>> we will begin this saturday news extra with the race to the white house. we moved to missouri with puerto

rico and illinois next airline. >> mitt romney started the day in puerto rico where he hopes to get most if not all of the 23 delegates. >> i am optimistic. >> instead of spending more time on the island, he headed back to the mainland. his main concern this week is the illinois primary this tuesday where he is reportedly ahead of rick santorum. >> if we want to beat barack obama, we have to nominate someone who is not an economic lightweight. >> rick santorum already won a primary that did not award any delegates. after winning one caucus, the former senator let his exuberance get the best of him. >> all of the midwest is one car. we have won every state in the

midwest. >> but that is not true. santorum lost both michigan and ohio. once again, he found himself saying he did not really mean what he said earlier in the day. >> i am wondering about michigan and ohio. >> well, i mean, i meant the heartland. >> and new video by move on.org had women repeating words by rick santorum. >> accept what god has given you and make the best of a bad situation. >> virginia tech officials are reviewing their legal options after being found negligent in the 2007 mass shooting. a jury reached that verdict on wednesday in the wrongful death suit. parents claim the officials should have done more to alert students after the first two

shootings that morning. within the next two hours, the gunman killed another 30 students and faculty members. >> this whole thing once everything started coming out -- >> we are disappointed in the jury's verdict. we demonstrated beyond question that the crime was committed and the arsenal was unforeseen. >> the students' families were awarded $4 million apiece. but state law requires a cab but $100,000 per family. they plan to fight that restriction. here in the d.c. area some metro passengers are wondering why they have to keep digging deeper into their pockets to get on board. metro management is riding high. their report on salaries is sparking criticism. >> ask any passenger on

much. >> breakdowns, i have to switch trains. >> metro maintains it needs more money, a lot more money. they are asking for a 5% fare increase to cover costs. metro has no problem paying its top 16 executives millions. general and manager was paid $350,000 last year his deputy made two hundred $40,000 with a $30,000 per year housing allowance. mattress spent more than $3 million on the 16 executives -- metro spent more than $3 million on those 16 executive salaries. >> it is ridiculous. >> there want to know why metro management is making some much money to run a troubled system. >> it is not as reliable as the

system in new york. i am confused as to why that is or what we're paying for or why we have to pay more. >> some passengers say that running a complicated system is a big job and those interested with running it should make big bucks. >> i think they do deserve the money for the job they're doing. >> richard strauss is credited with running a wide transit system. >> still to come on saturday news that struck, d.c. ranked the highest in the nation when it comes to one particular type of cancer. the sentencesymptoms you need to pay attention to. one consumer product is being called liquid gold. >> temperatures right now are in the lower-60's.

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>> when having a bowel movement, i would vomit. >> she requested a colonoscopy. but her former doctors said that it was just pregnancy hormones. >> he said you are too young for colonoscopy. >> it continued after her son was born. it was so bad that she could barely eat or drink. her husband rushed her to an emergency room where doctors discovered tumors on her liver and pancreas. >> stage iv: cancer -- stage iv colon cancer at the age of 30. >> we do have more of it here than other parts of our country. >> he says it is part because it is more common among african- americans. >> it needs to be caught before it is cancer in the form of a

pol. >> african-americans should start screaming at the age 45. those with family history should start at age 40. >> she now works closely with a cancer foundation. >> we feel that it is such an important thing to give patients that go. >> i will prevail over this disease. >> according to the cdc, 72% of targeted women were screened for breast cancer in 2010. but only 54% of targeted americans were screened for colon cancer. >> still to come, it is a surprising new trend in crime that involves a commonly

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>> so tomorrow may be one of the coldest days of the week. >> it does not seem so bad considering that today's high was in the mid-50's. we will take you back to the new york city. the empire state building all in green. when was the last time it was all green? >> blast say that today? >> wrong, last monday for the girl scouts 100th anniversary. it will turn red white and blue for the fourth of july and for

election day. a pretty shocked. they have some fog they're dealing with up there. 75 degrees was the high at the reagan national airport. the average load is 38 degrees. it is still pretty cold around here this time of year. 61 degrees at this hour. the fog is just beginning to move in. it will be the worst to the east of us. 60 degrees at george washington university. 73 degrees for the high end takoma park. in manassas, 59 degrees with a high in the mid-70's. temperatures are a bit milder. when chester at 59 degrees. head off to ocean city with only 42 degrees at this hour appeared they had highs daily in the lower-50's.

70's in the mountains. temperatures are mild off to the west of us. lower-80's and chicago. there cooling down now to about 70 degrees. high-pressure off to the northeast and light southerly flow will diminish in the overnight and hours. the fog could limit visibility to the lower quarter of a mile. we already have a dense fog advisory for delaware. i expect this will disband as we go into tomorrow. but similar to what we had earlier this morning i expected to cancel out by 9:00 a.m. or 10:00 a.m. moving through the next 48 hours, noticed a few showers along western maryland. it will not amount to much for the day tomorrow. more clouds and a few showers for the day on monday. and we may even hear a few rumbles of thunder. dense fog is expected overnight.

daytime highs tomorrow hovering around the 70-degree mark. it will be one of the cooler days we will seat for the next seven days. back in the mid-7. as for the middle of the week. nighttime lows will be around 50 degrees. the 02 wjla.com -- go to wjla.com for the latest. >> it is a facebook fat that is alluring in young people across america. teen-agers are posting provocative pictures of themselves on the site to decide who is hot and who is not. >> hit is the most fierce beauty contest around but there is no talent required for this one. it is called the competition for the most beautiful teenager. many have posted their

photographs. >> it looks really cool. so i've hoped it appeared >> amy sent her most beautiful pictures to this on sourced website. whoever runs it remains a mystery. they've posted to a facebook page for all the world to see. many of the photographs show boys with their shirts off and girls with their bikinis on. it is not just suggested photostat created an uproar. it is also the mean and nasty comments posted by ruthless facebook judges. >> she read them to me, several of them. i could not handle hearing them because it just made me very angry. >> it sparked such outraged that facebook shut it down overnight. it violated their statement of rights and responsibilities and

that "we do not tolerate bullying and take action on content reported to us that we categorize as such." >> i think it is a good thing that they took it down. >> disturbing to parents? yes. but our web sites like this the new way that the new generation measure's popularity? >> it makes curls feel even more self-conscious not just in real life, but every step they take online. >> whether the most beautiful teenage paid was meant to be lewd, we will never know. >> it is an absolute pulled four people that like this sort of thing for the absolute wrong reason. >> while this website is shut down, there are many others just like it online. young people continue to pose their sexiest snapshots. >> still to come, saturday extra

-- it has become a familiar scene. thousands of dollars of tied

>> police across the country are looking for thieves who are trying to clean up by stealing detergent. they want one brand of particular. tide. it is not because they want clean clothes or like the large containers. it is apparently also a hot commodity on the black market.

>> you are watching a tidal wave of crime, making a clean sweep that chris restores nationwide. the bad guys grab a cart full of liquid tide laundry detergent. this guy came day after day and left with cart after cart. >> they will not to just one store today. there will be four, five, six stores today. >> they stroll out with dozens of bottles. wiping out thousands of dollars of product. >> it is a staple item. everybody needs it. it is the most popular brand going. so they can move it easy. >> it is the modern-day liquid gold, largely untraceable and always in demand. it is increasingly used instead of cash to finance drug habits. they then turn around and cleanup by selling it on the black market. >> i am shocked.

i noticed that the shells did not have tide on it. >> i find that strange. very strange. >> that safeway was hit time and again, losing thousands of dollars a month to this crime wave. here, one bandit tussles with an employee who tries to stop him. >> as this every day somebody going out and stealing a bunch of tide? >> yes. >> what do they have against extra? prince george's county did a huge bust. turn left. the passat is one of nine volkswagen models named a 2012 iihs top safety pick. not...that... we'd ever brag about it... turn right. come on, nine. turn left. hit the brakes. huh? how did that get there?