug store and boiling water on the stove and 25 degrees is the current temperature at gaithersburg, d.c. at 31 and in the 20s and many locations, martinsburg to 25 and the windchill is noticeable and not as bad as it has been other days and we re still in the upper teens to near 20. the wind gusts are a lot better and to about 20 miles per hour and that is shaving a good 10 miles per hour off and over this morning and with winds lighter, down to can degrees; monasses, 18 and colder than last night. 20, gaithersburg and washington. and this is your forecast. for tomorrow, we think we re going to get rid of the windchill and i wanted you to so, though, we had some snow across the lakes and this is clicking here for a second, they re getting snow across georgia and quickly for us, the high pressure is building in and that one clipper to the north. five-day forecast, one more day in the 30s and friday, i think we can ease off a bit. 42 degrees. saturday, not a bad day. a good day to run around. 47 and sunday, the rain moves in, brian, at least it s 49 degrees and maybe some morning flurries on monday and temperature crashes right back to 33. all right. thank you, sue. and did you see this? a new way to help the homeless in silver spring. four old parking meters were recondition, repainted and reinstalled around downtown and the idea is for people to drop their spare change in to help the homeless. the money will go to the shepherd s table. coming up next, thed with redskins head coach decided to explain why he sacked hainesworth the rest of the season. this is your chance to live like hugh hefner, sort of. christy s auctioning off more than 100 pieces of art work, including paintings hung in hugh hefner s bedroom, a picture of marilyn monroe and the october is expected to bring in 3 to $4 million. good evening, mike shanahan opened today s press conference with a little joke that had a lot of truth. he said he was going to share the conversation we he had with albert with the media and only albert didn t talk. shanahan had a 300-pound-weight lifted off the shoulder. the suspension left no doubt who is in in charge. he didn t discuss the situation with the owner and that is a remarkable development, given snider s history of hands-on ownership. hainesworth is appealing the suspension that could cost him $847,000 if mike shanahan lost sleep over this, it didn t show today. i know he s a talented athlete. my goal is to get him to play as much as he can and one of the reasons why, i didn t think he was going down throughout the season and there are a lot of factors and i had a good relationship with him. it was argumentative and with a lot of drama and when someone dictates when they will go in and not, that just was too much. the players will tell you questions about albert were annoying and a distraction. they were not, however, an excuse. and by no means, i don t think anyone brought it as a excuse or brought the situation up trying to explain what happened in different games. no, and not because of the distraction but something you have to deal with constantly and you get tired of answering questions about it. it s drawn out and take away from what you should be covering. the wins and losses, what we do on the field and break that down. he don t care and i don t think he miss anybody. [ laughter ] and last night on the wizards o the road against the wizards. 360 for two of his season- highs. and this is worth another look. that is pretty. also at 6, 360 i like better and off the turnover, derek fisher to kobe and he wraps it. and gastal had 21. wizards fall to the lakers, 115- 128. the wizards conclude that road trip tonight. urban meyer resigned as head coach in florida to spend more time with his family and did the same thing last year and this time, he means it and the nationals lost out on carlos pena who signed with the cubs and in college hoops, all in action tonight. we ll have highlights on the news edge at 11. thanks, the coldest air of the year coming to town. sue. and good thing they played basketball indoors, brian. tonight s going to be bitter cold into the teens and low 20s. we rebound to 37 degrees tomorrow and we ditched the wind. warming up for the weekend and rain for sunday, i think the skins game is going to be wet, dave. now you have the news edge. the news is always on www.myfoxdc.com. back here at 10. the news edge at 11. hope you will be there, too. see you.
ashley mcrae was murred september 18th on bruce place soutast. her murder was not gang related. they say it came as a result of a domest argument. last ek # 1-year-old damon samms was arrested and charged in that case. police say members from a number of gangs were at her funeral. and friction between those gangs led to that shooting and murder today. on the scene, councilman jim graham came back from vacation when he learned about the shootg. has this resulted from a taunting? this w a taunting. at a funeral. and we have this kind serious consequences as a result. the young girl whose funeral was held today. she s dead because she was talking to somebody other than her boyfriend at a club. this is the level that we re dealing with right now in terms of the madness and insanity that permeates these activities. tonight police have fanned out through northwest talking to people, trying to get information and evidence that could lead them to some suspects. trying to prevent any acts of retaliation. tonight weave a lookout for a getaway car, light or cream colored sedan. possibly a crown vic. so far, tno suspects, no arrest in this case of murder. several blocks of u street have been cled nearly all day today as the shooting investigation continues. our team coverage continues too with jackie benson, she s on u street with more. jackie? doreen, we want to show what you it looks like here at the scene as this is one of the reasons this area has been shut down for some six hours now, police are in the process of towing and crime scene technicians are examining a vehicle, one of several in a has bullet holes in it as a result of this shooting. police are starting to breakdown the perimeter that has paralyzed therea fomuch of the afternoon. more much of the afternoon, busy u street northwest was closed off by yellow police tape. the shooting and resulting chaos after a nearby funeral happened in the middle of one of the city s busiest commercial areas. thousan live here, thousands more come here to eat and work every day. they are shaken. u street has come a long way, unfortunately, we have a little ways left to go. no vehicle traffic was permitted from 14th to 14th streets. no one was even allowed to walk on the sidewalk in the 1200 block of u street as police conducted a murder investigation. inside the perimeter are dozen of the city s most popular stores, restaurants and bars. steven techla owns you scream i scream. many of these business normally do brisk lunch and happy hour business. today the tables are empty, owners say they understand the reason. the seriousness of what happened. i have few customers, because the street closed. unfortunately, i guess because of the shooting it s closed. reporter: a lot of concrn has been expressed by people who work here, people who live here, they re worried this incident may make people see u street even temporarily as an unsafe lace. doreen, back to you. jackie benson, thank you. former president jimmy carter was taken to a hospital today after suffering an upset stomach on a flight to cleveland. mr. carter is 85 years old now, he was taken off the plane by emergency crews. that s not the video you re watching now. he was taken to a hospital for observation. mr. carter s grandson says he s doing fine. doctors say his release is not imminent. the former president plans to resume his book tour sometime this week. the tropical depression that we ll tell you more about in a f minutes. first, the doctor who was shot at john s hopkins hospital recently was released from the hospital. dr. david cohen went home last night after spending 10 days in the hospital. he was shot in the abdomen on september 16th. the gunman shot cohen when the doctor shared bad news about his mother s medical condition. he shot and killed his mother and then himself. d.c. fire investigators are asking for the public s help in their effort to solve a series of suspicious car fires. the fires in question began along the 3600 block of 16th street northwest back in late august. the number of cars and mopeds were torched. the most recent fire happened just this past weekend. investigators believe the culprits are responsible for that fire and possibly up to 12 others in the area. anyone with information is asked to call cime solvers. investigators still don t know what caused a huge barn fire at theivestock exchange in virginia. this is home video of the flames. most of the cows got out, five of them were killed, though. a volunteer firefighter shot the video. he says the flames were so intense in a you could see them from miles away. the livestock exange is a local landmark in marshall, virginia. the ban on driving and talk on your cell phone is coming to maryland soon. this friday, in fact. chris gordon joins us with what this will mean for drivers. hi, chris. it means hands free cell phone use. driversre going to need an ear piece or to use the speaker phone. and they can t hold on to it, they have to put it down. this is called a secondary offense. which means if an officer stops you for speeding or neglect driving or a headlight out, they can also give you a fi if you re driving like this. it s not hard to imagine you re in heavy traffic when al of a sudden you look at the car next to u and the driver is talking or texting on a cell phone. many people on the cell phone. they re wiggling all overhe road. reporter: here s a new sign you ll see in maryland. no texting, no handheld cell phone use. starting friday, police will be cracking down. the first violation is a $40 fine. the second violation is a $100 fine with one point. if you re involved in a crash then the fines go up to $140 and there can be up to three points. the law applies not only to maryland motorists, but everybody using maryland roads. we spoke to some drivers at the i-95 rest stop in laurel. we have to be more careful. last year in maryland, there were 549 traffic fatalities, and many of them were caused by distracted driving. 30% of those recent crashes ave been related to people using their cell phones or texting. a new study from the highway data loss institute compared collision claims in four states before and after texting bans and found there were more crashes after the bans took effect. researchers think that drivers are lowering thei phones so police can t see them teing. they re doing so and taking their eyes off the road. this public service announcement created by maryland high school students won aaa s national contest. and will be on tv and cable cone siding with national drive safely workweek. we have lots of studies that indicate it s not holding the phone, it s holding the conversation, it s the distracon of the mind that happens when you re talking on the cell phone. maryland transrtation officials are confident by removing this one distraction, a handheld cell phone while driving they can make maryland highways, roadways and streets safe for all of us. live along 270 back to you in the studio. thank you, chris. there s a tropical depression that s gaining strength and it could gi us a whole lot of rain tomorrow. doug kammerer is tracking this storm. what s the word, doug? the word is going to be rain, doen. i ll tell you what, you re really going to need that umbrella. you may have put it aay after yesterday s rains. now, just keep an eye on that umbrella. make sure you ow where it is tomorrow. we are looking at a couple showers right now, some of those showers making their wayhrough parts of the area, around portions of frederickcounty. we re going to continue to see those on our way in. zoom in to parts of frederick county just to the east. now, temperatures 79 degrees, currently arou the area. most of the rain is now moving out of here, that s the good news. tropical depression 16 has formed. it could become tropical storm nicole. that s not the big news. the news is the track that the storm is going to take. it will move toward the north, fade out, become an extra tropical storm d move right up toward our region. rainfall estimates could be anywhere between 2 to 4 inches of ran, and some areas could get more than that overhe next 48 hours. i ll be back a little later on to show you when i think this rain is going to hit, who s going toee what, and when it moves out and what comes next. that s all coming up in my full forecast. thanks, doug. five weeks ago, before the midterm elections now, and president barack obama is taking a decidedly tougher tone in his talks with fellow democrats. the president is out now on a four-day road trip designed to inspire his party. and to prevent republicans from seizing control of congress. steve hdlesman has our report. reporter: in a backyard in new mexico, president obama warned out november and tried to inspire docratic voters. pay attention and do their homework and find out about candidates. if republicans take over congress. schools and the environnt, most americans he said will be worse off. have you to ask yourselves what direction do i want this coury to go in? do i want to invest in our people, our middle class? are we going to keep doing the same things that got us in this mess in the first place. to rolling stone magazine, the president was more forceful. it s inexcusable and irresponsible for people to stand on the sidelines. people need to buck up. but it s hard. our review of the economy is turning grimmer. today s consumer confidence score is down from august. vice president biden knows the electoral implications. if we let this be a referendum onow people feel about their present circumstances, we lose. republicans are counting on voters, blaming the party in powe democrats made a very clear choice. they chose to ignore the concerns of the american people and pressahead with their own agenda over the past year and a ha. president obama hit a local restaurant. he s got five weeks to convince uncommitd voters the democrat s agenda is theirs. and five weeks to convince dishearten democrats to get off the sidelines and prevent a republican takeover up here. steve handlesman, news 4, capitol hill. still ahead on news 4 at 6:00 a maryland work gets stuck after falling deep into a sewage well. a gunman opened fire in the library at a university of texas campus today. the district is considering lowering parking meter fees. coming up in sports, we ll preview the capitols first home preseason me. also the eagles say the return of donovan mcnabb, it s just another ball game. and the wizards stay up late to kick off their training camp. right here ithis neighborhood, i grew up learning strong families and hard work means opportunity. and that starts with good schools. it s a tradition here in maryland and why in these tough times i ve p education fir. we ve made record investments in our classrooms. doubled the number of charter schools. and we ve frozen college tuition for four years in a row. and it s working. experts say we now have the 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i was relaying the information up t the ground level, they were able to get the water under control, and bring it down to ankle deep. by that time it was time to pull me out. it was justin lucas turn. ias the second one to go into the hole. i got down about 30 feet into the hole. there s 2 to 3 feet of water in the bottom of the hole. luckily there were no toxic gases n the hole. we ventilated the hole just in case, had good fresh air going down to him. it could have gone a lot worse. once at the bottom of the hole i got the victim strapped into the rescue devi, and attached him to the haul line. put a helmet on him, gave him directions on how to guide his way out of the hole and signalled for the crew on top of the hole to lift him out. the equipment operator was hoisted to safety, decon tamm nature as a precaution and then takeno a nearby hospital for observati. meanwhile, the rescuers say this is one they won t forget, especially the smell. sewer water. he had a few bumps and bruisesbut he s expected to be okay. he was flown to nearby prince georges hospital as a precaution. from waldorf, craig melvin, news 4. officials at the university of texas are trying to figure out what led a student to open fire this morning. he first fired an automatic rifle near the clock tower before he went insid the library and started shooting. witnesses scrambled for cover as the campus went on lockdown. police think he sh himself when officers started to close in on him inside the library. nobody else was injured. here in our area today, family and colleagues said a final good-bye to former alaska senator ted stevens. he was buried at the arlington national cemetery this morning. he was a world war ii veteran, awarded the distinguished flying cross for his service. he went on to become the longest serving republican in the senate. he spent more than 40 yearsn his seat. stevens died along with four others in a plane crash last month during a fishing trip in alaska. he was 86 years old. a senior taliban official says osama bin ladin is still alive and active in leadingl qaa. he operates in pakistan. he s never met bin ladin but he s certain he s in touch with leaders of al qaeda and gives them specific instructions u.s. officials believe bin ladin is hiding with other terrorist leaders in pakistan. the commander says al qaeda is now a global organizaon with branchs in arab countries, europe and the u.s. there are new indications that the youngest sonof north korean leader kim jong-il is being groomed to succeed his father. today he was elected to leadership roles in worker parties. his father just made him a four star general. it was the first time kim jong-un s name had been mentioned in the media. he s the son who s most like his father. other than that, very little is known about him. kim jong-il is 68 years old and has been in poorle th. classmates are mourning the death of a local football player who diedfter last weekend s four years ago, bob ehrlich got fired as governor of maryland. for good reason. first, he protected tax loopholefor giant cable cable companies. then, he let utilities jack up our rates 72%. and for the last four years, he worked as a hired gun for big corporations, even aank that took billions from a taxpayer funded bailout. cehrlicsides with corporatet executives again and again and again tell bob ehrch big banks and billionares don need help. middle cde do. more of a pretty soggy sounding weather forecast. we talked about this last week. we talked about it yesterday. we really need to see some rain, something tropical to break a drought. have we got a chance to see a lot of rain with this next one one of the compur models just put out ten inches of rain. what? i don t think that s going to happen, but that s the kind of sysm we re talking about. the system that has the potential to bring 2 to 4 inches of rain, maybe upwards of five inches. that s why we re counting on your wisdomand human experience. that shy you don t look at computer models for your forecast. get it right here. a lot of people out enjoying the park today, a beautiful day across the rea. i took up running a little earlier, this is my running club, yeah. wait, where are you? i missed the e-mail, i was supposed to be part of this today, but, yeah, these guys out there obviously with a high school, i guess, that guy trying to beat his buddy right there, his buddy says, no, not going to happen. there they are taking a great day. plenty of sunshine out there. we have cloud cover outside right now. take a look, plenty of clouds during the day today, also sunshine. that sun helps to warm us up to 84 degrees, still a little warm, and humid earlier things have to ride out and definitely more rain on the way. we have more rain right now in some locations. 79 the current teerature at the airport, winds out of the south-southwest at 12 miles per hour. no rain around the district until you get up to carroll county, howard county as well. you can see right around mt. airy, along 70, northern portions of howard county and carroll county seeing some showers, maybe a brief heavy downpour as well. that shower will continue to move off to th north and east as this whole system continues to pull away from the area. 79 in sterling right now. 79 in culpepper. quantico and la plate that78 degrees. your wide view showng most of the rain offshore, a few showers making their way through our forth earn sections. that frontal boundary will continue to move out toward the east. normally as a frontal boundary moves off, you say, good, we re going to see dry weather the next couple ds. that s not going to happen. tropical depression 16 is in the caribbean with winds of 35 miles per hour. not a big deal for the east coast. but this one is going to take a track here. it s goi to make its way due north. moving north-northeast at 9 miles per hour. winds of 35 miles per hour. here goes the storm, making its way across cuba and into miami where they could easily see 50 mile an hour winds from this storm. itmakes its way toward south carolina, no longer a tropical storm. could take extra tropical characteristics, the remnants of that storm will comeight inland, make a turn into north carolina and virginia, and right into our region. that s why i think we stand good chance seeing a lot of rain with this system. how much rain doi think we ll see? there goes that frontal boundary, and the moistur riding right along that front to the north, tomorrow afternoon, right around 5:30. i expect to see shower activity from the district down to the south. heavy rain moves in. windy conditions move as well. there goes the heavy rain band which i think will set up to the west of the district. maybe toward louden county, the mountains coulsee alot of rain with this. four inches plus, i think that could be an easy thing we see here. anhere between 2 and 4 inches around our area. partly sunny, winds diminishing overnight, nice evening overnight. tomorrow morning when you wake up, i think a dry start and a nice start. maybe even some sunshine, the clouds will build on in as they do build, we will see the clouds thicken as well. and shower activity by late tomorrow afternoon. temperatures between 70 and 74 degrees. forecast showing a high o 79 on thursday with the rain and wind likely. drying out and cooling down. there s a lot of questions out here, if you have any questions for us, that you want the weather team to ansr. veronica and i will have that web chat tomorrow afternoon between 5:00 and 6:30 to talk about this rain. i think this will be a situation we ll see a flood watch put into effect maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow. we haven t seen a lot of rain, and mother nature is giving it all to us in one week. so wednesday and thursday both? wednesday and thursday. wednesday night into the day thursday. probably all day thursday, and then next week, maybe some more, but we ll talk about that later. yeah, let s wait for that. we re holding out for that nice weekend you re talking about. should be okay. coming up in ounext half hour, the district may try to save you some money at the parking meter. a high school community is in mourning over the un timely death of a popular teen. i ll have the story coming up. the mayoralking about education and the risks he took while in office. the wizards john wahl works overtime to get to knowis new head coach. and the eagles say they re not going to take donovan mcnabb s return lightly. a local high school senior on his way home from playing football died after a car crash in stafford county. now they re honoring the athlete who they say was a friend to everyone. forrest peterson went to brook point high school in stafford, he just left the locker room afte a game when he was involved in a singlear crash friday night. he died from the injuries the following morning, now his coach says peterson s gerous spehr sit hoping the school find comfort in his loss. jane watrell has our report. reporter: funny, determined, smart and motivated are just a few of the words friends and coaches have used to describe forrest peterson. number 5 oftn the football team. now number one in their hearts. his morals, his beliefs. were very, very important. especially for someone of such a young age. he was a friend to everybody. that s why it s really hitting our team hard. reporter: the multisport athlete diedaturday after being involved in a single car accident friday night. just a few mile as way from the high school. hn burgess said the entire school has been in a days ever since. it was the quietest it s been my four years here. it s always loud. walking through the halls yesterday, it was so quiet. it s never been so quiet. reporter: a facebook page quickly sprang up to honor the hardworking you man, who arrived at the stafford school even last year, after his father transferred to quantico. he made a big impression in a big way. joining the football and wrestling teams and navy junior rotc. since his death over 1700 people have written heartfelt tributes. it s shocking. forrest peterson also believed in origin donation. something consoling his grieving coach and teammates through this difficult ti. a 13-year-old girl is going toet his heart. that girl is going to be able to run for days and days, he was in shape. and then t newbor getting his liver. it s just special. that s forrest. the next few days are going to be difficult ones for the brook point community. forrest peterson will be buried on friday,ut his number will be remain on the football field for the entire season. a tribute to a young man who made a major impact in a short period of time. in stafford, jane watrell news 4. metro plans another round o track improvements over the columbus day weekend. there will be no blue and orange line service during the three-day weekend. he metro west station will also be closed. metro will replace four track switches which was a recommendation madbit ntsb. metro will close friday night october 8th and reopen tuesday morning. drivers in the district soon might get some relief from the city s aggressive effort to raise the prices of parking meters. the city recently slammed down pretty hard on drivers. it doubled the meter charge to $2 an hour. jack evans is a councilmember from ward 2. he says he s going to introduce legislation next week to hold hearings on whether to roll back the coast of most meters and eliminate charges on night and weekend rking. except in most crowded areas of the city. those changes would cost the city about $10 million in lost revenue. ouncilman evans says most residents wou welcome the changes. everybody s aggravated. the restauranteursho feel their patrons have to run back out and feed the meter. vincent gray also supports at least a partial roll back of the costs and the hours. the irs will no longer send out paperax forms and instructions in the mail. the internal revenue service has decided to stop mailing them because so many peopleow file eleronically. the move starting next year is expected to save about $10 million a year. people who still want paper forms will have to call the irs to request them. they re also available at irs offices and on its website. some libraries and pt offices also will have the paper forms. d.c. mayor adrian fenty travelled to new york city today to participate in an nbc education nation panel discussion. many believe the mayor lost the primary election here this month in part because of school reforms speer headed by chancellor michelle reid and people are upset and agry over those issues. politicians have to b willing to take political risks. it s going to state the obvious. the goal of politicians is to getre-elected. and too often that goal surpasses everything else. if you really wan to do education reform right now in this country, you are going to have to take some political hits. otherwise we re just going to see what s happened overhe past 30, 40 years. we know what needs to be done. permission to when asked about hisplans after he leaves office, mayor fenty predicted he and michelle reid will likely stay involved in education reform. and he warned they will likely be agitators from the outside as they have been from the inside. coming up tonight on nightly news we ll take a look at what bill gates wants to do to make better teachers. and we have a special education nation section on our website at nbcwashington.com. with regard to mayor fenty s comments, most political observers in the city note th the mayor lost the election, not because he tried reform, but he successfully alienated nearly all the constituencies involve in education and other matters in the city. white house chief of staff rahm emmanuel is expected to make a decision about his potical future by friday. he s been actively considering a run for the mayor s office in chicago. manual resigned his seat in congress to serve as 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the heat wave in southern california is causing massive power outages, temperatures h 113 degrees there yesterday. and today wasn t very much better. 103. more than 25,000 customers are without power today in california. blown transformers appear too have caused the outages. uncomrtable. are we glad we don t have to deal with that any more? yeah, yesterday you look at those numbers. at 9:00 in the morning it was 105 already. at 9:00 in the morning. you walk out the door, boom. you re not seeing that across the area today. we re shaping up to see a beautiful evening right now. we re seeinghe sunshine right now, just a fewclouds, still a couple showers up toward carroll county, maryland. it s been a pretty nice day today for the most part. and for the most part it s been on the dry side of things. 79 degrees that s the current temperature out there. 55 in fderick, 64 in warrington. a rather down toward fredericksburg, 60 degrees. tomorrow 72 in fredericksburg. st. marys around 74. annapolis cong in at 75. most of the day will be dry tomorrow, the rains will come in and they will get very heavy during the day on thursday. very windy as well on thursday, not a good day at all. friday and saturday looking better with cooler temperatures, highs only in the 60s on saturday. and we stay in the 60s as we make ouray through the rest of the weekend. thank you, doug. it s an unprecedented partnership, the washington capitols, mystics, redskins and wizards are all joining forces in a new health initiative for our area youth. sports teams announced plans to kick off get the ball rolling. it will educate local kids about the importance of staying f and eating healthier. as a native washingtonian, this program is personal for him. 40% of children in the district of columbia are considered overweight or obese. those numbers are staggering. and we needo fix that. so we re real focused on that. kids willearn fro nutrition experts. not a bad idea. the capitols are out here, 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[ male announcer ] capital one bank. the most branches and atms in the dc area. what s in your wallet? ove, go long! they re getting ready to do some skating at the verizon center, right? reporter: that s exactly right. the capitols preseason home opener against the boston bruins. you may think, it s a preseason game, who cares about that. the prince william panthers care. these guys are here, they play hockey, and they get to be in the fan tunnel, the tunnel all the skaters skate through. everyone knows alex ovechkin is making his home preseason debut. obviously wants to pick up and do better, he started off the playoffs last year, he scored five playoff goals all totalled. he is determined to help this team learn from their mistakes. his line mate mike knuble said ovechkin is always ready to go. he s excited to see what ove is ready to bring to the table. it s fun to e him play. even his own teammates. you feel that much more comfortable when he s on the ice, and when the other team sees his name on the lineup boorksd it s a ltle bit of an intimidation factor. he s going to be he ll look like crtain guys look like they re in mid season form all the time. he ll be having fun and be all over the place doing his thing. i think that s pretty he ll be playing his me. mike knuble will be playing on that first line tonight with alex ovechkin. the pition battle to watch is going to be for center, they ll all be competing for time. that s a battle to pay attention to. the capits are three preseason games in, after tonight they have three left. they all just want the regular season to begin. moving n to football, donov mcnabb you can bet did not want his return to philly to be under these circumstances. after losing a game the lollie st. louis rams. bu mcnabb is a professional, so are his former eagles teammates who say, we re just going to take it in stride. the question is, h are the fans going to react in donovan mcnabb s return? mcnabb spent his last1 seasons in philadelphia where his career began. people still wonder why the eagles would have traded a quarterback inside the division? now that he s with the redskins, his goal is the same as it ever was. it would sure be sweet to get a victory against the team that dealt him. the eagles say they reaking as it comes. i think the role of donovan, and the legacy that he left here will be just that legacy that will last forever. he did phenomenal things for this organization. and that s not forgotten. it s going to be a big game. a big game for everybody. you know, you know, mcnabb nes to be a quarterback. we have to play against him now. we re not going to treat him no different from any other team. he s an opposite team. we re coming. i ve always said this is just a normal game. and in this situation, obviously for us, it s a must win. you know, coming off of two losses like we ve had these past two weeks. no matter who we re playing, we have to be able to come out and be able to execute and win. donovan mcnabb and the redskins return to the practice field tomorrow. mcnabb saying this is a must win game against his former team. elsewhere in the nfl, there s one rule i think each team has, if yore playing the chicago bears, don t punt to devin hester. it s one of the mistakes the green bay packers made on monday night football and it ended up in a lot. the fpackers taking on the beer at soldier field. the packers start teach in their territory. a good punch in the 38, devin hester is magic. he finds the reek, takes it back, in an ou 62 yards all the way back for the touchdown. his first punt return since the end of the 2007 season, the bears take a 14-10 lead thanks to devin heste green bay comes storming back, though. aaron rogers drives the packers deep down the field, 316 yards passing for the ball game. he uses his legs here, dmivz from three yards out for the score. the packers are able to retake the lead 17-14. game ties now at 17, bears fans in a frenzy. jay cutler looks to be picked off. take another look, rookie safety, morgan burnett called for pass interference. 18 penalties for green bay on the night, wipes out the interception. sets the game wingfield goal for the bears. robbie goal makes it with four seconds left. the bears win it. let talk about the nba. flip saunders said when i take on this new young wizards team this year, let s have midnight madness. it was a big deal for john wahl, the new star of this team. although felt kind of familiar out the on the court. the wizards back on the court last night, midnight madness. point guards are not made, they re delivered from heaven. he thinks leaders are the same way. he has john wahl who was front and center in front of 4,000 fans last night, while working with chemistry teammates. he s also working on his personality and chemistry with is coach. the time they spent together in minnesota in the offseason has made him even more comfortable. that will do it from out here at verizoncenter, guys, the capitols tonight taking on the boston bruins, it s a preseason game that they re still really working on chemistry, so it is a big deal for the caps and all these fans that have flocked here tonight to see alex ovechkin. i was listening to donovan say it s just another game, i couldn t help but remember when the eagles traded sunny down here for sneed and the first time tha sunny got the chance to play the eagles again, he made it clear he wanted to kill them suckers. if m no mistaken, i think he did. th ran the score up to something ridiculous. we d like to see that again. sunny certainly made a statement. donovan is the most politically correct athlete i ve been around. he s always going to say the right thing. you have to know when a champion has that kind of chip on their shoulder, good things are going to happen for them. he wants it bad. yes, he does. doug has a final check on our weather. you might not lieve is guy and his t. four yea ago, bob ehrlich got fired as governor of maryland. for good reason. first, he protected tax loopholes for giant cable cable companies. then, he let utilities jack up our rates 72%. and for thlast four years, he worked as a hired gun for big corporations, even a bank that took billions from a taxpayer funded bailout. ehrlich sides th corporate executives again and again and again tell bob ehrlich big banks a billionares don t need help. middle cde do. people in nashville are still trying to recover from the devastating floods that hit there nearly five months ago. tonight the city is celebrating a clear sign of ogress, the grand ole opry is reopening. jay gray reports. it s opening night at the nely renovated and repaired grand ole opry. i think when the curtain goes up for the first time, there are going to be some tears in the house. in a city built on music and dres, the may floods were a devastating nightmare. we had ten people die in nash vietna ville. we had about 10,000 properties damaged. one of those this iconic performance hall. when iaw the opry house under water, it hurt me in my soul. four feet of water filled the grand ole opry. even when this stage was under water and in the five months it took to bring it back, the music never stopped. it never has, in the 85-year history of the opry. and this afternoon as the surstars of country muc rehearsed one last time, for one of the biggest and most important performances ever here, there is a message in the music. it s very important to millions of people, and it will never die. this building is a testament to the spirit and strength and resilience that is country music. the perfect note in music city right now as it continues to play a song of survival for anyone who will listen. jay gray, nbc news, nashville. that s good to see. how about our weather. our weather will be changing again. we saw tropical downpours sterday during the day. some areas sawthose, i think we ll see them again tomorrow night and into the day on thursday. let s show you what s happening outside right now, currently 79 degrees. a beautiful evening. winds out of the south-southwest at 12 miles an hour. a frontal boundary that helped roduce some of the rain we saw is moving off the coast. it s not going to move very far. look down toward the carolinas, here comes the rain from the south, it will be hre tomorrow afternoon. and by tomorrow night into thursday, very heavy rain, i think we could be dealing with winds upwards of 30 to 40 miles an hours the storm system does move in from the atlantic. this could be a tropical depression, tropical storm befo it makes its way up here. we could see 2 to 4 inches of rain with locally higher amounts. we may need to see a flash flood watch put up over the next 24 hours for our area, even though we need to see some rain, we don t need to see that much. parts of the carolinas, which saw 10 inches yesterday, cou see another six inches plus. four-day forecast, 73 again tomorrow. 50% chance of rain late in the day. 79 degrees thursy with heavy rain and wind likely. friday and saturday we dry out. drying out with sunshine friday afternoon, sunny and a high of 67 on saturday. as we move in through the extended forecast. highs only in the 60s. right now i ll have the extended forecast dry, but looking at a couple systems that do try to come into our area monday and into tuesday. those as well would be a tropical nature. so mother nature heard everything that we sid over the past three months, about just how dry we have been. sometimes enough is too much. we needed seven inches. we may just pick up that seven inches or at least half of it. we ll see. there s a guy in costa rica named cheeto. he earned extra money with a 1,000 pound crocodile. people come from all over to watch them do tricks. there is a story behind this unusualrelationship, and we re going to tell it to you 20 years ago, cheeto found him dying on the banks of a nearby river. a farmer shot him in the eye and left him to die. cheeto got two friends to help him load the crocodile onto his boat. he took him home and you nursed him to alth. he took him back to the bay to release him. and the crocodile fool on the broadcast tonight.
bank robberies in fairfax in less than a matter of weeks and people we spoke to are shocked by the string of robberies and more so, that it s a woman. oh, my god. that is shocking. you never expect a female to do that. and unbelievable. the woman sign robbed this bank. the bb&t bank in centerville as recurrently as tuesday afternoon. any in each robbery, the woman wears dark clothes, a scarf to hide her face and sunglasses and approaches the teller the same way each time. and she goes in and apparently implies a weapon with a note and then the robbery takes place. reporter: she s an african- american woman, heavyset, 5 4 , between 160 and 170 pounds. besides the bb&t bank, she s believed to be behind a bank robbery march 2nd at northwest federal credit union and apple federal credit union on february 26th. fairfax police say it s unusual to have a female bank robber. we don t see a lost women bank robbers. it happens and sometimes we do see them. certainly, it goes some times. reporter: police say they working with officers in each of their stations and so 93 know what they know what to keep their eyes open for. we have seen an uptick in fairfax and across the region in the last couple of months and we re taking a hard look at it. reporter: in all the cases, no one was injured and the fbi s assisting with the investigation. in the newsroom, claudia coffey, fox five news. back to you. thank you, claudia. if you would like to take a closer look at the photos g to www.myfoxdc.com and click on local news. serious charges against this virginia high school teacher. adrian is accused of having sex with a student at school and off campus. he teaches in winchester, virginia and turned himself in yesterday. he s charged with indecent liberties with a child. and police are holding him on $1,500 bond. a body has been found in the water near lake leo nor dam. this is a live look above the dam. the police say two fishermen found the person floating this afternoon in the water. no word who the person is and how they ended up. and d.c. police are investigating the death of a 10- month-old girl. the nanny found the baby unconscious here in northwest around the corner from mayor fenty s home. the nanny took the baby outside and asked for help and the police officer on the mayor s security detail. the officer began immediately rendering cpr in an attempt to save the child s life. and they summonned assistance at the same time and came up and transported the child and about 9:30 last night, the child was pronounced dead. the police haven t released the baby s name and they re investigating what happened. new details in a followup story you saw on fox. a d.c. woman was having trouble breathing and said d.c. paramedics refused to transport her. that was in december and fox 5 learned that two medics were disciplined and last night, the fire department said that there were no complaints surrounding the case. fox 5s roby chavez has the latest in this continuing investigation. robbie? reporter: it was an about- face today. d.c. fire and ems changed its story involving the case of kimberly kelsey. last night, we had her disturbing story of the night she was breathing. she called 911 and passengers refused to transport her and she feared for her life. one of the paramedics told me, you know, there was no need to transport me to the hospital because i don t sound like i m having shortness of breath and . what did you think then? was like how could he diagnose me? he s not a doctor. reporter: kelsey told us it took two calls to 911 before she was transported to the hospital and records sheet initial call came in at sub31:00 and didn t get to the hospital until an hour and a half later at 9:05. last night, the d.c. fire department said there was no unusual incident that happened that night and no complaint. the department did an about- a complaint filed on the same night and information didn t surface until today. appropriate disciplinary action was taken and they re back at work treating patients. the d.c. fire and ems would not elaborate on that type of discipline imposed. the department said that kelsey agreed not to be transported. they lying, you know, i did not refuse. i never refuse, you know, when that comes to my respiratory problems? you were hurt something. yes, i was. did you think [ indiscernible ] in. i don t think so. you know, that is d.c. government. reporter: we spoke to kierly a few moments ago and she has not heard from the department. they said as far as they concerned, the investigation is closed and the system worked. of course we re going to stay on top of the story. thank you. and two questions any an american known as. odd jane. she s known as trying to enlist muslim radicals o. capitol hill, new warnings the u.s. needs to step up efforts to stop extremists from recruiting. tom fitzgerald joins us now with the story. reporter: he never saw any indications that she harbored a radical belief. but a federal indictment said she was deeply involved trying to lure new members to engage in the jihad and against radical islamists. she called herself jihad jane and to her philadelphia suburb neighbors, she was more of a mystery. a nice, quiet up to. you woul t expect wouldn t expect someone like that to be living here. reporter: she recruited terrorists on the web, a to kill a swedish artist who sparked muslim anger after drawing the prophet mohammad as a dog. she s accused of getting passports to help people evade security and to travel freely around europe and herself travelling to europe to carry out a murder contract. reporter: she s been under police protection for three years now and drew condemnation from the governments of pakistan, jordan and iran. iran is the number one state sponsor of terror. reporter: at the senate armed services hearing, antiterrorist experts told lawmakers that the u.s. is in the dog enough to cut off the fresh supply of members. stop the recruiting. once you stop, you stop the insurgency. reporter: to do that, the officials need better information on who is being recruited for jihadded in and outside the u.s. the intelligence is lacking now. you have to know the pathways that lead the young people to violence. there is a rising population of youth interested in learning, growing, active in the internet. reporter: federal officials don t believe that she was part of a larger terrorist network. the allegations are bringing a fresh focus on internet terror recruitment. she intended to travel to europe and die as a martyr if necessary and appears as an american woman to help ease her travels. this case should shatter any lingering doubts and that officials can t spot terrorists based on their appearance. shawn? thank you. local police departments across virginia are getting millions of dollars to fight terrorism. the vernor bob mcdonald said nearly $5 million in grants will be given to 45 departments. the money will be used to buy equipment crucial to fighting crime and deterring terrorist acts. a television sell for transit advocates encouraging cash-strapped governments to pitch in more money for metro. the coalition transit wants state and local authorities to give an extra $74 million to metro. it has a budget gap of 189 million starting in july. metro has proposed raising fares and cutting service to make up the difference. a big change for the nation s largest bank. b of a, bank of america, is eliminating overdraft fees for the debit cards and that cou mean big changes to your account and decisions that you have to make. chris carter has me on the latest changes. reporter: in response to overchilling customer criticism and impending card rules soon to be initiated by the federal government, berkal end overdraft fees on debit cards. the nation s largest bank by assets announced it will sto automatically change customers for overdrawing their accounts, instead of imposing excessive fees, customers will flatout be denied at cash registers and atms if they don t have enough cash in their accounts to cover the transaction. if customers want extra cash, the bank will charge a $35 fee but the customer must agree to beforehand and accounts can be linked toavings or credit card balances to have overdraft protection for a one-day fee of $10. the announcement comes as the federal reserve plans to ban fees without prior customer permission on july 1st. the new policy at bank of america starts on june 19th for new customers and some time in august for existing accounts. overdraft fees have made big money for the banks in recent years. industrywide, the unpopular charges made the bank s $38.5 billion in 2009 alone and it s unclear how b of as books will be impacted by the loss in revenue. the bank said it will discuss the financial impact on the company when reports averages in mid-material reports earnings in mid-april. log on tofoxbusiness.com and click on channel finder. i m chris carter in new york. maryland lawmakers are considering a bill to raise bar tabs by a dime for drinks. people with developmental disabilities and caregivers testified calling for an increase in the alcohol tax. the tax would raise approximately $214 million. the mean would go to help people with disabilities get services and maryland s alcohol tax has not changed since 1955. and lawmakers are considering rules for bidding minors from using tanning beds in maryland. skin cancer experts and dermas toes testified about the link of exposure to ultraviolet light as a teenageer and developing skin cancer later in life. first the case in southern california. now this. investigators are taking a closer look at another report of a runaway prius. what could drivers do before getting behind the wheel? 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after being hurt. he was responding to an emergency call when he lost control. paul wagner joins us with the story. reporter: the friends and family thought he was going to pull through. for the better part of 10 days, there were positive reports coming from the doctors but last night around 9:30, officer jenson, who everyone called tommy, passed away in the intensive care, n at the prince georges hospital center. officer s officer jenson s dad was pinned on by his father of the prince georges county police department. reporter: tommy jenson was a cop s cop, literally. born and raised in prince georges county, tommy jenson was the son of retired detective sergeant thomas jenson senior and he was one of the family. grew up and graduated from damath high school. was at hyattsville and he knew the area and knew the challenges. i remember him as an energetic officer. he loved being a cop and playing hockey. scores! reporter: this is him scoring a goal and a game to benefit. it was a great hockey player. he was physical with his size and he enjoyed the game, just enjoyed it immensely. reporter: on the morning of february 27th, the officer lost control of his cruiser while responding to a emergency call. investigators say the cruiser hit a patch of ice on the southbound side of route 1 near 193 and slid out of control hitting a poll on the other pole on the other side of the road. for days, police say it was touch and go and at times, his condition would improve. this is tommy, his first day on the job and mike cokely shot the footage. they were tight. and it was a shock because, you know, we had so much hope, you know, going through the weekend and everything and all the levels were up and looking good i didn t expect the phone call. tommy jenson was 27 years old and had been married just five months. officer jenson is the 26th prince georges county officer to die in the line of duty. roberto hilton said he worked with officer jenson s father and remembers tommy when he was born, he said a huge flow to all. thank you very much. we appreciate it and funeral arrangements are not yet complete. congress is considering giving another chance at a tax deduction. the house passed a bill to allow donations to be written off in the 2009 tax returns. the current law would force you to wait until next year. the senate has to pass the bill and it would apply to donations all the way up to tax day, april 15th. president obama has renewed the u.s. commitment to helping haiti recoverer from the devastating quake mr. obama called it a international tragedy. it was a 7.0 magnitude and a tremor. the first lady of haiti returned to her alma mater in d.c. and shared a plan for her recovery. she received from george washington university, a guest speaker at a symposium on an education in haiti after the earthquake and days after, she talked to a young boy who was going into surgery and asked him what she could do. the answer came as a shock wave to me. please, madame, promise me that you will help me go back to school. more than 80% of schools in the area effected by the earthquake were damaged or destroyed. here at home, we have sunny skies, no doubt about it and sounds like rain is on the way. i m living for the moment. gary, today was beautiful. what can we expect into the rest of the evening? reporter: it looks like the rain holds off for tomorrow and that looks like it s going to be wet around here. nothing like that for this weekend and let s take it a day at a time. the clouds filled in and we have had a sunny break out there and from time to time. temperatures in eastern texas, severe, too and there is a new tornado watch in effect for arkansas and severe weather severe weather, it s that time of the year and we ll see some the next few days. here at home, though, the rain stayed away and mainly just a few clouds for us, temperatures nice and temperature. 61 in the city. leesburg, holding up to 65 there and port royal, 66; 60 degrees in frederick and 58 for baltimore. up to the north and out along the bay. the temperatures have been cooler today and gormley in the upper 50s, 58 degrees at 7:00. look at now nice and wile, 55 and 52 degrees at 11:00 and the rain is coming. okay. thank you, gary. an amazing show for kids of all ages. take a look at this. the show is awesome for which were wh challenges. this is the big apple circus. the non-profit group put on the show and it s geared towards which were with sensory impairment. kids were invited to a special session after the performance where they could uch e costumes and meet some of the performers. they re off e field and spending quality time on capitol hill. the message we have for you and your kids, that is still ahead. and talk about extreme sports, alligator wrestling is gaping popularity. and no w. didn t think so. we re going take you behind the with electronics nowadays, it s about portability. we re not just talking about listening to music or surfing the web. doctor s devices are getting smaller and more mobile as well. the new pocket-sized ultra sound device. it gives doctors the chance to take a quick look inside your body before ordering more tests, which can be invasive or costly. with a health alert now about stds that may surprise you. a new report said one out of every six americans hasgenital herpes and more than 80% don t know they have it and women are twice as likely to catch it. the men and black women have the highest infection rate. the cdc said the best way is prevent it is to use a condom. and . more and more women are becoming infected and has one of the highest hiv infection rates. reporter: hi, will. the numbers are staggering. 3% of all adults and teenagers in the district have hie. to help the fight, the city s health department is launching a cutting-edge campaign, distributing female condoms free in some areas with the highest rates of infection. hiv/aid awareness day. reporter: the district s female condom campaign comes as the nation marks its own observance, aimed at edating women and girls on the importance of getting tested for hiv and that the national press club that testing was free. if you have unprotected sex and more than one partner, you re probably going to have to keep tests. every three to six months. reporter: genevieve works for the d.c. health police department and is pushing the new female condom. we can pop it out. reporter: the community education group in southeast is one of the non-profits that will be handing them out to barber shops, beauty salons, nail salons and carryouts in wards 7 and 8 where they alreaddistribute male condoms. the female condom has been around for awhile and these are new and improved, fda approved, more affordable now and d.c. health officials are hoping women will use them. us, you know, we can afford to add this to a scale of our male condom distribution program to expand tions r women. reporter: a half million grant from the max cosmetics d.c. and they re also available now for purchase at the 56 cvs stores in the city and this new generation will be at cvs and will cost you $6.50. thank you. and ecstasy is being sold in the middle of a crowded mall and one day later, a potential roadblock is trying to prevent maryland from recognizing the union. here s to the believers. the risk-takers. the visionaries. the entrepreneurs. who put it all on the line to build and run their own businesses. at at&t, we know something about that. our company started out in a small lab, with not much more than a dream. and today, we know it s small businesses that can create the jobs america needs. that s why at&t is investing billions to upgrade and build out our wired and wireless networks. making them faster, smarter, and more secure. connecting small businesses to markets across the country, and around the world. we invest now, because we know it will pay off. with new jobs, new growth, from a new generation, putting their belief in the 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the shopping center s parking lot. some inside in the food court. the five men are jonathan pay, tufon paul ban, jeff su and quang ho. the case was handled by a dea task force including the virginia state police and montgomery state police and the buys happen. the documents say one of the defendants sent an undercover officer a text message that said are you ready to hang out. it was his way of asking if he could meet up and exchange drugs for money. thousands of changed hands and officers handed over money to one of the cigarette box. now, we tried to reach all five of the depends and several lawyers did call us back. they didn t want to make an official comment. a spokeswoman talked to us a bit and theyent want to say a lot either and did tell us tyson s is willing. thank you, beth. virginia governor mcdonald is reversing a ntroversial anti-gay discrimination policy handed down by the state s attorney general. mcdonald has new ordered state agencies not to discriminate based on sexual oropenitation. the decision overrides saying state law doesn t provide for that protection. virginia lawmakers killed bills in the past that would outlaw discrimination against gays. a maryland state senator is trying to keep the state from recognizing same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions. senator jacobs introduced a bill to from the maryland attorney general. agencies have to recognize gay marriages from other jurisdictions unless the legislature or courts decide otherwise. the montgomery county school board is cracking down on school bullies. the board is the new bullying, harassment and intimidation policy this week. the school system will come up with a prevention and intervention program used by all the public schools. the family of a murdered california teenageer is time teaming up with lawmakers. john gardner, a registered sex offender s charged with murdering chelsea king, chelsea s law would require offenders to live under stricter surveillance and rules and he s a suspect in the murder of 14-year-old amber dubois. the nation s no-fly list is meant to track possible terrorists. the number of named dbled since an tap. ed christmas day bombing. on the hill, lawache lawmakers looked at lessons learned from that incident does&what is being don to prevent another one. reporter: in just over two months, the number of suspected terrorists banned ballooned from 4600 to 6,000 after an alleged would-be bomber tried to blow up a plane on christmas day. security makers say there was not a failure to collect information or share it but rather a failure to properly analyze the information. officials giving examples of two key pieces related to mutullab that were overlooked, the travels from yemin and the warnings from the father that he had extremist toys. all those dots, so to speak, were on the same table and our government was unable to connect them. until these systems work more effectively and more seemlessly, we will not be able to prevent terrorists from travelling to our nation. reporter: intelligence officials say the no-fly list was expanded to include people associated without motall ab and others. officials with ts assay improving their analysis technique is key why the national counterterrorism center will have pursuit teams to drill down on specific pieces of information. 12:25 highlights a long- standing and very difficult problem and that is how you identify and integrate fragment information when nothing is blinking bright red. reporter: security officials say this won t be an easy task since the amount of information they get in a single day can be massive, matching the amount of information in the library of congress. chris foster, fox news. the helicopters intercepted a small plane that violated restricted airspace near northwest d.c. the faa said the single-engine cessna took off from new york and crossed in and out of the airway. it was forced to land at the frederick municipal airport. the faa introduced the pilots and is still investigating. a redskins presence on capitol hill today. not for meet and greet with members of congress. take a look. working out the carbs. chris horton, marco mitchell and edward williams were at the capitol hill visitors center to show kids how to have gun and fun and get in shake and like videos and games to teach fitness. the program uses all six redskins fitness zones in our area. and tragedy in hollywood. corey haim collapsed and died. what went wrong? tmz is working closive new details. and why is it so popular? why are people paying to see this? it s a sport that could have deadly results and free style alligator wrestling seems to b gaining an audience. this weekend is the second competition in florida. each contentant jumps in with the gator for a 10-minute session. they re scored based on six different categories, including the aggressiveness of the gator, style and showmanship. the winner takes home 5 grand. we do it the way it was done back then. that is what this competition is, re-creating as it would have been done. if people come watch it, you know, people like to watch hockey games with the fights and car races for the wrecks, people like to watch alligator wrestling for the bites. ouch. the competition founder said it s cruel on animals and said the alligators used in the event would have been euthanized anyway. caught on camera, horrifying moments for a mother and 2-year-old daughter. both were at it 7-11 checkout counter in washington state when a van that was parked came crashing through the store front and caused the wall to collapse and trapped the girl under the rubble. she suffered a broken leg and internal injuries. the witnesses heard the driver rev up the van and put it into drive. he told police he s a diabetic and needed his medication and i was reading looks like the same driver was cited last spring for driving into another building inside and this might be someone needing to reconsider getting into the wheel. and 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air force service pilots were honored with congressional gold medals. here s more on their story. you re always looking here and not there. reporter: in this commercial airliner, it s a world a part from the controls bernie handled in the 1940s and she made history as one of the first women to fly a plane in war time. they were not sure in those days whether or not a woman could do the same jobs a man could or whether they could handle the larger aircraft or the military life. reporter: during world war ii, 1100 women air force service pilots risked their lives on training missions, each dangerous and difficult with no military recognition or financial support even if they died. we would have to pass the hat when one of the 38 of us killed was taken back home. reporter: today, about 300 remain and this week they finally get an honor, one that is overdue. i am thrilled that&overwhelms to be going to washington, d.c., to receive a congressional gold medal and that ithe highest honor congress can give. reporter: feels great. reporter: they spent time with a new generation and fulling in her footprints. each is aware of the dedication shown by these for generations of women to come. in atlanta, elizabeth for fox news. and nice to see two generations come together like. that. and talk about the forecast? that was fabulous and beautiful and. we had into the weekend and we re going to soak in the sun. we have rain tomorrow and friday. okay. and that weekend looks wet and as a matter of fact, i think saturday the way it s looking and looking like this, too and saturday we re in for a steady rain out there and noticehe clouds, you know the day, and it wants to be warm and temperatures have warmed up again and into the mid-70s and you were 70 degrees earlier and you re 70 degrees now and back out along 81 and temperatures in the lower 60s and you can see winchester, 62 and in up to, 61 as well and gaithersburg cooled as copyco and we noticed around the bay that temperatures stayed cooler and generally lower 60s to the upper 50s and clouds at 11:00 and 52 and clouds tomorrow morning, the temperature of 48 degrees and that is going on to be mild leave night and noontime tomorrow, a few showers possible and make sure you have the umbrella in the bag with you. we could have rain. from and that does look like most of the rain holds off until the evening and this morning we had a couple of showers and notice as it s closer, this breaks up and thunderstorms in the deep south and farther back to the west there is severe weather and a watch, a thunderstorm watch and tornado watch and that is down to texas and into partings of arkansas as well and tomorrow morning, expect clouds 52 and 58 at noon and there could be a couple of showers there and expecting the rain to be settled late in the day and tomorrow evening, the high temperature is up again to 62 degreesor so and i have no idea. cloudy skies tomorrow morning and to start off. notice the showers hold primarily down to the south and into the southwest. through the day, all that moisture is back there and it has to make a run and that will come from the south-southwest and to the afternoon hours and looks like the rain will settle in for us in places by tomorrow evening and tomorrow night and to the south and in central rginia and into north carolina. we re going to have to wait and get into friday and saturday. this is a look at the fox five- day forecast and calling for late showers tomorrow and again, keep the umbrella and you want to reach in the bag tomorrow and know where it is. 60 degrees with rain on friday and that looks like a good, steady rain on saturday, too and a temperature of 61 degrees and on sunday, cooling into the 50s and on monday, mostly cloudy with 55 and it wants to stay warm and . well? which is good. ask you can you blame it? it s wanted to take hold all winter and with rain it . and that is a nice change. yup. thank you, gary. a new deal will let annie liebowitz keep control of her portfolio. colonial capitol will e her only creditor and her celebrated images are with vanity fair and vogue and she won an extense to pay a $24 million loan to a manhattan firm. the sudden death of corey haim. he died this morning and harvey ref sip live in l.a. with more. how did he die? they don t know for sure. law enforcement is saying it could be a accidental od and he collapsed at 12:50 this morning and they found four prescription bottles and he has had a long standing battle with prescription drugs and he told us, we happened to run into him a few weeks ago and he said he was clean and wasn t having a problem and i will tell you this, celebrity rehab contacted him and he said he didn t need it and hung up. he was young, 38 years old what is the reaction so far from the rest of hollywood? reporter: the reaction is this is crazy right now. britney murphy has flu-like symptoms and dies after takingpression drugs and michael jackson, prescription drugs. now, this guy and it may well be he had flu-like symptoms, too and there were bring drugs. everyone is saying it used to be when people in this town like celebrities were o.d.ing, this was heroin and cocaine and lately we re seeing the prescriptions and that is everyone taking notice. tha you for your perspective and we ll look for tmz onox 5. and let s go to what is coming up next. and this is out of virginia. a woman trying to tell a 911 operator where she was. firefighters couldn t find her in time. what went wrong? we have the calls. we ll reveal them. and jihad jane, the new poster girl for homegrown terror, what her ex-boyfriend has to say and find out how sten egyptian artifacts end here s to the believers. the risk-takers. the visionaries. the entrepreneurs. who put it all on the line to build and run their own businesses. at at&t, we know something about that. our company started out in a small lab, with not much more than a dream. and today, we know it s small 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rageing on in a case that has educators paying close attention. the meetings are underway to decide what belonging in history textbooks. some texas school board members think they should have a more conservative view. here s more on the controversy. reporter: texas buys a lot of textbooks. a bulk purchasing power that can not only fill a warehouse but can determine how all public school books are written. she learned something about how [ indiscernible ] was written and joined her son s school field trip as she expects the history to be accurate, she expects the history books in the classrooms to be correct. reporter: want my kids to learn that things happen and if there was something missing, teach them the new facts and let them decide, you know, later on that we ll have a chance to argue about them. reporter: wednesday, all the arguing will be in this building. the state school board members will continue a faceoff involving standards for social studies. the focus is supposed to be on the classroom. lately, it s been more of a reflection on the national political landscape. reporter: the tone of past meetings, framed by different agendas and accusations of historical timelines tom foolery. i believe there are members of the board, the seven-member voting bloc w are willing to sacrifice the truth in history to promote a skewed perspective. reporter: cathy miller is with the texas freedom expert and on to counter the religious rite. introduced a amendment at the last state board meeting that passed, that would undermine or suggest that the smear tactics of mccarthyism were vindicated. they have an agenda. they don t like the direction of texas or the history of america. reporter: had this is miller s political polar opposite. and the boogie man that they keep pulling out to suggest that thanks are not in their favor is because the fact that not liberal enough for them. reporter: the challenge will be to find the balance. the children on the playground will use them for at least the next decade. thanks for joining us. the news is far from over. news edge at 6 starts right now. what happened inside this house is a tragedy a virginia family is trying to understand. a woman frantically dials 911, trapped inside her burning home and firefighters know where she is and can t find her. investigators are going over the 911 and dispatch recording trying to figure out how this could happen. some viewers may find these reportings hard to hear. fox 5s sherri ly is investigating this. sherry? reporter: the 911
when we get snow cover, even if it s a light snow cover, it really insulates things and allows the temperatures to plummet. there s the snow cover. lexington park, folks in southern maryland got more snow than i thought we d get down there. a couple of inches. look at the mountains. a lot of this now is rapidly shrinking. it was a powdery snow. about 20-1, only a half inch that was the equivalent of two inches. look at the current temperatures. 29 degrees to 27. with that wind, our windchills already look at winchester. 9 degrees. and the sun has just set. so overnight tonight, we ll see more windchills. there are still winter storm warnings out to the mountains of west virginia where there s 30 inches of snow on the ground. early this morning, a little ripple in the atmosphere really brought in some heavy snows down toward the northern neck. all of that has moved off now. eventually even the snow squalls will bow moving out. telephonetu temperatures into the teens. look for a cold, blustery weekend. no more snow, snow-lovers. by the middle of next week, i think we ll be seeing temperatures near average. but that s still a ways off. we ve got the weekend. i ll show you dramatic pictures of today s snow and how cold it will be on saturday and sunday. thank you, bob. you know, dealing with this bitter cold weather is a challenge for everyone. tom sherwood joins us now from a busy street. he s out on 14th street in columbia heights with more on how people are coping. tom? well, i ll let you know i m cold. the snow from this morning is gone. people are still adjusting to the cold, cold wind, weather, and ice. a false alarm here in the district s columbia heights sent hundreds of customers out into the cold late friday afternoon. it was so cold and windy, we wondered why some people would even be out and about. what did you need so bad that you had to come out in this cold? it s friday. it s friday? and on fridays, i stop by the store to pick up what i need, little small things. i m in and out. and i m out of this cold. why are you out in the cold? m out in the cold because i have the day off and i want to eat chipotle. what are you doing with the return bag? i m going to go to cvs afterwards. reporter: in virginia, icy residential streets trapped motorists trying to navigate their way through them. some school buses in fairfax struggled to be on schedule as the washington region confronted ice, snow, and cold winds and temperatures. this man used his leaf blower to blow away the light dusting of snow. most roads in the district, even ones with steep hills, were reported mostly clear of snow and ice as the colder evening approached. just in the last few minutes, we ve seen two men walk by in bermuda shorts. we don t know what they re thinking. wendy, i was out here. there are a lot of people with those recyclable bags. lots and lots of people have them. at least they have something to put their gloves in when they buy them because it s so cold. people are starting to make a connection. that s great. thank you, tom. in virginia, there were no major problems today, but now officials are asking for federal help with snow removal costs. they ve spent between 30 and $35 million for snow removal this winter. during last month s historic blizzard alone, they spent $11 million in northern virginia. despite the costs, officials don t expect any budget cuts. in montgomery county, snow covered the streets making for treacherous conditions in some spots. one driver lost control of his car, flipping it on its side at connecticut avenue and university boulevard here. investigators believe the driver was going too fast for the slushy conditions. that driver was not seriously injured. and while most of the region just had a dusting, some parts of maryland got a couplef inches of snow. school children in charles and st. mary s counties had the day off. coming up a bit later on, we ll hear how folks in southern maryland dealt with the weather. the wizards banner of gilbert arenas taken down last night. his fans arrive tonight for the first home game since his suspension. they ll see a bare wall where his image once hung. the wizards will steak on the orlando magic tonight. lindsay czarniak joins us live with more reaction on the suspension and how it s affecting the team. i just drove in and saw that bare spot on the wall. the team has also taken gilbert arenas off of their website. when i talk to players early today, i got the sense of relief. they re simply able for the most part to put this distraction behind them. tonight, here at home, they ll be taking the court for the first time without the team s best player. gilbert arenas last played with his team when they played at philadelphia on tuesday. he had 19 points in that game. tonight, the wizards at home for the first time without him. they know there will be a big void. gilbert had seven games of 30 points or more this season, but the distractions were really prohibiting the team from focusing just on basketball. coach flip saunders says you have to forget and move on. that s right now how we re approaching it because we don t know. indefinite means indefinite. you know, i think that if there was a game you know, then you d approach it that way, but when it s indefinite, you go with the idea that it s like when you have a guy that gets hurt. you don t assume he s going to be with you until he s back. we ll take the same approach with gilbert. flip saunders saying that the team has to move on. he s relying on the other two captains to help keep the team together so that these guys don t splinter. obviously this is a crucial time for them to stick together as a team if they re going to help salvage their season. guys? ll right. going to be interesting. thanks, lindsay. still ahead, we ll see how fans are going to how fans are reacting to the suspension of gilbert arenas. the latest now on the attempted terror attack on christmas day. the suspect in the attempted bombing of northwest airlines flight 253 was brought to court in detroit today under very heavy security. once inside, abdulmutallab was arraigned on six counts, including the attempted murder of the other 289 people aboard the plane with him. the hearing lasted less than five minutes. he spoke very little and when the magistrate asked him if he understood the charges against him, he answered only yes. a public defender entered a plea of not guilty for him. meanwhile, the incident has prompted a rush for government agencies to better coordinate their terror watch lists. a senior security officia says abdulmutallab was kept off the no-fly list because of a misspelling of his name. the obama administration is also calling for tighter airport screening standards, which could have include the introduction of those full-body scanners. the scanners digitally undress people and u.s. allies overseas are already using them. the body scanner, it doesn t bother me. it s an annoyance, but it wouldn t bother me. there are things we can do to protect people s privacy. other security ideas being proposed include more intensive interrogations and lifting the u.s. restrictions on profiling passengers. vice president joe biden is mourning the loss of his mother tonight. he said that his mother passed away peacefully at their home. he was surrounded by her family and meany other loved ones. catherine eugenia finnegan biden was 92 years old. a montgomery county man is charged with the sexual assault of a hotel working last year. he is being held without bond. the incident happened october 29th around noon. police say a 24-year-old house keeper at the homel6 in gaithersburg was cleaning a room. the door was open and a man wearing a mask came inside and raped her. he left the scene in a green car. investigators found that investigate two weeks ago and they were able to connect it to the suspect through both the car and dna evidence. a virginia man got jail time for converting a legal firearms into automatic weapons, then selling thel. john walker will spend three years in jail after pleading guilty to various weapons charges. walker admitted to possessing unregistered firearms that he had converted to machine guns. in july, federal agents seized the guns from his home during a sting operation after he tried to sell two converted fully automatic uzis to ani agent. metro is facing a $30 million lawsuit tonight. a bus ran over a woman back in september. she suffered serious injuries. now she s suing metro, according to the washington post. her attorneys say it was negligence for the transit agency to put bus operator carla proctor behind the wheel. proctor was reportedly involved in two other accidents in recent years. and she got five traffic tickets in 2009. she has since been fired. major program cuts and fee hikes may be on the way for the schools in fairfax county. staff and programs are proposed to be cut. some sports will be eliminated and fees charged for participating. julie carey reports. reporter: it s hardly an ideal day for a track workout and along with the chilly wind, these students face some chilling news. this could be the last season for indoor track. nearly 3,000 students participate in a program that s turned out olympians, but under jack dale s budget, sports programs would be hard hit. freshman sports would end. so would winter cheerleading and indoor track. to raise revenue, athletes in the remaining sports would pay a $100 participation fee. to take out a varsity sport is not really a good solution. reporter: dan woolly heads up friends of indoor track. he says assessing the $100 fee could pay for the indoor track program. he d like to bring representatives of all sports together with the school board to find a way to avoid more athletic program cuts. last year, gymnastics was eliminated. we think that a program that covers all age groups and all genders and supports the academic growth is really where we need to be. that s why taking a program that is impacting 3,000 kids, we think it has very negative effect on our kids future growth. reporter: academic programs like foreign language in the elementary schools are also slated for major cuts. and hundreds of teaching positions would be eliminated, leading to larger class sizes. i have 5th grade that is at 37. that s not right. i have high school classes at 35, 36, 37. that s not right. huge concern. reporter: it s now up to janey strauss and the rest of the school board to wrestle with the proposal budget before sending a final request to the board of supervisors. julie carey, news4, fairfax county. parents are proting the idea of a tax increase earmarked for schools to avoid some of these budget cuts. julie carey will have more on that effort coming up on news4 at 6. stay right there. we re just getting started. getting back in economic shape for the new year. we ve got your financial fix. news4 at 5 just getting started. also coming up on news4 at 5, new developments in the michael jackson death investigation. find out who may be indicted in this case. plus, a fire battle in these elements. we ll tell you what this homeowner did wrong. and bubba the dog. we have an update. remember he got lost in the snowstorm, got hit by a car and still managed to make it home? we ll tell you what his fate is no two women were badly burned after trying to put kerosene in their heater early this morning. their home went up in flames in maryland. darcy spencer talked to neighbors who witnessed that early morning blaze. reporter: a fire destroyed a home on haulings river road around 7:30 this morning and sent two women to the hospital. one of the residents told her neighbor that she was filling a kerosene heater when it blew up. she was trying to add kerosene to her heater. and then it exploded. and her head was burned. reporter: the fire victim and her daughter were outside when she heard them calling her name, calling for help. i heard my name and i saw smoke. and flames. a little smoke, but immediately like in seconds, became flames and more smoke. it was very you know, she was barefoot and without clothing. in the snow? in the snow. reporter: the woman s daughter broke a window with their hands so their dog could escape. their cat is still unaccounted for. several neighbors called 911. the flames were shooting 50, 60 feet in the air. the smoke spread. the fire was almost 50 feet high. reporter: firefighters faced several challenged in not only battling the blaze, but getting to this rural area as well. there are no hydrants in the area, so tankers had to bring water to the scene. firefighters had to run hoses along a country road to get water to the house. and snow-covered roads made it challenging for the fire trucks and tankers to reach the burni home. our tankers range in capacity from 2,500 gallons to 3,500 gallons. they got on the scene right away. with the water being the primary use and the weather conditions, they do tend to freeze quickly. it is challenging for us. reporter: the two residents as well as a firefighter who was injured battling the blaze are expected to be okay. the cause of the fire remains under investigation, but fire officials are urging residents not to use kerosene heaters in the home because they re so dangerous. darcy spencer, news4. we got snow in most parts of the washington region, but in southern maryland, people got a couple of inches. that meant for a snow day for school children while most adults still had to dig out for work. megan mcgrath has more from charl charlescounty. they got between an inch and a half and two inches of snow overnight and early this morning. that was enough for the school system to cancel classes for the day. now, in terms of the snow, the greatest challenge for people was actually in the neighborhoods. you can see that they had some build-up of snow on some of the side streets. some people had to chisel ice off of their cars as they made their way into work this morning. and mainly it was a cumulating on the grassy areas and clinging to the trenes. a very, very pretty snow. not a major snow, but enough to cause some disruptions and enough to make everything covered in a blanket of snow and a very, very pretty morning for folks here in charles county. once you did get out to the major roads, everything looked good. they had pretreated. they were out there once the snow began. actually continuing to treat. so if. you could get out of your neighborhood and generally speaking you could after a little bit of work. once you got out to the major roads, you were good. that s what it looks like here in charles county. we have a developing story. the lanes just reopened tonight on the beltway after emergency pothole repairs. all lanes of the inner loop have reopened at the cameron run bridge. but there are still delays in that area. crews just finished working. significant backups are expected to continue through the rush hour. what a mess. you knew that had to be a bad pothole for them to stop rush hour to fix it. any snow out there on the streets now is not going to meelt this weekend? no. but even though the temperature does not get above freezing, that solar energy is enough to cause it to melt a bit, especially if you notice the south-facing hills. pretty much gone. we have great pictures from many viewers, including who is that? that s wendy rieger, who took these pictures of the west river. that s pretty. the nicest part about the snow was that it covered over all of that gray dark stuff, the piles of ice that have been around. there s ice out in the bay, isn t there? it s like watching the ice like watching a cover over the swimming pool. yeah. the thing is, this is still dangerous ice, so make sure all of the youngsters and especially with some light snow on the ice, any of the ponds are very, very dangerous. ice is not thick enough. outside right now, there you can see ice lang the potomac. our current temperature here in washington already below freezing. so many of those wet spots refreezing. into the record books, 21 of 25 days. this code pattern started back in the middle of december. since then, 21 of 25 days have been below average. i know you d forgotten. the average high, 42 degrees. look at the temperatures this morning. 28 degrees, 20s and teens early this morning. the windchills, look at chicago. it feels like it s 9. that s what we ll be feeling like tomorrow afternoon. there s a little ripple that moved through in that area of low pressure. it s now well off the coast. behind it, we did get that sunshine cing out. this is a great picture from the satellite. here we are in washington. this was just before the clouds broke up. i wanted to show you as that leading edge of the clouds was breaking up. look at that. you can see all of that snow covered. there s the valley out there in the beautiful shenandoah valley. you can see some of the clouds breaking up and that snow that amounted to more than i thought for you folks in southern maryland with two inches. weather watchers report that already it has shrunk. a lot of the snow cover will be gone, even though our temperatures will not get above freezing for this weekend. there are still lingering snow squalls on the mountains of west virginia. 30 inches of snow on the ground in davis, west virginia, now. so there s what s left of that area of low pressure out in the ocean behind it. once again, though, gusty northwesterly winds through a good part of the weekend. highs tomorrow again only around the freezing mark. but finally as we get into the middle part of next week, the pattern changes. bundle up this evening. tomorrow morning, it will be a lot of clear skies. with that snow cor, even though it s down to about an inch or so, any of the radiation will go back into space. we ll be as low as 14 to 12 degrees for you folks. a mixture of clouds and sunshine. a nice day. a bundle-up day with the temperature remaining below freezing. as we get into sunday, more sunshine i think. temperature around 30 degrees. look at the morning low on sunday. 16 degrees. tuesday, 40. do i hear 40? do i hear 45? a balmy 40. we ll see the temperature actually at average. that s when we re diving off that 16 on sunday morning, that s not the windchill. that s the actual temperature. yes. the windchill will make it feel about 10 degrees or so. yikes. thank you, bob. coming up, with so many controversies surrounding star athletes, who can kids look up to? we found the answer right in our own community. and you have heard the late-night rumors about the drama going on there. a lot of rumors about what s going to happen to jay leno and conan o brien. we ll sort it out. some surprising and disappointing news about the nation s economy tonight. the labor department says the nation lost 85,000 jobs last month. most analysts had expected few if no losses at all for december. still, the unemployment rate stayed at 10%. officials say many people looking for jobs gave up their search. one positive note, revised figures show a gain of jobs in november and this fact from the job search engine juju.com, washington is the easiest city for job hunters to find employment. baltimore comes in at number three. prince georges hospital is going to be a key player in large-scale emergency management. the hospital is going to receive $2.5 million in federal funding as part of an ergency response plan. the goal is to make sure maryland is ready to deal with a biological, chemical, or nuclear attack. the hospital s location puts it in a key role to help if a terror attack happened. you re on the outer edge of the district of columbia. and where if there s going to be a major attack on the united states, it is not going to hop into utah. the blast zone, whether it s bio or whatever, is right here. prince georges hospital center is the second busiest trauma center in the area. a paramedic whose handling of new york times reporter david rosenbaum led an an overhaul of a system is going back to work. rosenbaum was mugged and beaten with a pipe outside his northwest home. he died from his injuries two days later. paramedic salina walker was fired months later. authorities accused her of driving to a hospital on the other side of the city so she could stop and get money to buy dinner. she disputed those claims. the d.c. court of appeals has ordered that walker was wrongly fired and must be reinstated. two men were arrested and convicted of rosenbaum s murder. still ahead, fans are getting ready to head to the verizon center for tonight s wizards game without gilbert arenas. we ll see how fans feel about the controversy. and we ll share important tips on how to rebound financially in this tough economy. and we re going to graceland for a special birthday party. welcome back. i m wendy rieger. i m jim hanley. our top story, the washington wizards get ready to play their first home game since the suspension of gilbert arenas. fans are already beginning to arrive down at the verizon center for tonight s big game in which the team takes on the orlando magic. craig melvin is there live and joins us with their reaction and what s become a big mess in a bad season. craig? yeah, it has, jim. good evening to you. bundled up fans are braving this bitter coldness. they re grabbing a bite to eat, they re getting some pregame cocktails as well. all of the talk tonight has been about agent zero, gilbert arenas. here s the thing. we re not talking about a guy that comes off the bench. this is their superstar. the franchise. the three-time all-star, not playing tonight. everyone that we talked to knew that. many fans, though, many of the fans we ve talked to, they don t think he ll be back at all this season. it s going to be a hard season without him because he s, you know, a big-time scorer. you know, nba all-star. but, you know, hopefully he ll come back after the criminal investigation is over with. he s their best player. they re not even playing well with him right now. i m not looking forward to seeing what s going to happen without him. we ll see what happens. you know, i think they probably need to make some trades sooner or later. they took him down off the side of the building. that was my man. i m going to miss him in the games. that last fan talking about the banner that was taken down outside verizon yesterday. we re told that a similar banner has been taken down inside as well. the organization continuing to distance itself from gilbert arenas. coming up at 6:00, we ll hear from a young fan. he said something that was quite intriguing about this whole thing. we ll share that with you on news4 at 6. craig melvin, news4. jim, back to you. thank you, craig. sometimes professional athletes forget that the whole world is watching. in the wake of gilbertrenas and tiger woods scandals, we went to search for the answer to what makes a real role model. he joins us now in the studio to tell us what he discovered. john? thanks. it s not hard to see why so many kids look up to profl athletes. they have the fame, the fortune. what is it that makes a role model? here in maryland, the endless trophies and championship banners are hard to miss. their basketball team has a winning tradition, attracting players who hope to play in college and maybe even the pros. if you ask who their idles are, there s a common theme. dwight howard. he s level-headed, good player. good person to look up to. kobe bryant. kobe bryant. you know, he always does what it takes to win. whatever it takes to win. reporter: yes, those are nba players, but it s not necessarily a bad thing. he wants to use the gilbert arenas fiasco as aeacher moment. i m curious to find out what they think about situation and then talk about, you know, not get into a gun debate, but, you know, certainly the way he handled it wasn t great and the way he he certainly could have handled it better. reporter: the one d.c. firefighter is taking it further. he teamed up with his broer and a friend to start the basketball team ivy 23. when things get tough on the court, how to deal with them. when things get tough in life, you can use the same type of life skills. that s how it works. just like life. whatever you put in is what you get out of it. reporter: they spend about 20 to 30 hours a week coaching and fund-raising. but if you ask nathaniel blackman, he ll tell you he s not the real role model. do you consider yourself a role model? to some extent, but not really. why do you say not really? because i think t parents are the true role models. steve: the fire chief doesn t agree. we re so proud of the largent for all of the members of the district of columbia. for years children have looked up to firefighters, paramedics, emergency medical technicians. so we do play a role model position if you will in our community. i m very pleased for that. the debate can go on forever, but dennis reuben summed it up best when he said anyone in the public eye has an obligation to be a good role model. john, we want to welcome you from balmy new york, the bronx in fact. you re no stranger to washington. no. i ve been in washington before. i studied at howard university. that s where i got my journalism credits. i m excited to be back in washington. i love it here. i m glad to be part of the family. welcome. we re excited to have you. and the temperature will get better. good to have you. thanks so much. great report. thank you. coming up, officials may b on the brink of an indictment in the michael jackson case. we ll have the latest after this. plus, severe weather whipping up trouble all over the country. in some cases, it s sweeping people off their feet. strap on your ice skates and vote for the best place in washington to cut the ice. it s the competition for the golden local. prosecutors in the michael jackson death investigation will ask for an indictment against his doctor. sours tell the associated press dr. conrad murray will be prosecuted for gross negligence. jackson s death in june was ruled a homicide. primarily because caused by propofol. the prosecution s case will be complicated because dr. murray did not break any laws by administering that drug to jackson. nbc says it still wants the jay leno show despite reports that another shake-up of late-night activity could be on the way. several newspapers and websites have reported that the hour-long primetime jay leno show will be canceled or shifted to late night after the winter olympic games next month. nbc denies the speculation it plans to cancel the show and says it remains committed to keeping conan o brien on the network as well. today fans around the world honored elvis presley on what would have been his 75th birthday today. his daughter lisa marie presley and her children cut a special birthday cake. fans gathered to be part of the celebration featuring three generations. elvis presley died in 1977. his ex-wife said the king would still be performing if he was still alive. and the elvis exhibit started today at the mlk library in d.c. there are dozens of pictures from the star newspaper archives. it runs through monday. the smithsonian institution also launched an elvis exhibit. it s in one room and will be on view through august. a tv reporter in oregon was literally blown over by her assignment yesterday. whoa. oh, my goodness. she was doing a story on people who intentionally brave wind gusts of up to 100 miles an hour when she got a little caught up in her own story. she was a little beaten up from the fall, but not seriously hurt. that s when you send your oversized reporters out in the field. boy, that is some heavy winds there. that s when you call in sick when they want you to do a story like that. coming up, the local dog stealing our hearts. we have a health update on bubba, who survived a blizzard to find his way home and needs your help. plus, one of the wizards captains talks about the gilbert arenas suspension. d.c. has a new five-cent fee on paper and plastic bags and it doesn t just apply at the grocery store. the answers to all your the district has that new bag fee that s creating a problem. there s some confusion about this five-cent fee and what businesses use thel, what have you. so i m here to clear this up for you. about the fee, right? right. because you you don t know when you re supposed to be bringing your own bags, whatever. let s talk about where you can expect to encounter this fee, what businesses have to enforce this fee. this is a law. it s not something that you can just do if you feel like it. we went to the district department of the environment to get the answers. the fee applies to all retailers who sell food. we re talking about grocery stores, restaurants, delis, places that are allowed to sell food. it also applies to any place with a liquor license. there are more than 6,000 businesses in the district that must charge the fee. okay. and you mentioned the restaurants. so if i take have a doggy bag, that i m getting charged for that. but it also gets confusing here. i think it gets silly. carry-out spots or places with a deli license must charge for paper and plastic bags, but if the restaurant has seating, they have an exemption on paper bags. so if your boggy dag comes wrapped in a paper bag you don t have to pay, but if it comes in a plastic bag, you do have to pay. don t ask me why they did that. and what about other stores? like a department store, i go to buy a pair of shoes. people don t believe me here, but this is true. yes. grocery stores and restaurants, other places must also charge this tax. if a store sells food, then they must charge the five-cent fee. for example, a department store must charge the fee because it sells chocolates and other foods, even if you re just buying shoes at that store. you still have to pay five cents per bag. or if you re at a book store that has a cafe, you have to be charged for the bag even if you re only buying a book. so there s a lot on this new fee. go to the anacostia cleanup and protection act, go to www.green.dc.gov. the city has been basically having the reusable bag giveaway. you can check out for the next handout. you can submit any specific questions at that website as well. it is a little bit confusing. just expect in the district to carry your own bags. that s why i love the sacks because they wrap up they fold up to the size of your first and they openp into this great big bag. you can put three of them in the bottom of your purse and you don t even know they re there. if you have a question you d like us to consider for ask liz, send us an e-mail. all right. jim? we say thank you to our bag ladies. you are the experts on this. oh, so not nice. that was not nice. hey. liz, thanks. let s get the word on the weather now. it is about to get down-right bone-chilling, bob. it s already cold. we can see through our neighborhood network, there s still plenty of snow on the ground. in fredericksburg, it was a surprise mid-morning plast of some pretty heavy snow as this little area, a ripple in the atmosphere moved in over us. 27 degrees there right now. look at it current temperatures in the mid-part of the country. it s been bone-chilling into florida. this is a hard freeze warning out all the way now from southeastern texas on into the coast of florida, mississippi, and alabama. overnight tonight, temperatures will be into the 20s. look at the high temperature tomorrow in new orleans. 40 degrees. and jacksonville and miami, miami tomorrow, the high temperature, 49 degrees. folks on vacation there. overnight tonight, we ll see temperatures into the teens. highs tomorrow, not getting to freezing. highs on sunday. once again, below freezing. probably only about 28 to 30 degrees. slowly the temperatures do begin to increase by the time we get to tuesday and especially wednesday and thursday. i think for one of the first times in weeks, we ll see a cup of days with the temperatures average. that is the low to mid-30s. we re into now the coldest time of the year over the next couple of weeks. next week will feel like miami. yeah. bob, thank you. many sports fans have felt like what this next frustrated fan did. he ran on to the field during a game and tried to score a goal for his team. it happened during a soccer match in indonesia on wednesday. the man was caught by security after a brief chase. he later apologized. indonesia lost the game, by the way. it s the first time in 12 years they won t be reaching the finals of the asian cup tournament. he tried to help, i guess. that s never a good idea. no. you know who needs help right now? i think the wizards need help. it s the first home game since gilbert arenas was suspended indefinitely. playing without gil, nothing through for the wizards, but under these circumstances, it s a different story. changes continue for the organization. no more gambling on team charter flights. and this roster could be blown up very soon. anyone and everyone could be traded. that is including antoine jamison and caron butler. lindsay czarniak talked to those guys today. what is the feel in the locker room? what is the feel in the arena right now? right now the arena is empty except for the two teams that are warming up behind me. i feel like from the players perspective that their sense is a bit of relief. they re able to put this distraction behind them. the last time the wizards beat orlando at home it was december of 2006. guess wh. gilbert arenas had 36 points in that game. obviously it was a long time ago, but the wizards are going to feel an impact without their best player. tonight, they are excited about the opportunity to at least move . gilbert arenas was not with this team when they played their last game, obviously. he had already begun to serve his suspension. it was that game against cleveland. now it s really about moving forward and starting tonight at home. the captains of this team, antoine jamison and caron butler, had been working to help keep it together to avoid any more splintering. the team making an effort to remove all reminders of this situation. that includes this gilbert arenas banner. they just want to get back to basketball. i think the reality of him not being here for us during that period of time has really set in with us. you know, i know i definitely have. the most important thing for us is trying to find a way to turn things around. it s going to be a little bit more difficult now that he s not with us. so, you know, we ve still got enough to get it done. we ve just got to keep plugging away and, you know, just deal with what we have here. and hopefully the situation will take care of itself. you know, we ll get a good outcome as far as how long he s going to be gone and how long we have to play without him. but, you know, it s been going on too long. long enough. i mean, we definitely think of it too much negative publicity. i think guys are just to the point where we just want to get some positive publicity and turn it around, start winning some games. anytime that there s any focus away from what you re trying to do as a team, it s not conducive for you to be at your at the at the top of your game. it s something you have to fight through. what do you do to keep this team together? what extra things are you saying? we were just talking about it. we are judged by what we do as far as on the court. you know, we re still a you know, we re still a team that has opportunities to have success. through adversity, there s opportunity. we have to embrace the opportunity that s there. we have to show the people of d.c., you know, that there s a commitment. you know, from us as a team. and as an organization. i know how most most communities are, that if if the guys come out and play hard and they act and play in a very professional manner, that the people will embrace them. flip saunders is right. this team has really made a collective effort not to even bring it up again. i was just in the locker room. we were talking to earl boykins. he said i ll answer anything but nng about gilbert arenas. tonight their focus is on the court as they try to beat the orlando magic. and that is not an easy task. no, it s not. the orlando magic, one of the best teams in the eastern conference right now. yikes. thank you, dan. coming up on news4 at 5, how to turn your financial fortune around. we have some important tips to get back on the right track now. and we ll check in with our favorite little puppy, bubba. we are happy to report there has been an overwhelming response to a story we told you yesterday about bubby, the injured puppy. bubba is having his surgery at this hour, repairing his two broken legs. the phones are ringing non-stop. it s received hundreds of e-m l e-mails from people that want to make donations to help pay for his medical treatment. there have been dozens of offers to adopt this little guy. bubba got away from his home in manassas during last month s blizzard and he spent two weeks without food or shelter and we believe he was hit by a car. but he managed to struggle and make it home with two broken legs. his owner has lost his job, he cannot afford to keep the dog. if you d like to help, there s information at nbcwashington.com. hang in there, bubba. new economic data out today shows the recession still has its grip on the economy. an additional 85,000 jobs were lost in the month of december keeping the unemployment rate at 10%. despite the news, many financial planners say there are a lot of bargains out there to beef up your portfolio. reporter: the opening bell rings in great promise for the new year. in fact, the s&p 500 has recovered 65% since last march. the stock market is typically a leading indicator of what s to come. reporter: according to the experts, that gain could soon be yours. if you re looking at a three to five-year time horizon and beyond, then putting your money in the market should hopefully, you know, bare the fruit that you re hoping for. reporter: your best investment could be with the banking industry. in the form of bank stocks. it s not very often that you get a chance to buy citigroup, which is one of the biggest banks in this country, that s not going to fail or be taken over by the government for $3 and change. reporter: invest in treasury inflated protected securities. the interest rate goes up as the inflation rate goes up. if you think that the economy is recovering and that the worst of the recession is behind us, as i do, then these bonds will be worth more where regular bonds will be worth less. reporter: homes are also on the bargain list for 2010. there are a number of reasons why now could be the time to buy. this is one of the few times in life you get an opportunity to buy at the bottom of a market, whether it s a foreclosed home or a new hole. you ve got government assistance and very, very inexpensive prices. it s time to move. reporter: and not just for first-time home buyers. this year the government is offering a $6,500 tax credit on investment properties. 2009, there was a great rebound on wall street. 2010 is a year for main street. reporter: a prospect that s reason to celebrate. coming up, the bitter cold blast blowing right through the weekend. stay warm and stay right there. new numbers show it tens of thousands of people lost their job last month as the unemployment rate
1 10%. the man accused of trying to blow up a plane entered a not guilty plea in court today. programs will fall victim to fairfax county budget cuts. freezer temperatures are going to stay around a while. the snow wasn t really much but it was enough to cause problems for drivers this morning. no major delays but a few accidents. those road conditions caused some school districts to close or to open late today. and this evening, the story is shifting from the snow to the bitter cold temperatures that are settling in across our area. bob has got more on that. hi, bob. hi, doreen and jim. we had that fluffy snow with sort of a 20-1 snow. that is less than a tenth of an inch of precipitation. some spots down through the northern neck, more than an inch and a half to two inches of snow. but now that s settled down, but the temperatures, once we get light snow and clearer skies as we have with gusty winds, temperatures already at 6:00 into the low 20s. with a northwesterly wind, it already feels like it s in the single digits out in winchester. by later on tonight, we ll see temperatures tomorrow morning feel like they re close to zero, even around town with a northwesterly wind. 10 to 15 miles per hour. so dress accordingly. right now, the temperatures you can get an idea. out at elkins where there s over 20 inches of snow in the mountains there, 11 degrees. there s that little area of snow through the northern neck and really did a little snow burst early in the morning moving on out. here s how it looked at i-95 after being cleared. it really snowed for a time. that snow has moved out. we ve got a cold, blustery weekend. the good news is we, i think, will be seeing a pattern change. all of this as we get into the middle part of next week and for the time being, that is certainly for the next week or so, no more snowstorms. we ll see some moderation. but not this weekend. this weekend will be very, very cold with windchills dangerously low. back to you. thanks, bob. some new unemployment numbers were released today. 85,000 jobs were lost last month. that s disappointing information to many people who thought there would be little or no job loss for december. the unemployment rate is unchanged at 10%. brian mooar has more on this. there s a bit of a boom in temporary work, but right now companies are unwilling to make long-term commitments. shipping giant ups announced it s slashing its workforce by 1,800. they ll be joining the 85,000 americans pink-slipped in december. the nation s unemployment rate held steady at 10%, but that s not necessarily good news. the reason that happened is because we had over half a million workers give up, drop out of the labor force. if you re not actively seeking work anymore, you re no longer counted as officially unemployed. reporter: without clear signs of a turn-around, companies remain hesitant to hire. small businesses power the nation out of the last recession, but not this time. the question is why. it s not just confidence. it s also access to credit and lending. reporter: the nation has lost more than 7 million jobs since the recession began. but monthly job cuts now average a tenth of what they were in early 2009. the road to recovery is never straight. and we have to continue to work every single day to get our economy moving again. reporter: president obama is highlighting a program to grow environmentally friendly green jobs. this south carolina plant which makes power-saving smart grids and meters will be getting $5.5 million in tax credits. money used to save energy and jobs. and critics say the obama administration hasn t created enough jobs quickly enough. that sets the stage for another stimulus fight. jim? brian mooar, thanks. despite the jobless numbers, the markets managed modest gains today. it could be a sign that the fed will keep interest rates low. the dow picks up 11 points today. 10,618, the closing level. nasdaq gained 17 points. it closed at 2,317. and the s&p was up three points. it closed at 1,144. the man accused of trying to blow up northwest airlines flight 253 on christmas day made his first appearance in court today. his name is umar abdulmutallab. his arraignment in detroit lasted just three minutes. kristen dahlgren reports. reporter: abdulmutallab stood quietly in the courtroom. the 23-year-old accused of attempting to blow up a detroit-bound jetliner showed little emotion at his public defender entered a plea of not guilty on six counts including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and the attempted murder of the almost 300 people on board that plane. authorities say abdulmutallab concealed explosives in his underwear and that mass murder was only averted when the bomb failed to detonate. abdulmutallab s case changed the way we fly, prompting stricter security and a government review of what went wrong. today s hearing drew a peaceful demonstrate from the local muslim community, protesting against the violence of radicals. i feel like it s for us muslim-americans, we have to send out the message that we do not condone terrorism. we do not support terrorism in any way. and terrorism is not a part of our religion whatsoever. reporter: al qaeda in the arabian peninsula has claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing. the question of how much contact they had with abdulmutallab is one many hope the court case and the quiet yng man may soon answer. abdulmutallab s attorney did not request bail today, but the defense is likely to file tions requesting more documents related to the case the government is building against him. given the number of eye witnesses on board the plane as well as the admissions he made at the time, they say this case is unlikely to ever make it all the way to trial. in detroit, kristen dahlgren, news4. two additional men have been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to bomb new york city last year. the fbi says the men are associates of najibullah zazi. zazi is accused of trying to attack new york s transit system with bombs. federal agents tailed one of the susspectses before high arrested him this morning. the second suspect was arrested later after authorities searched his apartment in queens. those men could face charges of supporting terrorism and lying to investigators. both the abdulmutallab case and the new york terror plot now have u.s. government agencies rushing to increase security measures. the white house has new recommendations on how to fix the system. president obama says that the attack that failed on the attack that failed on christmas day is one that needs that demands attention. steve handelsman has our report. reporter: more u.s. allies are cooperating, and airports are now being patted down. italy is joining britain and holland, installing fall full-body scanners. it s an annoyance, but it wouldn t bother me. reporter: they digitally undress people. buteric holder said today better scanners are a must. d there are things that we can do to protect people s privacy. reporter: a body scanner on christmas might have revealed the bomb in abdulmutallab s underwear, but as the 23-year-old nigerian went to court in detroit today, another issue was why he was allowed to book a flight. a misspelling of his name helped keep him off the no-fly list. we all are looking hard at what did happen. reporter: now there s a rush to get the four u.s. watch lists better coordinated and more quickly updated. a critic says the christmas attack did not fail completely. with a guy who meant nothing to al qaeda, abdulmutallab, someone who really is very easily replaceable from their context, they have managed to cause the entire tsa system to go into chaos. reporter: and the arrest of two men today in connection with the suspected plot to bomb new york city s subways is a reminder that watch lists and scanners can t stop suspected terrorists who are already in the united states. steve handelsman, news4. other security ideas being proposed include more intensive interrogations and lifting restrictions on profiling passengers. there was a rocket strike today at the future home of a u.s. consulate in afghanistan. the site of the former hotel near the iranian border. the building has been leased by the u.s. government to serve as the consulate, but it is not yet occupied. three rockets were fired in the vicinity today. just one of them hit the building. some windows were shattered, but nobody was injured. it s part of a plan to increase the u.s. diplomatic presence outside of kabul. the mother of vice president joe biden has died. the vice president released a statement this afternoon that says that his mother passed away peacefully at their home in delaware. she was surrounded by her family and many other loved ones. the vice president left washington yesterday to be at her side. today he said his mother taught her children that family is to be treasured, loyalty is paramount and that faith would guide them through the tough times. catherine eugenia finnegan biden was 92. coming up, we ll tell you about a train that arrived at its destination 19 hours late. icy roads cause major problems down in the south today. whoa. budget cuts at fairfax county schools could eliminate sports teams and foreign language programs. and we ll tell you about two guys who went to the top of the world s tallest building and then jumped. wizards playing their first game without gilbert arenas tonight. lindsay is at verizon. she will have a live report. and alabama turns the tide against the longhorns. parents in fairfax county will notice changes at their kids school if new plans proposed by the school s superintendent are approved. among the changes offered are eliminating all freshman sports to save money, increasing class sizes by one student, eliminating hundreds of jobs, and adding $100 fees for every child who plays sports. some parents already are organizing to fight the cuts and offer solutions to save programs. julie carey has our report. reporter: some chilling news for thousands of fairfax county student athletes. a second year of budget woes mean the superintendent is proposing an end to indoor sports. athletes in the remaining sports would have to pay a $100 participation fee. parents are organizing to promote other solutions besides cuts. dan woolly says indoor track could be paid for with the participation fee. a program that covers all age groups and all genders and supports the academic growth is really where we need to be. taking a prac that is impacting 3,000 kids, we think, as very negative affects for the county and on our kids future growth. reporter: academic programs like foreign language in the elementary schools are slated for major cuts and hundreds of teaching positions would be eliminated, leading to larger class sizes. i have fifth grades at 37. i have high school classes at 35, 36, 37. that s not right. huge concern. reporter: it s now up to janey strauss and the rest of the school board to wrestle with the proposed budget before sending a final request to the board of supervisors. but some ptas are signing on to a plan to raise the profit tax rate and earmark the money for schools. the initiative is dubbed ten cents makes cents. do you increase the tax rate by ten cents because assessments will be going down, the average tax bill will not go up. reporter: ron reasons even in tough economic times, investing in schools is really a way to invest in property values. these cuts, which are devastating, will set back our system ten to 15 years. if these cuts go into effect, that will affect everything in this county. property values, you name it. reporter: a final decision by the board of supervisors won t come until late april. public hearings on the proposal will be held later this month. metro has removed a train operator accused of nearly striking a team of track inspectors last month. the incident happened justfter metro lifted a six-month ban on giving inspectors access to live tracks. the tristate oversight committee says inspectors had to scramble out of the way after the operator made no attempt to slow the train down. there are exhausted amtrak passengers in chicago right now. their train arrived at its destination 19 hours late. the train left sacramento, california, five days ago. it did not arrive in chicago until today. along the way it encounertered two-story-high snow drifts on e tracks in nebska. it also had to stop in iowa where the train hit a truck on the tracks. passengers say there was not enough food to go around and the crew members did not let them know what was going on. no one should have to go through what we went through on that train. we were cold. literally cold. we didn t have any heat. they ran out of food. it was a disaster the entire ride. i mean, i could understand one or two things going wrong, but it was just one thing after another every two hours. amtrak says it s going to offer refunds on a case-by-case basis. an international soccer tournament will go on as planned despite a deadly attack on one of the teams today. gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying the national soccer team of togo. a bus driver was killed and nine others including two players were wounded. one player says the attack lasted at least ten minutes and that they were in his words machine gunned like dogs. he adds that the team is inclined to pull out of the 16-team tournament, which begins on sunday. rebels are claiming responsibility. we reported last week about the tallest building in the world opening over in dubai. that thing is 200 stories tall. two men just had to be the first ones to jump off of it. they did. they re from the emirates aviation society. they got permission for the jump and they shot the jump. both of the guys landed safely. they set a new record for the world s highest base jump. that tower is located in downtown dubai. it cost $1.5 billion to build it. coming up on news4 at 6, 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(announcer) the contour meter, only from bayer. they have a mess down in atlanta today with snow and ice all over the roads. several cars involved in accidents. ice blamed for a 29-car pile-up early this morning. don t you hate it when that happens? atlanta owns only four sand trucks in the whole city. they had to borrow other trucks to treat ouch. to treat miles of icy roads. that is not fun. no. and there you go. that s the worst feeling in the world. and you know what you say. you say, oh, my. just when you lose control. you re just waiting it out. whoa! look at that. that looks like a sheet of ice. yeah. it s like the banana peel. there s the humor in there as long as you re not in that car. right. as long as you are not in that car. our driving conditions weren t too bad today. the side roads were a bit slick. it was nice to get all that gucky stuff covers with light snow. for however briefly. a little fluffy stuff. it s also a sound insulator. did you notice after it snows how it s just pretty. outside, here s how it looked. chester goes around and will shovel your walk. did you know that? and also provide us with a video. so anytime you want to have we get the snow, i m going to send chester to my house the next time. outside, you can see how light it was. our high temperature today made it up to the low 30s. 32. that s when we were getting left-over snow. now we re heading into the two coldest weeks of the year. our average high, 42. 21 of the last 25 days we ve been below average. look at these morning temperatures early this morning. it was into the well below freezing. outside right now, we below freezing. look at how dry that yare is. it was even dry when it was snowing. that s why we had sort of that inflated snow. less than a teh of an inch equated to over an inch and a half in washington. 26 this morning. 33 below zero in bismarck. rapid city was the spot that set 18 below zero record low temperature. it was records down into arkansas. jonesboro, arkansas, was in the teens. look at the current temperatures. it s cold not only around us. brownsville, texas, 37 degrees. jacksonville, florida, 40 degrees. right now that s the current temperature. and the windchills in florida also were into the 20s and 30s. it s been a really, really brutal pattern. there s the jet stream which has been diving to the south. that area of low pressure is moving out, away from us. did bring in that left-over wrap-around moisture. overall it is still a rather cold pattern. that will be finally changing. there s the pattern that we ve had for basically the last couple of weeks. as we get into next week, tuesday and wednesday and thursday, the really that jet stream will be lifting to the north. not only has it been storms here, but storms moving in to the pacific northwest. with the big pressure gradient, have you been out to the columbia gorge? with that ix treme pattern, this is a reporter trying to get a watch out! there they go. when the winds are up to around 100 miles an hour, you don t want to be a reporter trying to do your stand-up when the columbia river gorge. we re going to be seeing more of the same, that area of low pressure and storminess has moved out. behind it, we have strong northwesterly winds. that will be with us right on into sunday. the winds will diminish on sunday. temperatures tomorrow for highs, only 31 degrees. look at chicago and st. louis. the high temperatures tomorrow, into the teens. so it will remain breezy with the temperatures continuing to tumble into the low 20s. as we go through the next few hours. then tomorrow morning with that fresh covering of snow, even though a lit of it has compacted and melted, it really sets up the stage for a cold night. temperatures as low as the low teens. even the nearby suburbs. even for you folks in charles county when you had that day off from school. then as we get on into saturday, to sunday, the morning on sunday could be even a little bit colder with lighter winds. temperatures into the low to mid teens. by next tuesday, the pattern begins to change a bit. by the time we get into wednesday, thursday and friday, we ll be near average. that is 42 or 43 degrees for the high temperature. we are going to appreciate average temperatures so much more. open the pools. get out the shorts. i need to point out that i said that tower in dubai is 27,000 feet. that was really stupid of me. it s 2,700 feet. 27,000 feet is five miles. so get off your computer. coming up in the broadcast, how people are dealing with these bitterly cold temperatures. two women and a firefighter had to be taken to the hospital today. good news concerning the graduation rates at d.c. schools. and reports about that late-nath shake-up in the works here in nbc. a look now at the stories making headlines tonight. the news about unemployment was surprising to some. the government says 85,000 workers lauts their jobs last month. most experts lot there would be few or no jobs lost. the unemployment rate remains at 10%. the jobless numbers show that the road to recovery is never straight. the man accused of trying to bomb northwest airlines flight 253 on christmas day had his first appearance in court in detroit today. his name is umar abdulmutallab. the hearing lasted only three minutes. when the magistrate asked if he understood the charges against him, he answered with one word, yes. his public defender entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. the school superintendent in fairfax county is proposing an array of cuts and fees to balance the budget. among the plans, all freshman sports would be eliminated and all children participating in sports would pay a $100 fee. staff cuts and elementary foreign language programs cuts are also proposed. coming up in this half hour of news4 at 6, we ll tell you about reports that nbc is planning to shake up its late-night lineup. the wizards are playing their first home game since gilbert arenas was suspended. and we ll tell you how a cat ended up being summoned for jury duty. as noted, it is cold out there. bob says temperatures are going to stay that way. and this deep freeze has a lot of people hoping for an early spring. tom sherwood has that report. reporter: a false alarm here in the district s columbia heights. sent hundreds of customers out into the cold late friday afrnoon. it was so cold and windy we wondered why some people would even be out and about. i m from california. i m not used to this. reporter: what do you need that you have to go out in the cold to go to a grocery store? why don t you just stay home? i need tomatoes and some haul pa some food. reporter: what did you need so bad that you had to come out in this cold? it s friday. and on fridays, i stop by the store to pick up what i need, little small things. then i m gone. i m in and out and i m out of this cold. reporter: why are you out in the cold? i m out in the cold because i have the day off and i want to eat chipotle. reporter: so you re not going to the grocery. what are you doing with the return bag? i m going to go to cvs afterwards. reporter: in virginia, icy residential streets trapped motorists trying to navigate through them. the washington region confronted ice, snow, and exceptionally cold winds and temperatures. this man used his leaf blower to blow away the light dusting of snow. most roads in the district even ones with steep hills were reported mostly clear of snow and ice as the colder evening approached. tom sherwood, news4, washington. kerosene is likely to blame for a fire that destroyed a home and injured two women in montgomery county today. one of the victims told her neighbor that she was trying to fill a kerosene heater when it blew up. the woman and her daughter were taken to the hospital. a firefighter was also injured. firefighters had several challenge challeng challengeds. there are no hydrants in the area. a man has been arrested charged with raping a motel employee while she was at work. 23-year-old luis rivera of gaithersburg was arrested last ght. he s been held without bond. the incident happened last october at a motel 6 in gaithersburg. police say a housekeeper was cleaning a room when a man wearing a mask raped her. he got away in a green car. investigators say they found the car two weeks ago and were able to connect the suspect to the crime through both the car and dna evidence. prince georges hospital center will be a key player in large-scale emergency management. ste leaders announced that the hospital will receive $2.5 million in federal funding as part of an emergency response plan. the gold is to make sure that maryland is ready to deal with an attack. the hospital center s location puts it in a key role to help if a terror attack should happen. you re on the outer edge of the district of columbia. and where if there s going to be a major attack on the united states, it is not going to hop into utah. the blast zone, whether it s bio or whatever, is right here. prince georges hospital center is the second busiest trauma center in maryland and the hospital serves about 180,000 patients every year. good news from the district today. graduation rates are up. the mayor says 123 more students graduated in 2009 compared to the prious year. that s an increase of 3%. it makes the district s graduate rate 72% overall now. new programs have helped with the increase. and to increase the number of children who graduate. over the last couple of years, we ve had incredibly aggressive summer school programs and credit recovery programs. both of which we would say had a huge hand in our ability to rapidly increase the graduation rates. while 72% is definitely an improvement, it is not where she ultimately wants the school system to be. coming up on news4 at 6, we ll tell you about reports that nbc is considering moving jay leno back to his old 11:30 time slot. elvis presley fans celebrated what would have been his 75th birthday. and a young polar good evening. bob ryan, storm center4. a cold night. it s going to be a colder morning, too. we ll see that cold air in on us. stay inside or there are a lot of things going on this weekend. this is the weekend for the washington antiques show. one of our neighbors at the american university s art center. tomorrow and also this evening and saturday and sunday. so a lot of things to do. it s open to the public. stop by. 30 degrees is the high temperature tomorrow. high 20s on sunday with a lot of sunshine. winds won t be quite as much on sunday as they will be tomorrow. windchills making it feel like about 10 to 15 degrees even during the afternoon tomorrow. then finally we see a little pattern change. i think by next week, middle part of the week, temperatures for highs will be in the low to mid-40s. back to you. we re looking forer with to it. thank you, bob. wizards fans are showing up to see the team s first home game since gilbert arenas was suspended. arenas was suspended on wednesday indefinitely for an incident in which he brought guns to the verizon center. craig melvin has more on how fans feel about all this. hi, craig. hi, doreen. first of all, we should mention that the fans are freezing. let me show them to you. those freezing fans starting to file in to verizon. many of them talking about the ongoing gilbert arenas saga. the team desperately needing him. he s their franchise player. fans want to see him outthere, too. we met a long magic fan who will miss arenas for a different reason. i think it s a shame that he isn t playing because i d love to see dwight howard dunk all over him. i think it s a pretty dumb move what he did. reporter: yesterday the wizards took down the banner of arenas that hung outside hverizn center. fans say they understand why the nba has suspended him. i m disappointed. both gilbert and in the fact that the wizards didn t move faster and had to have the league intervene. but i m okay with it. it s a sport. it s not baseball. so there s going to be criminals there. reporter: mike and his wife made the drive in from virginia. they say they ll miss arenas tonight, but they re confident he ll be back. it s sports and they he s a pro. you know, it s just the way it is. you ve got to remember one other thing. he s only 28 years old. i did a lot of silly things when i was 28 years old. reporter: whether agent zero actually comes back depends largely on that ongoing criminal investigation and also whether the wizards will have him back. we are live at verizon center tonight. craig melvin, news4. back to you. there are reports of a late-night shakeup at nbc. sources say nbc wants to get rid of jay leno s show in primetime. reports claim the show will move to late night or be canceled altogether after the olympics. nbc has denied that speculation saying the network remains committed to leno s program as well as conan o brien s. fans around the world honored elvis presley today on what would have been his 75th birthday. there was a party at graceland in memphis. his daughter, lisa marie presley, and her children did the honors of cutting a special cake. presley died in 1977. his ex-wife says if he were still alive, he d be performing. i don t know if he d be doing rock and roll right now, but i think that maybe he d be going into gospel. maybe even preaching a little bit. he loved to have he loved to teach and he loved the bible. i don t know. you know, it s interesting. i do know that he would always be dedicated to his music. maybe a little hip-hop. not only is there a new exhibit in graceland, but there are a few in d.c. as well. the elvis exhibit began today at the mlb library. the smithsonian also launched an elvis exhibit. it s a one-room exhibit that will be on display at the nation portrait gallery through august. happy birthday, elvis. yeah, man. love him. a little before my time, but i ve heard a lot of elvis. talking wizards on the court this time. the crimson tide corral the longhorns. and would jim hazlett be happy in washington? we ll talk about it. news4 at 6 conti lindsay is inside. craig was stuck outside. quit talking over me. i m sorry. that s okay. it happens all the time. what kind of house do you expect tonight? that s a great question. definitely not going to be a sell-out, but you d hope for a good crowd. they re playing orlando. a team that s really good right now. the wizar are at home tonight for the first time since gilbert arenas was suspended. changes continue for the organization. the wizards become the second nba team to ban gambling on team charter flights. a card game was at the root of gilbert s argument with juvarves crittenton. at this point, nobody and i mean nobody is untouchable. lindsay czarniak down at verizon center. is anybody actual talng about this game right now? they re trying to avoid it, but i just heard the line of the night. the pr department needs a win badly. that s what the word around the street here is. just because there s been so much drama. is team knows that there will be more drama down the pipeline because of a lot of these players playing tonight who are involved in a photo that we ll show you. tonight it s all about basketball. the orlando magic is such a tough opponent. tonight they ll have to try to win without the former face of their franchise. the only reminder that you can find now of gilbert arenas is his locker, the stall with his name plate. his shoes are still there. there s a bigger reminder and that is a photo. gilbert arenas mimed like he was carrying guns. part of that behavior was deemed unacceptable. the players involved will face fines likely. the team is deciding on that right now. antoine jamison knows that it was in poor judgment. a lot of guys didn t know what was going to take place. a lot of guys, you know, didn t see that happening. i know you see the photo. when you see a certain image that photo really doesn t justify the way guyviewed the whole situation. so once again, it s just another use of poor judgment. you know, that s the reason why we re at where we re at right now, because of that. you just got to put it behind us. antoine jamison is one of the captains of this team. it s interesting, dan, because i ve been talking to a lot of popal tonight and the problem they re having now, a fine will be laid down possibly for several players. you look at one photo and it s very difficult to describe and figure out who exactly is involved for which reason. it s hard for them to figure out who they can give a fine to and how you justify that. that s something they expect to happen. they will get that approved. listening to some of antoine s comments, he definitely expects more changes to be made. did he talk about the possibility of him heading somewhere? he did not because right now he s so focused on keeping the core group together. he did talk about how earlier in the week stevenson was one of the players who had talked about, you know, well, we don t know. this could break everything up. that s the kind of mentality that you cannot have at a time like this. so whether or not he thinks it would be good for him to leave, who knows. he might want to be traded right now. the thing is right now they can t let their focus go there. all right, lindsay. thanks so much. it s going to be the wizards and the magic tonight at verizon. nobody hired or fired just yet. mike shanahan met with most of the current assistants yesterday. kind of a get to know you session. early next week there will be another round of interviews and then shanahan will make moves. he s not likely to keep very many members of the current staff. defensively, shanahan wants to go with a three-four scheme and is set to interview jim hazlett for the defensive coordinator position. expect a lot of yelling if that actually comes to fruition. he s also interested in cincinnati defensive coordinator mike zimmer, but they can t talk to him until the bengals are bounced out of the playoffs. one other note, seattle fired jim mora after just one season. no, it does not sound like jim zorn is a candidate for that job, but pete carroll is, and unlike in the past, carroll is very interested. i can say this, too, at least for one night last night, carroll would have liked to have been nick saban. alabama is the new national cha champion. the fourth straight sec school to take home the title. they beat up on texas in the national championship game. nick saban now the first coach to win bcs championships with two different teams. texas came into the game needing colt mccoy magic and early on colt with the ball gets popped here. didn t really look that bad, but texas head coach mack brown knew he was going to be in some trouble. colt said he lost all of the feeling in his arm. he would take himself out of the game. afterwards he said it just felt like i had a dead arm. a huge blow for texas. so in comes a freshman. his name is garrett gilbert. thrown into action. he was a little bit shaky. didn t expect to play last night. this is a shovel pass. deflected. talk about bad luck. picked off by big marcel darieu. takes it all the way into the end zone. gilbert and the longhorns go into the locker room trailing 24-6. but in the second half, the freshman quarterback played a little bit better. down 24-13, check out this pass. perfect to jordan shipley. it s a 28-yard touchdown. the two-point conversion is good. texas trails by just three. so now down by three with just over three minutes to go. texas has a shot but gilbert gored by eric anders. that was basically the ball game. that fumble recovery set up this. heisman trophy winner mark ingram plows his way in for a touchdown. that ices the ball game. bama adds another score. they win it by a final of 37-21. saban getting the old gatorade bath right here. he wins his second national title in seven years. they got him good on that one. afterwards, saban said he was feeling for colt mccoy. as much as i enjoy winning, you always see a great competitor. you hate to see a great comp competitor who has had a great career not be able to participate in a game that he s probably worked his into tire career to be a part of. and, you know, it s heart-felt for us and his family that he was not able to participate in the game today. but, you know, marcel dareus, i think, got the hit on him. we had ourind set on going undefeated and winning the championship. just the fact that we went out there and we accomplished that and we worked hard and we had a common goal and a common goal that we wanted to accomplish. it was real sweet that we re here. we took advantage of that opportunity. alabama, the new national champions. . caps playing in atlanta tomorrow. if i m the thrashers i m scared because the caps back in their groove after a short losing streak. they just pounded ottawa last night. third period, it s 3-1 caps. niklas backstrom goes to work. look at this wrap-around goal. just making it look way too easy. one more time. backstrom, great stickwork. the puck is like a yo-yo, man. how about alex ovechkin? so fast, so powerful. it s almost like tunnel vision, you know? coast-to-coast in basketball. you just can t stop him. yep. his 27th goal of the year. he had two assists. the caps win it 5-2. i m glad the caps are in this town. we need them right now. coming up, a young polar bear made its debut at a zoo in japan today. we ll tell you about a cat summoned for j at a zoo in japan today, they introduced their new polar bear cub. it s a she. she did not seem to be the least bit bothered. crowds of people walked around getting a glimpse, taking pictures. she is three months old now. just started walking. at birth she weighed just 1 1/2 pounds. that cub is now 26 pounds. won t be long before she s 1,100 pounds. very large. how cute. she is cute. one more check on that really cold weather forecast, bob. not so cute. heading out for this evening, look at the current temperature right now in washington. 27 degrees, give you an idea. those are the current look at omaha. one below zero right now. tomorrow morning, the winds will continue. the windchills even during the day tomorrow will be about 10 to 15 degrees. got friends in the midpart of the country. there are windchill warnings and advisories out. we ll see the actually temperature up into the 20s to 30. on sunday, only in the low to mid 20s for the high temperature. at least winds will be lighter. finally as we get into next week, there s no storms coming our way. not even other than a passing flurry in the mountains tomorrow. finally by wednesday and thursday, temperatures into the mid-40s. back to average. back to you. thanks, bob. tonight, a man from virginia accused of becoming so unruly on a flight that they sent up f-16s to escort that plane to an emergency landing. one of the biggest clubs of the city has been shut down indefinitely. more on why the cops are shutting down love. and a party for texas fans ended with a real longhorn running loose in las vegas. the city of boston sent a jury summons to sal esposito last week. sal is a cat. a well-fed cat, you might notice. his owners are anna and guy esposito. they aren t sure just how their cat got caught up in the massive wheels of justice, but they think it could have something to do with a form that mrs. esposito filled out during the last census. she considers sal a member of the family so she wrote his name on the form under pets. after she got the jury summons, she went online and requested that sal be disqualified from service. the jury commissioner, however, refused. the espositos say if the matter is not cleared up by the time sal s jury duty rolls around, they will take him on into court and plead their case in person.
in a few minutes. patranya bhoolsuwan has the drive. wednesday morning and drivers in arlington will run in to problems at route 110 just before the memorial bridge. wood beams on the roadways. cleanup crews are trying to clean that up. in virginia check out 395, a live shot here. little volume duke to seminary. after that clear to the pentagon. 66 eastbound smooth ride, as well. a disabled vehicle here. route 29 in centreville is off to the right shoulder. after that all clear to 495. check out the outer loop in maryland. an accident past gw parkway off to the right shoulder, as well. no big problems to report there. and finally head over to 27 a southbound. good morning for folks there. clear from germantown to gaithersburg to rockville. over to you. president obama expects a report tomorrow about what went wrong prior to the christmas day attempted terror attack. he s criticized the intelligence community for failing to connect several red flags that could have stopped the man accused of blowing up the plane bound for the u.s. reporter: months before the botched christmas day bombing, intelligence officials knew al- qaeda members in yemen were hatching a plan. cbs news has learned as early as august the cia found out they were planning a person for the terrorist attack that turned out to be abdulmutallab and even though his father warned officials about those ties, authorities didn t make the connection until after the bombing attempt. there were bits of information available within the intelligence community that would have an could have and should have been pieced together. we need to learn from this episode and act quickly to fix flaws in our system because our security and lives are at stake. reporter: the president has ordered a sweeping review of the nation s airport screening procedures and watch list. preliminary results are expected tomorrow. a systemic failure has occurred and i consider that un- - unacceptable. reporter: the reports could lead to a revamp of security measures nationwide. authorities have made improvements since 9/11 but they still have a long way to go. we must get better at collecting these bits of information, putting them together at a central point, analyzing them and then acting. reporter: it will be weeks before officials complete their investigation, but it may take much longer to figure out who may have helped with this latest plot and what other threats are out there. tara mergener , cbs news, washington. among the passengers on board that flight from amsterdam to detroit was dr. robert khan of baltimore. he describes his experience to 9 news now. when the whole commotion started there was a pop, as if a balloon was being punctured and there then there was suddenly i looked over and there was there was smoke coming from there and then there was fighting going on. i saw some struggling. reporter: kan said he didn t realize until later that a man tried to blow up his flight. four for years we have heard the national mall needs a makeover. in the national parks service is out with its grand plan to restore the health and beauty of the national mall. alex is on the mall with the details. good morning, alex. reporter: good morning, angie u. improvements would include a mull pi purpose multipurpose facility that offers food service, retail, information, integrated exhibits and performance spaces. there are grand plans for the great swath of green at the national mall which stretch actress the steps of the capitol to the river. one all calls for a makeover that concentrates on education. union square and the pool would be redesigned. the mall revamped. soil replaced for stronger vegetation. gravel walks refurbished and improvements for bike and pedestrian circulation and the idea is to preserve the design of the original designers. significant changes at union square restoring the ulysses s. grant memorial and changing the size of the reflecting pool to allow more room for events and demonstrations. no changes would be made to the world war ii memorial, constitution gardens and vietnam veterans memorial. live in washington, alex trevino, 9 news now and wusa9.com. thank you for that report. a late-night fire ripped through a montgomery county apartment building. it happened in the manor apartments in the 14200 block of georgia avenue. at least 7 apartments were gutted in three buildings. 14 families are displaced. i m glad that it seems like everybody is fine but i m worried about my belongings. it is everything i have and it s the end of the year and it is really bad right now. i m sorry. reporter: there were no serious injuries. the cause is under investigation. fairfax county authorities removed dozens of dogs, cats and other dead animals from a house in mount vernon last night. neighbors complained about the smell for some time. the homeowners face animal cruelty charges. the home is declared uninhabitable. time for another living smart report. jessica doyle is back with a look at local home prices. that s right. we are getting more good news about the health of the housing market. we like to hear this. washington area real estate prices took another step forward in october. the latest s&p price index shows prices rising the seventh month in a are row. the october gain was modest, half of the national average but the region outperformed the rest of the country when you look back the last 12 months. prices were 2.8% lower than a year ago and nationwide down 7.3%. more bailout money is being handed out pgmac is expected to get $3.5 billion more in federal aid to stay afloat. the company has received $12.5 billion in taxpayer money and is 35% owned by the federal government. an announcement is expected within days. this would be a way for frequent flyers to take some of the sting out of baggage fees. kiplinger reports that united airlines launched an all you can eat baggage plan. it is called premier baggage. for annual fee of $249, passengers can check two bags whenever they fly including up to eight companions. without a subscription the cost is $50 each way. analysts say other airlines may follow suit and a lot of people are getting caught by the baggage fee. they get to the airport and didn t realize this has been applied. can be uneffortable moment. it all adds up. thank you, jess. see you later in the show. the largest bridge construction in washington, d.c. is underway. over the next four years crews will demolish the two existing spans of the 11th street bridged enreplace it with three spans. among the changes, local and freeway traffic will be separated and drivers will be able to access 295 northbound and southbound from all three spans. vdot says there will be minimal disturbances to traffic patterns. a family goes on a christmas shoplifting spree. and a mother and baby thought to have died during delivery are brought back to life. we want to focus on maryland s weather and traffic. we begin with kim. we do. good morning, maryland. time to focus on you. here s a look at your temperatures. it is chilly out there. by thurmont 14 degrees. a lot of teens cumberland to southern maryland. the weather today will have increasing clouds. it will stay dry. you will be cloudier first. hancock, high of 33. 40 in bowie and 39 waldorf, potomac highs in the middle to upper 30s. westminster 34. stay tuned. we have dicey weather coming tomorrow morning. i will talk about that next but first patranya bhoolsuwan has the drive. good morning. we will start off on the beltway as we see this accident. an accident on the outer loop past bw parkway. still blocking the right lane. traffic is getting by to the left. check out the side streets and see how things are looking. shady grove, 355, a few cars out there. no big problems to report and falls and river roads are not too bad either. watch for icy spots, bridges, ramps and overpasses. those will be dicey. back to you. believe it or not, it is a great morning. best-selling author and motivational peek speaker willie jolly says you should take time to live your dreams. happy new year s eve. new year s eve as we prepare to leave this year of 2009 move in to 2010. i want you to look back at this day. look back at the lessons you have learn. what you have gone through and what you accomplished. many people look back over the years and say nothing has changed but a lot has changed and if you take a moment to think of the great things that have happened this year. one of the great things, you lived through the year. that s a great thing. another great thing is you were able to make it in times when some people gave up on life. so i m excited about between and what i learned in 2009 but i m more excited about what will happen in 201 a and how it is time to win in 2010. you say that. it is time to win in 2010. enjoy yourself this evening. be careful. don t drink and drive and be careful about your activities but be wise so you can make the most of 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at least but they took the snow in stride and took shelter during the storm. we are hearing the winds in our area, they are out of here. kim martucci is here with a look at what we have as far as the weather is concerned with the day ahead and the weekend. no wind, that s good. we will take a break from that and start to transition our thought bubble in to oh, no, what next. that is tomorrow morning when we have a chance of sleet and freezing rain, just around the morning rush hour. let s get this off to a good start and focus on tomorrow in a while. here s what is going on. the high clouds on top of us. if you don t have any rain, snow. you are in good shape. just cold outside. look at this temperature. we re at 24. at least the winds are from the west at five. that creates a wind chill in the teens. a lot of other locations are waking up to the teens. among them, frederick, gaithersburg, baltimore, north and west to martinsburg and out to winchester where my buddy tobias lives. 19 manassas and culpeper an i m sure catlett is in the teens where charlie, one of miff favorite weather watchers lives too. today not bad, upper 30s. we will have filtered sunshine but then it is way late in the overnight tonight, tomorrow morning that we could have some sleet and freezing rain changing to rain during the day and then new year s eve itself will be damp. we will have some rain or snow showers mixing in and that s the case on new year s day when we start to see the temperatures drop again and the winds will kick up as we head to the weekend. , so this afternoon, we re keeping it chilly. better than yesterday with an increasing cloudy forecast. all right. let s take a weather flight. here s phase one of the next storm. it is across new orleans and eastern texas. parts of arkansas and overspreading missouri with snow this morning. phase one of this comes over us tonight and tomorrow morning that s whattives talking able with some icing. after that little chunks of energy zip over us and congeals ai don t see new england and not here. we will be spared a monday store storm. the clouds thickening up. here s what it looks like tomorrow morning. pay attention to the orange area. sleet or freezing rain. if you could have your choice we d rather have the sleet, freezing rain is much more dangerous to drive on. this system comes up, this low of 31 in the morning. as the low works up the coast it changes over the temperatures to close to 40 and that will change over to rain. that will be good news. damp but it shouldn t be icy during the day tomorrow. and then tomorrow night cold air wraps back in and that s why we have to talk about snow mixing in the weather forecast for your new year s eve plans and on new year s day. anyone traveling to new york city it will be a mess that direction, too. standing outside in times square. this isn t going to be the best year to be doing that. look at the seven-day forecast, on the other side of the storm we will have windy weather, rockin you on saturday, especially and those temperatures will be trapped around the freezing mark on saturday and sunday, too. cold air kicks off the new year. on monday and tuesday still in the 30s. i remember a couple of years ago when i first started to date my husband we had record highs in the 70s. we are going from that to 30s to kick off the new year. what a change around. patranya bhoolsuwan, good morning. itis to be cold. as you head out on the capital beltway we have sky nine working hard for us as i step out of the way and check out the outer loop. the the accident at bw parkway, all lanes are back open after the accident is cleared to the shoulder. a smooth ride to georgia to 270. check the maps and see thou the traffic information is kicking in. right now no problems from 485 or 301. inbound new york avenue in the district. a live shot there. not many cars. no congestion from the times building all the way to the third street tunnel. another live shot out there for you as we take 395 northbound. this stretch is looking fantastic. slow between duke and seminary. after that all clear. good news, route 110, the debris on the roadway has been cleared and 66 eastbound, more cars but no incidents or accidents that we are seeing. back to you. some are calling it a christmas miracle. a colorado mother and baby both died during labor. the doctors were able to bring them both back to life. that s your baby brother. mike and tracey almost didn t get the chance to introduce their two boys to their baby brother. it is a christmas miracle. on christmas eve tracey s water broke and went to the hospital thinking it was a routine delivery like the other two. i went in to cardiac arrest. she was dead. she had no heart beat, not breathing, gray as her sweat suit, no signs of life. reporter: after trying to resuscitate tracey for several minutes. i sat there with my wife s hand in mine, ice cold. she was totally blue. reporter: the doctors decided to do an emergency c- section rite then and there but when the bane came out, he too wasn t breathing. half of my family was laying there in front of me in my hands, no other way to say it but dead. reporter: then came their christmas miracle. immediately after delivering him her pulse came back. doctors rushed him to surgery and the baby s lifeless body was handed to mike while doctors tried to get him to breathe. they got him started in my hands. so that is an amazing feeling. reporter: now, days later, with no signs of complications. i got a second chance at life. reporter: the family is home, getting to know their new baby colton. to the pro bowl once again snub a deserving red skin? and the international custody fight between a new jersey father and brazil is apparently not over. we ll be right back. the wizards return to verizon center last night hoping to get on the winning track against oklahoma city. we pick it up in the third as jamison knocks down three of his 28 points. the wizards are up by five. in the fourth, arenas hits his own three. wizards are up by one. holding the lead has been a challenge this year. durant had 35 on the night. thunder wins by 12. congratulations to brian orakpo. the redskins rookie is headed to the pro bowl. he s the first redskins defense rookie since the merger and the only redskin selected this year. and while orakpo is selected to go he thinks fletcher should be here too. fletcher has done so much for me and i would trade slots with him anytime. he deserves it as much as me or more. i would trade my spot for him any day for what he brings to the table and to the team. minnesota s 40-year-old bret favre earn his 11th selection to the game. davis gets his first pro bowl nod. he will represent the 49ers. ravens will send ray lewis and ed reed. ucla and temple met in a second annual eagle bank bowl at rfk stadium. the touchdown gave temple a lead but ucla fought back. the interception and took it back for the easy touchdown. bruins down the owls 30-21. up next, a first of its kind anthrax illness in the united states. and new details in a lesbian custody fight that has received national attention. let s look live at the capital beltway as we take a shot of 495. the accident past the gw parkway has been pushed to the side, not adding to the delays in this area. kim martucci , take it. it is a cold morning outside. good morning. grab your coffee. i will have the forecast ready to go. it is coming up on the other side of this break. we ll see you there. produce with a 100% guarantee. means freshness is always in season. rancher s reserve beef, guaranteed tender, says you re always ready to grill. and now, safeway has a new promise. a commitment to thousands of new everyday low prices. so you can get what you want. when you want it. at the price you need. today. and tomorrow. that s our promise. and that s. ingredients for life. safeway. new york city is getting ready for new year s eve. yesterday the city conducted the annual confetti test. 3,000-pounds of paper will shower down on folks after the ball drops in times square. each colored square that falls on new year s eve will contain a personal message from somewhere around the world. welcome back. it is a cold morning out there. kim knows that firsthand. she is live from the weather terrace. hey, kim. you know what i am learning firsthand? spray on panty hose don t keep your legs as warm as the real deal. so i would think of a couple of extra layers this morning, ladies and rethink the skirt. let s get started. we have widespread teens and 20s out here. we range from 14 in cumberland to 24 in the district. even 20 at ocean city and with this cold air it is stuck in place. at least don t have the winds on top of us. high clouds will do the trick filtering the sun but it will let us feel like the 30s instead of the teens. these high clouds are giving us a heads up. a storm system for tomorrow morning. the scoop on that coming up in a bit. here s patranya bhoolsuwan with the drive in. a live look at the outer loop first. an accident we have been talking about has been cleared from the roadways at pw parkway. traffic is moving well, as you can see. the traffic is picking up a little bit. moving well to 270. live shot here at 270 southbound. see how things are looking from 121 to the split. no accidents. we are live at montgomery village avenue. this area usually gets clogged up, especially in the afternoon. but so far so good. let s check out the gw parkway in virginia. here it is clean and green. everyone is at speed. that s what we want to see, 123 to 495 and finally 395 northbound. so far so good. no incidents or accidents. back to you. thank you. new information this morning that the cia knew about a terror threat before last week s attempted attack on a detroit-bound flight. the government reportedly had intelligence from yemen that al- qaeda leaders were talking about a nigerian preparing for an attack. the information did not include the man s name. the cia says it first heard about abdulmutallab in november after his father went to the u.s. embassy. president obama expects a preliminary report on the incident by tomorrow. in new hampshire, authorities are investigating the first known case of gastro southwestal anthrax. investigators belief the woman contracted the disease while at the united campus ministry center in durham. spores were found on two drums and an electrical outlet. one theory is they became airborne through vigorous drug playing and the woman then swallowed them. police are investigating the second homicide of 2 p 2009. a man was found dead on north 13rd street yesterday morning. police say diner was not shot but suffered trauma to his upper body. the entrance to a stadium in salisbury is a temporary memorial to 11-year-old sarah foxwell. her body was discovered three days after she disappeared. a convicted sex offend every is being charged in the case. police want people to leave momentos at her school and not where the body was found. the national mall will get a makeover but what will it look like and when will it be done? alex trevino is live on the mall with the details. reporter: people come to this historic open pace to demonstrate their rights and show their people and now it is time for much-need improvements to the national mall. they are looking at three options, most of the alternatives feature a multipurpose facility on or near think grounds and are a redesigned you know square. one proposal also includes removing or shrinking the reflecting pool to make room for events an demonstrations. another idea that is not ceo concrete, the 14th street tunnel for motorists. nothing is set in stone. the nationals parks service is taking the public s recommendation through march. the price tag could be as high as $705 million. live from washington, alex trevino, 9 news now and wusa9.com. it s not over yet. that s the message from a brazilian family fighting for custody of his son. last week, a brazilian judge awarded custody of sean to his dad. sean s brazilian family said the decision does not end the legal process. david goldman will discuss the case during the first half hour of the cbs early show this morning. a vermont judge said the birth mother of a 7-year-old virginia girl must transfer custody of the girl to the woman s former les pee beian lover. the judge says she disappeared with the girl. miller and jenkins were joined in civil union in 2000. the girl was born two years lair and the couple broke up in 2003. time for another living smart report. jessica doyle is back with a look at the year on wall street. well, the word rocky is a good word to describe the ride that investors have had this year. the best and worst of times for wall street. the market is back to levels not seen since the fall of 2008, around the time of the collapse of lee man brothers but far from the peak in 2007. year to date the dow is up just over 20%. the nasdaq is up 45% and the s&p is up 25%. all three major averages up even more substantially since hitting lows in march. all financial markets are open today and tomorrow ahead of new year s, but they are closed on friday for new year s day. don t expect any breaks on your health care costs next year. hewitt associates is out with some estimates. the average large employee will pay $4,000 in premiums and out of pocket costs next year, that is 10% more than this year and three times the level in 2001. did you get a gift card for a store you don t really like this year? $5billion in gift cards go unused every year. but there are many websites that will let you sell or trade them. plastic jungle, gift card rescue and swap a gift will give you cash for unwanted cards. card hubs app on facebook lets you create a list of those you want and others you can swap and you can even donate them to charity. i have links to this on my blog. i took all of my gift cards and put them in an envelope and said i m going to use them. because you do forget about it. you do. are you ready drivers? get ready to pay more to park in some parts of the district. according to the washington post, most meters will charge the equivalent of $2 an hour. $2 an hour. and no more free parking on saturdays. you have to feed the meter. downtown night time parking enforcement will extend to 10:30. new rules are expected to be in force next month. a prison escapee taunts police on his facebook page. and a local security expert says he knows how to make flying safer in the u.s. those first but begin with kim martucci. that s what we do every morning at this time. the spotlight is on you, virginia and i have chilly temperatures across the board. widespread lower 20s, chantilly 21. reston, as well. and it is going to be a cold day. the good news is, it won t be as windy as yesterday. at least we don t have to contend with the wind chill. we will cloud up the skies over wood stock and folks in arlington, where we had wood beams blocking route 110 for crying out loud. king george 40 and partly sunny and amissville 44. i will have the complete forecast looking in to the brand new year when i see you in a bit. patranya bhoolsuwan has an eye on the traffic. good morning. chilly out there but time to get up and going. a live shot at route 50. glebe and arlington. no issues there. no major complaints from drivers in fairfax either. pretty empty from route 50 and 29. finally fly over the dulles tool road from the fairfax county parkway from the tollway though beltway no problems. all clean and green. thank you for spending this wednesday morning with us. we will have more news, weather and traffic coming up. time to check in with harry smith in new york who has a preview of what to expect on the early show this morning. goodgood morning, harry. still talking about a lot of the same subjects you are down there. on the early show, president obama demands answers over the attempted christmas day terror plot. will he get them? we ll find out. christmas may be over but detroit is offering up some unbelievable presents. deals on cars that are going out of business. we will tell you what they are selling it is a good buy. a christmas miracle a near tragedy turns to joy as a woman and her newborn somehow come back to life. we will bring you their incredible story. looking forward to it. thank you. since the christmas day attempted terror attack there s been a lot to talk about improving screening technology. that is crucial but some say there is something missing being observant of the people around you is critical in the fight against terror. reporter: airport screening check points urn the microscope after a would be suicide bomber tried to take down the detroit bound jet liner on christmas day. experts say we cannot put all of our efforts in to technology. that is not true. the technology keeps failing. reporter: this man is president of new age security solutions and he specializes in human behavior pattern recognition and he says we re neglecting the people behind the bombs. we re not interested in a person s religion or in a person s ethnic background, or their color of his skin. what we are interested in is his or her behavior. reporter: the case of the christmas day attempted terror attack the suspect had stress indicators. nervous, pacing. reporter: on board the plane the unusual signs continue. most passengers do not spend that much time undressing. we know he needed that much time to prepare his device and himself for the final move to the next world. reporter: and there was more when he returned to his seat. this is a war between people and the people that are attacking us have all of the elements of human behavior, including the failures of human behavior. they expose themselves along the way. i should be more observant myself but i think so. i think everyone should look out for anything suspicious that s going on. they say behavioral profiling has nothing to do with race or culture. only a handful of airports subscribe to the method and he says that all should. if you are flying today, we will segue in to weather. shouldn t have too many delays because the wind can always delay you and we don t have those today. so today is a good flying day. not so much tomorrow morning. if you can leave ahead of the next weather make you are you would be in good shape. let s get started. chilly morning outside. widespread teens and 20s out there. 13 winchester. 14 cumberland. inside the beltway, 24. andrews is 22 and they are in the teens up if baltimore. here s how it looks from the sky. those are ice crystals fillerring out what will be the vise. we will have the filtered sunshine today. not the warmest of december days. winter is here. at least we will be the 30s, unlike wind chills this the teens all day long. by the afternoon, i think the clouds will be thickening up. we will stay dry today. not so much tonight. tonight we have to talk about the early-morning hours of thursday, getting sleet or freezing rain before changing to rain as the 42 heads up the coast an watch snow mix in during the new year s eve celebration and new years day. it will be cold in the 30s. here s where the storm is now. we will take flight to texas t. it is raining over houston, new orleans, baton rouge and all of this, this is phase one of the storm that will be cruising across our parts tomorrow morning. phase two and three happen at separate times and they all congeal around new england missing us to make for the monster storm. probably going to feel the affects of the storm with gusty winds. let s recap it. today 39 with filtered sunshine. tomorrow morning, this is arthric i can graphic. what graphic where you might want to look at the tv. i have this orange color which means ice and it is the nastiest of the stuff. sleet and freezing rain tomorrow, waking up to 31. here s the low. it comes up the coast and brings warmer air here, at the surface and aloft. that s key to get the column warmer so we get rain during the daylight hours. this is know across new york state. tomorrow night, new york city will be a sloppy mess up there. not the best of new years to be heading to downtown new york. not at all. seven-day forecast, are for it? some snowflakes on new year s eve and new years day. and it will wind up with gusty winds. it will be gone on saturday but the winds remain 33. sunday s high also 33 not as windy but still cold and next week we can t shake free of the middle 30s with a high of five degrees colder than average. how is the drive, patranya bhoolsuwan? i do too but a chilly drive to work this morning. a lot of drivers having the heater on full blast which is a good idea. the drive on 95 is looking good. little volume prince william and fairfax parkway. otherwise so far so good to the mixing bowl. 395 northbound, five to ten minutes extra duke to seminary but after that all lanes are open to the district. check the realtime traffic information as we take the 95 to 66. drivers going up to speed, 60 miles an hour past annandale. no big problems to report here. another live shot on the outer loop. traffic is definitely picking up 95 to georgia but so far a smooth ride in terms of accidents and incidents. and fly over 50 westbound past annapolis in to the beltway, in to the district. not seeing any problems. all clean and green. everything going at speed. back to you. thank you. quite a scare in a local emergency room. over the weekend, police say evan graham walked in to the er at prince georges hospital center following a disagreement with the staph, the security guard asked him to leave. pulled out a flare gun and pointed it at the security guard. after that he fired two shots in to the air, which struck the ceiling of the hospital. reporter: no one was injured and graham is locked up facing charges. the incident a reminder that health care workers face the threat of violence every day on the job. in the emergency nurses association is lobbying for trained, and countried security personnel to protect workers in emergency rooms. you may think someone who is safe from prison would try to stay out of the limelight but that is no what craig lynch is doing. he escaped three months ago and since then has been taunting police through his facebook page, mocking them for them not being able to find him. and he has 17,000 fans and police are asking for those fans to help to find lynch. new plans for the national mall. and customers very scary and friendly greeting at wal-mart. what s in the news now? stay with us. in the news now, 14 families were displaced after a fire at an apartment. check out the scene from a florida wal-mart. 23-year-old man punches a 69- year-old greeter. the greeter asked to see his receipt but the guy took offense and he is now in jail. what the that s some holiday spirit. jeez. looks like our weather is better. won t be as cold as yesterday, simply because the winds are giving us a rest. filtered sunshine gives us a heads up that a storm is on the way. it is almost 6:54. you are watching 9 news now. good have you gotten your seasonal flu vaccination? great - but your work s not done yet. we still need to get the h1n1 flu vaccination. you, me we should all get one. the vaccine is safe and proven effective against this highly contagious new strain of flu virus. we can help prevent the spread of this virus if we all just roll up our sleeves. to learn more about the h1n1 flu vaccination visit h1n1get1.com or call your local health department it s up to you to fight the flu. 900 truckers are trying to find their way home after their company shut down unexpectedly. we found one trucker who said he found out via text message as he was heading out on a virginia run. the timing is the worst thing and not being told in a better way. i m sure some guys are having to sell whatever they could. reporter: he said they get to keep the truck but they said the company cancelled the fuel cards when i want closed leaving drivers stranded across the country. not good. how much do you trust your gps? an oregon couple sayser that new gps recommended a route that would save them 40 miles on a trip to that family member s home. instead the suv became stuck in the snow on the back road and there was no cell phone service. they used the car to keep their baby daughter warm and looked for help. when i looked in the mirror and i said i m scared and he said i m scared, too and that s when i was like oh, this is not good. reporter: finally a relative used a similar gps device to track their rout and locate them. from now on they say they will stick to highways only. not a bad idea. good idea. your personal gps this morning. that i am. take out the breaking news. sky 9 is over an accident. bad situation. dozens of firefighters are on the scene. this is northbound bw parkway past route 32. it appears an overturned vehicle. they are trying to possibly get someone out who may be trapped in that car. this is blocking all lanes. northbound bw parkway past route 32. packed up down the beltway. a really bad situation. we will keep an eye on that. 270 southbound, problem for you from germantown past falls road to the split. and in 66, no complaints out there for drivers. over to you. good news today, everybody. it will be better than yesterday. filtered sunshine and 39. tomorrow morning probably going to be dealing with a lot with some possible ice on the roads changes over to rain and after the storm winds up in to the first weekend of the new year it will be really windy. what s coming up on the early show ? we will look at wall street. we are heading lower before the opening bell. of course it is the second to last trading day of the year. the early show is next. we will examine whether government officials could have prevented the christmas day at
no more wind, yea! we re done with the wind for now. we will have to deal with it later in to the weekend but at least the wind is over and now we are facing cold temperatures this morning. not wind chills but actual temperatures in the teens and 20s. get started with the satellite loop. some high clouds are trying to spill in ahead of the next system but just filtered sunshine. no rain or snow locally. we re 24. cumberland 16 and ocean city can t stay that warm this morning. they are at 22. other local numbers show teens in frederick and gaithersburg, winchester and culpeper. fredericksburg 24. the way i see it today in the mid-20s through 9:00. mostly sunny at noon, 36. mostly cloudy at five. 38 degrees. i will have the seven-day forecast in a few minutes. good morning, everyone. we are midway through the week. a lot of people have a short week and that makes it an even better day out there. traffic looks good as we check out 95 and bw parkway, clean and green. no problems on that route. as we jump on the beltway and see how traffic is moving on the outer loop in maryland, 95 to georgia just a few cars out there. smooth ride. 4, 5 and 301 as we switch our maps to that area, no big problems. clean and green, as well. in virginia, 395 northbound still clear from duke too the pentagon. no problems there and 95 northbound triangle to springfield, all lanes are open. it has been talked about for years and now the national parks service is revealing its plan to overhaul the national mall. 9 news now digital correspondent alex trevino is live on location with the new details. let s hear it, alex. reporter: there are a few alternatives on the table. each with a different focus but all with the common goal to restore the national mall so it may symbolize the ideals and greatness for our country. there are grand plans for the great swath of green at the national mall. one plan calls for historic landscape makeover that concentrates on education. union square would be redesigned and the mall revamped. gravel walks refurbished and improvements for pedestrian and bike circulation. under another plan, the mall memorial an landscape would be protected. the idea is to preserve the design. significant changes would be made at union square, restoring the ulysses grant memorial and some would shrink the size of the reflecting pool to allow more room for demonstrations. the parks service is accepting critiques our mid march. the price tag could be as high as $705 million. live from washington, alex trevino, 9 news now and wusa9.com. thank you. this morning dozens of aspen hill residents are waking up away from home because of a fire. it started in the 14200 block overgave avenue. 100 firefighters battled flames there but crews had to cut the power off to all of the buildings. looks like the apartment next to ours, there is a lot of smoke coming out of it. there was a minor explosion. in addition to fighting the flames an the cold, firefighters had some trouble accessing the burning three- story building. the red cross assisted people from all three buildings to find places to stay for the night. the red cross also helped people in leesburg virginia that were displaced by a fire. firefighters rescued several victims from two town homes. the cause of the fire is under investigation. an autopsy has determined that the death of a maryland girl kidnapped from her home, she died of multiple injuries. at point, the medical examiner s office is not detailing what those injuries were. foxwell was taken from her home on december 22nd. her body was are you found christmas day. police have arrested a suspect. investigators say he is a registered sex offender who once dated the girl s aunt. police in prince william county have been searching for julian coal for two weeks and yesterday they found her body. her body was not found far from the scene. the girl is staying with relatives. there s no word on how kroll died. a maryland pee man is speaking out about his close call. i looked over and there was planes and smoke coming from there and then fighting going on. i saw some struggling. reporter: dr. robert khan of baltimore said everything happened so fast on the northwest flight from amsterdam, he sat six rows in front of abdulmutallab who is charged with trying to destroy an airliner using an explosive hidden in his underwear. president obama said on tuesday, the intelligence community had bits of information that should have triggered red flags and possibly prevented the attempted terror attack. the time is 5:05. time for a living $mart report. our first one of the morning. digital correspondent jessica doyle is here with a look ahead on wall street. i will tell you the six-day rally came to an end on wall street yesterday. but we have high hopes. we will have to see if investors will buy again. trading was light yesterday with the dow down a point and a half. it stands at 10545. the nasdaq lost nearly three points and the s&p 500 fell by 1.5. outback steak house is settling a discrimination suit. it will pay $19 million to female workers and hire. the ee cbs c filed a lawsuit against outback in 2006. it claimed that female workers were denied favorable positions. outback didn t acknowledge wrongdoing in the case. the battle of two cell phone giants. nokia is taking its legal case against apple to a higher level. it says almost all of the companies other products violate nokia s patents and they want apple to write a big royalty check. apple says it hasn t done anything wrong. getting ugly. what is coming up. money saving tip of the day. we are looking at tax moves you can make right now to reduce your tax bill come april 15th. looking forward to it. there s some good news for your commute if you use champlain streets in adams morgan. it reopened. city officials celebrated the occasion during a ceremony on tuesday which marked the end of the road construction project in that area. another construction project is taking shape. the district started what it calls the largest bridge construction project in its history. the city is building three bridges to replace the two that span the anacostia river and 11th street including the separation of local and freeway traffic. the $300 million price they are opposite of what they should be and you have a lot of local and interstate traffic trying to mix it up. the price tag is the large nest their history. new trouble for a man who just won a five-year custody battle. that story is coming up. tylenol expands a recall on a popular product that s been making people sick. some of san francisco s most popular residents have suddenly vanished. ved the lectures, and we took the tests and we told the jokes. but now i must look at the empty desk with an empty heart, unable to rest. while all the other kids laugh and play, i ll only remember that one day, when my best friend jeff was taken away. i love you, jeff. the time is 5:09 in the morning. 24 degrees. we are flying other the dulles toll road, eastbound past the airport. 7100 to route 7. looking good. angie, back to you. in the news now, one firefighter is dead and nine others injured after an explosion in saint anna, wisconsin. fire crews were checking out a dumpster fire outside of a manufacturing plant when it exploded. at least one of the firefighters is in critical condition. david goldman may have his son sean back at his home in new jersey for the first time in more than five years but the international custody battle may not be over. the 9-year-old s relatives in brazil are threatening more legal action. brazilian courts granted custody to goldman more than a year after his ex-wife s death. 2,000 san francisco residents have disappeared and no one seems to know why. the sea lions have left pier 39 where they hung out the last 20 years. a few weeks ago there were 1900 sea lions. some believe the cancellation of the herring season may have wiped out the supply. a drug taken by millions of americans may not protect patients from cancer. that story coming up. plus, snow is falling out west, but is it heading our way? oh, no. the dreaded is it headed our way question already? i will talk about our chances of wintry precipitation tomorrow and our temperatures are dropping. i will tell you how cold we are. it is 5:11. you are watching 9 news now. we ll be right back. heavy wet snow fell on the northwest last night. while it looks picturesque falling if downtown portland, oregon it accumulated quickly on the roads causing problems for the rush hour. it s a story we know all too well here and we re glad it is not here anymore and we don t want anymore. tomorrow morning could be a little tricky. a few places might be dicey if not icy. i don t think it will be so much snow early in the morning but whatever we get will change over to run rain during your new year s eve day plans. here s a look around. the temperatures have dropped like a rock. i know this sounds strange but believe it or not on noon windy nights we lose temperatures faster than windy nights. windy nights mix warm air that escaped from the surface and we don t have the windy air to do that and our temperatures can drop and they have. these are not wind chills. frederick 19. 17 martinsburg. inside the beltway in the middle 20s. 22 andrews air force base and quantico 21. the satellite-radar loop shows high clouds over us and these will lower and thicken throughout the day. the winds are giving us a break from the west-northwest at three. remember yesterday? we had a 30 as our wind speed and even with this little wind speed it feels like 20 instead of 24 outside. that s a bone dry dew point instead of nine. not a lot of moisture in the air this morning and the dry air can really cool off. here s the day planner. 25 at 9:00. 36 at noon. and by 5:00 our clouds will be thickening up but dry. temperatures up around 38 and it could feel like 38 without a raging wind chill. all eyes on the next system. let s take a weather flight and look at the gulf coast region. texas, louisiana, this is rain. it s interesting. our next storm is actually going to come by us in different fragments. all of the pieces of the puzzle come together over new england. if that were to happen here, we would be talking major storm like last week. but still one of those pieces will be on top of us tomorrow morning with some cold air trapped at the surface and that s why we have to talk about icing. first things first. today partly sunny and 39. the wind direction will be more southwesterly and light compared to yesterday. tomorrow morning, this is where we will have some icing problems, sleet or freezing rain. pretty much across northern virginia in to western maryland and over the district. 31 when you wake up. this low comes up the coast and it s going to bring warmer air up to 40s with rain in the afternoon. to the north in new york state and central pennsylvania you will get snow out of this. tomorrow night, new year s eve, we will probably have snow mix in with rain. we re not looking at accumulations but the roads will be wet and many times that happens and it gets problematic around here. on friday, leftover rain or snow showers. 38. the next weather headlines will be those really gusty winds again on saturday. look at saturday an sunday s high temperatures. trapped just above the freezing mark. let s see if patranya bhoolsuwan has good news for your wednesday drive. good morning. well, the weather is not too bad this morning and so is the traffic. moving well here. we have a disabled vehicle at route 50 inner loop at in virginia as you head out in 95. you will none to that blocking the right lane. after that it is clear to 66. jump on 66. moving good from centreville to the beltway. no problems there. looks like more cars out there this wednesday morning already. in maryland, check out 270. not seeing any incidents or accidents from germantown to gaithersburg to rockville. that s the good news. as we head to the district this morning, a work day for you, no problems between the times building and the third street tunnel. all lanes are open. no problems out there. back to you. this morning, new information and a health alert about an expand recall of tylenol arthritis pain caplets. the bottles have a distinctive red cap. tylenol s makers are recalling the bottles after people got nauseous and vomited because of a moldy mildew-like odor. was used by a chemical used to treat wooden pallets used to transport the medicine. there have been no adverse affects. stattens will not cut your chances of developing colon cancer. it is a finding from a study that says regular use of lost roll lowering drugs offer no significant reduction in the risk of the disease. previous studies suggested they could block cancer cell production but clinical trials have failed to confirm those findings. new evidence supports what many believe, serving in iraq and afghanistan can boost the risk of depression among members of the u.s. armed forces. researchers surveyed 40,000 members of the military and found those who went to war had the most new cases of depression, 6% for men and 16% for women. winter is primetime for itchy skin and conditions like psoriasis and eczema often get worse. new information that the itchiness takes a toll. a study found that people with chronic itchy skin suffered more stress and anxiety. they say it is important to get skin cans like eczema addressed because they can have a major impact on quality of life. a dc native goes on a scoring run against his home team. and despite only four wins, a rookie gets some big honors. details coming up in sports. you are watching 9 news now. let s see who s celebrating a birthday today in sports the wizards try for a win in the last game of 2009. antawn jamison and friends hosted the thunder at verizon center. and jamison was bringing the heat. his three at the end of the third took washington up five. jamison had 28 points in total. arenas tried to keep the home team in the lead but durant dropped 35 on the wizards. oklahoma cities. it is the wizards third straight loss. after the game, arenas acknowledged that dc police are investigating the report of weapons found inside of the wizard s locker room. he had unloaded guns in a container. investigators want to know where he got she firearms. now we head west to morgantown with marquette threatening west virginia. down one point with no time out. the mountaineers to butler goes the length of the floor and nails the game-winning shot. west virginia stays unbeaten. while many redskins fans said good riddens to vinny cerrato he actually did draft orakpo and he has shined in his rookie year and now he s the first redskins defensive rookie to go to the pro bowl in 40 years. he leads all rookies with 11 sacks but said he would give up his spot to fletcher who s been snubbed again. i feel great when i got here but fletcher has done so much for me. i d trade slots with him anymore. he deserves it as much as me if not more. i would trade him spots any day for what he brings to the table and the team. bret favre earned his 11th selection to the team. and vernon davis gets his first pro bowl nod and the ravens will send ray lewis and ed reed. the second annual nickel bank bowl took place last night with ucla taking on temple. in the second quarter, matt round scores to put them up 21- but the bruins fight back. picks off the pass and takes it in himself. ucla spoils temple s first trip to a bull in 30 years. the score 30-21. find how to take a big deduction a year ahead in the next living smart segment. and what authorities found inside of an area home. and one expert who worked at a local airport said he needed to go beyond screening devices when it comes to screening potential terrorists. we are watching something happening at arlington, route 110 just before memorial bridge. wood beams pill spilled all over the roadway. cleanup crews are on the way. watch for that if you are heading that way. we ll be right back. the winds dropped off overnight after causing some damage yesterday in northwest washington. gusts downed tree limbs, sometimes also taking out power lines. other falling branches, cracks and wind chills were reported, too. welcome back. i m angie goff filling in for andrea roane. we will check in with patranya bhoolsuwan in a moment to check on the traffic but, first, the winds were fierce. they are now done and all eyes on the new year s eve stuff and the weather may have a role. an uninvited guest in your plans. yous you wake up let s get moving. we are facing cold weather. it is 24 when you step off the metro but 18 gaithersburg and frederick. martinsburg 17. good morning, southern maryland, how are you doing, 26, fredericksburg 25. we will have filtered sunshine and then those clouds will lower and thicken tonight. we don t haven t to worry about rain or snow today. it the calm before the storm. we will work on highs of 38 that feel like 38. don t have to worry about wind gusts taking away the christmas wreath. wreath. let s check in with patranya bhoolsuwan. good morning. we have an incident out in arlington. wood beams all over the roadways. this is northbound route 110 just before the memorial bridge. cleanup crews are there and hope to get it out of the way shortly. in virginia, check out 395 northbound. little volume here at duke but no major problems to the district. as we come up on 95, early risers heading northbound. no problems from dale city to 495. no major issues here. good morning, maryland. the outer loop. good news for you. 95 to georgia is looking good all the way to 270. back to you. thank you. president obama says we must must act quickly because lives are at stake. the president stalked about talked about a flaw in the security system after the attempted bombing of a northwest airlines flight. when our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared, and acted upon as it should have been, so that this extremist boards a plane with dangerous explosives that could have cost nearly 300 lives a systemic failure has occurred. reporter: president obama said he has ordered reviews, which he hopes will reveal why there weren t any red flags when abdulmutallab boarded a plane. one man who works at dulles airport and used to be a security director at tel aviv airport and he is an expert at human behavior pattern recognition. he says airport personnel should pay more attention to how passengers are acting. they are highly stressed. most of these people including the latest terrorist are people with very little experience. they have relatively poor training and preparation. reporter: he trains workers at few airports but believes behavior recognition training should be required at all airports. the national parks service is revealing the gland plan to overhaul the national mall. it s been in the works for years but this morning it is a step closer to becoming reality. alex trevino is live from the location, or close to it, at least, with more. hey, alex. reporter: hey, angie. part of the criticism is it is hard to move around the national mall and hundreds of millions of dollars in overdue maintenance is needed. the national parks service is looking at three options, most of the alternatives feature an all-purpose facility near the grounds and they include a redesigned union square, rehabilitated grounds, paveed gravel paths and more accessible bathrooms and restaurants. and one includes removing or this rinking the pool to make room for demonstrations. another idea that is not yet concrete features a 14 street tunnel for motorists. the national parks service collected 30,000 comments. many have been rejected. still the park service is collecting more takes on the plan. reporting live from washington, alex trevino, 9 news now and wusa9.com. this morning, they plan to issue a proposal to restore the waterway. the environmental agency says there will be consequences if the district, maryland and virginia do not meet the agency s restoration goals. epa officials say once the agency begins to issue plans, milestones or permits they will have 120 days to comply. but mid-atlantic administrator says he expects the goals will be met. complaints about a foul odor let fairfax county authorities to a home in mount vernon last night. inside the house, crews discovered they needed masks and protective suits in order to he move dozens of animals, including many dead ones. 40 cats, birds and dogs were found alive. some need veterinary care. the owner, 33-year-old megan barber faces animal cruelty charges. the home is declared uninhabitable. reporter: a virginia woman has apparently disappeared. lisa miller of winchester has not been heard from and is believed to have her 7-year-old daughter isabella. a judge in vermont ordered her to transfer custody to the girl on friday to her expartner janet jenkins. that s where the women had a civil union in 2000. miller gave birth to isabella in twoo 2002 after undergoing artificial insemination. the couple broke up a year later. time for another living $mart report. jessica doyle is back with a look at something we all care about, our paychecks. who doesn t want to make more money, right? i want to. we have good news for folks. our paychecks maybe fattener the new year. mercer finds 54% of companies are planning to lift the salary freeze next year, if they had one in the first place and 35% of employers that reduced or cut 401-k matching contributions are expected to restore them. still, most companies are looking at a s.a.t. salary increase of no more than 3%. that is pretty much the same as this year. across the country, many arrow company trucking drivers are picking up their messages through qualcomm units. they left 900 truckers strand on hauls on the road. they have filed lawsuits and hope it will be classified as a class action. today another tax move that could save you money on april 15th. if you pay your own real estate taxes make any payments due in 2010 by tomorrow. by paying before the end of 2009 you can get the deduction a year earlier but they aren t allowed under the alternative minimum tax. so if you think you are going to be hit by amt, don t prepay. for more, check out my blog on the financialista.com. and i love to be your friend often facebook. parking in the district is already a pain for many drivers but it is going to get worse next month when dc plans to raise rates to $2 per hour. you are going to have to use the meters until 10:30 at night downtown and on saturdays as well. the red cross helped dozens of local fire victims find a warm place to stay overnight. that story coming up. plus, a machine that would be on toll roads near you. an alert for drivers in arlington this morning. northbound 110, blocking all lanes out there. cleanup crews are trying to clean it up. we will have an update coming up. chilly 24 degrees outside. we ll be right back. welcome back, everyone. pretty dark outside. a live look at fox hall road and canal in georgetown. no major issues to report here in the district. if you are going to work, make sure you buckle up and stay safe out there. angie, back to you. in the news now an investigation is underway in to what caused an apartment fire in oxon hill, maryland. more than 100 firefighters battled the flames in the 14200 block of georgia avenue. while fire damaged three of the buildings, fire was cut off to all of the buildings. bush fires destroyed 20 homes and injured three people. crews are surveying the burned areas to see if there are more injuries or possibilities of death to the residents in australia. those affected are being holed up in emergency shelters. the first automated toll plazas are open in leavenworth, kansas. the parade of entertainment award shows is just getting started. a preview of when you will be able to see it coming up. plus, a violent incident raises question about safety at area hospitals. kim has the forecast. i m checking high clouds across the area. they are whispering a telltale of the next weather maker. all the weather scoop is up next. you are watching 9 news now. good morning. have you gotten your seasonal flu vaccination? great - but your work s not done yet. we still need to get the h1n1 flu vaccination. you, me we should all get one. the vaccine is safe and proven effective against this highly contagious new strain of flu virus. we can help prevent the spread of this virus if we all just roll up our sleeves. to learn more about the h1n1 flu vaccination visit h1n1get1.com or call your local health department it s up to you to fight the flu. ( music throughout ) hey bets, can i borrow a quarter? sure, still not dry? i m trying to shrink them. i lost weight and now some clothes are too big. how did you do it? simple stuff. eating right and i switched to whole grain. whole grain. studies show that people who eat more whole grain tend to have a healthier body weight. multigrain cheerios has five whole grains. and 110 calories per lightly sweetened serving. more grains. less you. multigrain cheerios. master sergeant crystal smith in southwest asia. sending this message to george sean carter and iris carter in allentown, virginia. i want to wish you a blessed and memorable holiday season. i m proud of you, sean. keep pressing on, babe. security at local emergency rooms is in question after a man fires a flair gun inside of a maryland hospital. digital correspondent kristin fisher has more from prince georges hospital center in cheverly. reporter: 39-year-old evan gerald graham walked in the emergency room on saturday night. but when he became disorderly with staff, he was asked to leave by a security guard. pulled out a flare gun and pointed it at the security guard. after that he fired two shots in to the air, struck the ceiling of the hospital. reporter: fortunately no one here was injured in the incident but that s not always the case. health care workers are twice as likely as those in other fields to be injured in a violent act at work and the emergency room is by far the most dangerous place. 20% of emergency departments report that gun organization knives are brought in to the er on a daily or weekly basis and less than half screen or have metal detectors. the emergency nurses association is lobbying for stricter standards. they argue emergency departments should have trained and equiped security personnel to provide adequate and appropriate barriers against acts of violence. as for graham, he s currently behind bars at the prince georges county department of corrections. he s been charged with first- degree assault with a hand gun, handgun possession and second- degree assault. reporter: in prince georges county, kristin fisher, 9 news now and wusa9.com. prince georges hospital center declined to comment on the incident, but police say there was a security guard in the emergency room when the shooting took place. all right. turning our head toward the weather. what can we expect on this wednesday, the middle of the week. what do you want? i want sunshine, i don t know. we have some sunshine and don t have winds. that is a good thing. it is not saturday yet. by the time it is saturday we will have gusty winds again. wouldn t you know it. here s what we are facing heading outside. it is chilly 24 here. 19 baltimore. cumberland, downtown on baltimore street you have 14. it is 19 manassas. 22 andrews air force base. here s the satellite loop. these are high clouds made of ice crystals streaming by. the high clouds get here first because they are higher up or the winds are faster and they usually give us a heads up about our weather and what s next. when you see high clouds you have to say there is probably going to be a storm in the next 24 to 36 hours and wouldn t you know it that s what we have plotted on the three-day map. the first icon. the stuff here is icing. sleet or freezing rain will be possible tomorrow morning on your commute. should be changing over to run rain during the day as we reach for 42 and there you go, new year s eve maybe a rain/snow mix with 38 on friday, new year s day. this is how we are shaping up with the weather. we will fly down to the gulf coast and take a look at louisiana. eastern texas, the piney woods, getting rain. this is one fragment of our storm. and there will be a couple more fragments that all cruise by our area in the next 36 to 48 hours. they are going to congeal over new england and up there it is going to be a monster storm, but since we will be getting these in pieces we don t have a mother load of anything hitting us and i m sure that will make you feel better. today a high of 39. no wind gusts of 30 miles an hour. so it will feel like 39 and increasing clouds and limited sunshine this morning that gets filtered out. trouble spot is tomorrow morning during the commute. probably some icing and freezing rain. southern virginia will have rain. we will be around 31. as the day wears on, we will have warmer air sneak in, getting us close to 40. that changes everything over to rain. tomorrow night, cold air is wrapping down and could change things to snow and rain and we will see that on new year s day, snow and rain showers. here it is, seven-day forecast is up. in to the weekend, after we hurdle this event. the first weekend of the new year will be a windy weather weekend and a cold one with highs just above the freezing mark. that is my weather scoop. patranya bhoolsuwan, what s the latest on our drive? it is cold out there so watch out for the ramps, bridges and overpasses. they will be slick. another thing to watch for in arlington, wood beams are blocking route 110. crews will trying to get it off the roadway. watch for that if you are heading in that direction. check out 66 eastbound. no problems to report out of centreville past 123. 123 to the beltway no incidents or accidents there. as we jump on the inner loop, 95 to 66, seeing clean and green cars and everyone is at speed. fantastic ride for people out here. more traffic is picking up 95 to georgia but no big problems all the way to 270. head out to 95 and the bw parkway. all clear as well but watch for those roads and watch your speed and other drivers, as well. angie, back to you. pa favorite 9 news now celebrity guest celebrates an addition to his family. that story is coming up. and the nation bestows top honor on a legend. a maryland lawmaker wants to stop a homeowners association from banning clotheslines. the cost of removing snow topped $40 million and they are still counting. tens of thousands of area children have new things to play with this week, all thanks to toys for tots. read more in the examiner. even people who are watching their weight often shop without really looking. wait. 310 calories? 340? 8 grams of fat? compare that to select harvest light soups. wow. 80 calories. 60 calories and no fat. with the first two light soups ever that are 100% natural. you get lots of satisfaction without lots of calories. select harvest light soups. from campbell s. oh my goff it is the end of the year and the lists are out. there were many memorable moments in 2009 but according to reuters, michael jackson s death was among the headliners. the word the worldwide appeal of the king of pop and pushed him over the top. the kick off of the awards season, people s choice awards. this year s host is queen latifah. sandra bullock, l.l. cool j and the list goes on for those expected to attend. dancing with the stars champ and friend of 9 9 news now helio gives usagers glimpse of his baby on twitter. he posted thisic churr of himself. and his new daughter and mom. last call to meet the cast of the real world dc tonight. the mtv reality show teamed up with metro mix for the premier of the real world dc. meet them tonight at black fin at 1620 i street northwest. space is limited. to rsvp, go to wusa9.com. nehemiah clark took time to chat it up with our army reporter. his thoughts on the dc version. the houses are amazing. i would love to see what they have in dc. anything on the east coast i m a big fan of. dc should be a good season. reporter: thank you for that report. in other reports, we see that football fans and patty were supporting toys for tots at the redskins game this month. she wasn t thrilled with the final score but donating a few toys to the organization made her happy. and we want to say thank you to those who donated to toy drive 9 this year. it was an amazing success. go to oh my goff.tv and click on angie s army and spend me pictures, videos and events to share on the air. we want to know what is going on in your town. hit up my 9 news now blog. a select few of the nation s artists received the kennedy honors. the celebration of their lifetime achievements aired here. tara mergener has more on the star-studded event. reporter: welcome to the kennedy center honors, a tribute to five extraordinary honorees [ applause ] bruce springsteen, robert de niro, david brubeck get the highest honor for transforming the arts. are you talk atlantic me? the 66-year-old is credited with being one of the greatest actors of his time. feels great and almost like the equivalent of being knighted or something. he is so important to so many actors. he s the gold standard [ music ] reporter: a surprise list of performers made the night sparkle. a special jazz performance included david brew best beck s son was the highlight of the 9- year-old s birthday. i have had wonderful things happen, but i think this is the high point. reporter: the tribute to mel brooks kicked off by carl reiner who called his colleague. a genius brain and brilliantly unsensorrable tongue. a great drummer, but comedy paid more. so here i am. reporter: the trip down memory lane featured scenes from memorable works like the producers. [ music ] the obamas presided over the gala for the first time, showing enthusiasm from the upper balcony. when the honors started in 1978 they would barely fill the house and the tickets were free. today it is one of the hottest tickets in town. especially with a-listers like aretha franklin. a voice that was a gift from god [ music ] today is an affirmation for all that i was striving for. & born in the usa [ music ] the grand finale was devoted to the boss [ music ] it is fantastic. i will never forget it. reporter: springsteen never dreamed he d come this far. i wanted to play rhythm, initially in a local bands and hoped that may work out for me, but, you know, you don t quite figure out, going to end up in this spot, you know. reporter: from the kennedy center, i m tara mergener. great show that was. i saw him in charlottesville and he puts on a heck of a show. president obama said i might be the president but he s the boss. you are the boss of the weather this morning. oh, man, am i. good news first, the winds are done. check. baddish news, it is really cold outside and eh news we will probably have some icing tomorrow morning. 24 is where we are at. hagertown, hi there, gary, in hagerstown, sorry i had to hang up so fast. i had to do the weather. some high clouds moving in. don t have rain or snow attached but will be filtering the sunshine and especially by 5:00. without gusty winds it will feel like 38 and we will be talking about tomorrow s smooth and the new eeriest eve, new year s day plans with respect to the