what miss in the sn we more than made up for with howling winds and bitter stuff out there. hello, everybody. >>yesterday's massive snowstorm bypassed r area for the most part but most of the eastoast is dig the outfrom snow. it was the fifthiggest storm on record in new york city. more than 14 flights were canceled. jfk and new yk airports remain close currently butlaguardia is expected to reopen at any moment. travel experts say it could be several days before t thousands of stranded passengers get to their destination. >> the snow appeared to be to much to handle r philly whre even a plow truck got stuck. more than a foot of snow was reported at philadelphia inteational airport by mid morning today. in new jersey, there were near whiteout conditions on the atlantic city boardwalk and authorities there i that state said sunday evening, they had more than125 accidents on the

roadways. >>he storm also broug the first whe christmasand d after to north and south carolina in decades. in fact, some cities in south carona saw their first significant cistmas snowfall nce weather records began back in the1880s. plows were out in full force all weend long trying to keep e roadways ear. most drers appear to be taking it easy and sying inside. >> allhat snow affected local flights that were supped to take off fm airports in our region. people trng to fly out had choice but to waitut the delays. kimberlyspent the morning at reagan national where some stranded paengers spent the night. reporter: in between mounds of strandedassengers -- were you worried the snow would cancel your floridaacation? a couple sharing a 4:00 a.m. breakst with a viewf the very plane thatshould have taken them ho sunday. >> about 50 feet from our plane

an it would be nice if we uld take off nowso we could get in. >> reporter: after spending the night in chairs without luggage, the newlyweds on the wayfrom aruba to phillyere told they would have an 8:00 deparre. >> we'll have sties to tell. we got to experience everythin 80-degree weather this morning, got to experience a blizzard, sleeping in an airport. can't get any betterthan. that >> reporter: it apparently helps your mood to bemarried recently, as it was case with the cheerful richardson family. >> i can't wait to get back. >> report: they searched all dayto find a flight. 30% were canceled or delayed. the gw women's basketball team on the way to ami had to fly down one player at a te. >> we were pposed to playhe you'd at 5:00. >> 5:00, 5:30. then we were splitp. >> reporter: but the southund departures fared better. not so for those headed nor.

ter the third rebooking they have one more delay aad of them. >> these are tickets for tomorrow and we' supposed to be leing, i believ it is 1:48 tomorow afternoon. hopefully flight will take off. we'll se >> reporter: we don' know how the stingers missed out but we checked the board and now there are three scheduled flights to philadelphia. first time we've seen that all day. news4. >> as for the rails, amtrak trains are running again between new york and boston but there e still a number of dels. officials with the train system say those delays are impacting travel between here and washington and new york. as a sult, amtrak canceled. several trainsbetween washington and the big apple. the trai traveling to and from washington wi be making more stops to accommodate riders. amtrak says passengers should ca 1-800 usa rail or visit amtrak.om for the latest

uptes. the snow might haveissed us but the bitter cold hasn't. this storm brought strong wind to our area and it causi a lot of probms. the wind is being blamed for knking down lots of utili sxoe poles and knocking out powerf 2,400 customers are without power. most are in the district. and there are about 1,200 outas. dominion has more than 700 peop in the darkn northern virginia. if you've been outside lately, you ow how bluery it is. our camera have been moving around. the d.c. area is under a win advisory right now. doug kammerer is here. he has an update and what we can expect the rest of the day. >> the major portion of the storm is out of here. that means the windsill die down. we just saw wind gusts at 4 miles an hour. a very windy day for sure.

the snow is ending across the rtheast. plenty of sunshine but it is not helping at all with the temperatures. winds will be the fkt. look at the snow accumulation across the area. less than an inch fromi-95 to the west. to the east, one to three. down toward frederickurg, toward annapolis, thr to six inche into portions of the eastern shore. some areas six to 12 like salisbury and toward dover and then right along thecoast. ean city, maryland, cong in with over 13 inches and ples into centr and southern new jersey, well over one to two feet. soe areas, even 2 1/2 feet of snow. that's just how much ow tell about this sytem. what are we daling with now? at wind advisory is extended through9:00 for everybody across the regi. the winds cld be gusting upwards of 30, 40, even 50 miles an hour. lookt this. 47-mile-an-hour wind gusts here. look at winchester. 52 miles an hour. 26 in ederick.

41 miles an hour in batimore. and 30 down toward quantico. so withtemperatures in the 30s and with winds in the 30s, we' dealing with some pretty hefty windchills. windchls in the teens in most locations. that's what you can expect tonight going t 30 degrees by 9:00. 11:00, 2 degrees. a very cold night ahead. there are some huge changes coming up in the weathe pattern. i'll show that you in my ful forecast. >> thank you. meanwhe, a dangerous combination leads the a deadly situation for a woman in a dupont circle apartment building. it was about 11:00last night when a fire broke out in a seco floor apartment in the 1700 block of "s" street. the fire was started by imoperly extinguished smoki material. they say thewere unable to rescue her inside because of what they called a quote extreme clutter. hoarding situation.

the vict has not yet be intified. police are sti investigatingto find out wh caused crash that killed a father and son yesrday morning. it happened on the southbound altimore parkway in laurel betwe routes 197 and 198. the crash happened around 1:00 sund morning. police stay victims, 67-year-old jay row and young row are from herndon, virginia. they stay vehicle los control, crossed the median and struck two vehicles. >> today family and friends honor a student murdered six months ago today. dozensof people gathed here to dedicate a bench in vassa pham's honor. she was home from college last ju when she was found stabbed to death in her car along route 50. her killer is still on the loose. eght americans on tour of egypt's ancient temples were killed when their vehicle slammed into a rked truck.

this happened on sunday. 20 other tourists, their egyptian bus driver and guide were killed. the roads there are known to be dangerous >> reporter: those roads through the desert c be deadly. they're long, narrow, people drivey too fast and trucks often park with oneset of wheels so they won't get stuck on the sand. the bus dwrif the american tourists must have seen the parked truck way too late. he deswiped it, tore off e entire right-hanside of the bus. almost all the passengers sitting on that sde of the bus were killed or injured. >> i can remember hearin just the noise of e tires on the road. likthe big bang and getting shot with glass. then the b spinning around. so i tookmy eye shades off and i could see the side of t bus wasgone. >> reporter: there were two othe buses following t 116

american tourists in all. those two bues behind the first onekidded to a halt. everybody in those buses re okay. this is a very busy tourist road, too. the rad link twos grea sites. they have beautifulery important ancient temples. this is the third such crash with foreign tourists in three months. a total of 22 foreign tourists killed sinceoctober. the director of egypt's tourism ministry saidhe didn't think this wou have any effect o tourism. ofcials have not relsed the names of the six women an two men who were kill in this accident in egypt. u had to really grip that wheel out there. cars are blowingll over the place. >> what's going on out there now? >> reporter: fortunately the wind is the biggest problem. i say fortunately bcause we don't have majo delays to report and we don't ha a major accident. we have lot of company if you're traveling toward the tyson's area. not sockingly along 7 and 123,

no big issues on thebeltway. this is towa university boulevard. you're in great shape. along 95, a little different stoy. no big problem thrgh springfield into wood bridge. down toward potomac mills, you're on the brakes and that will kick off he delays tat stretch the better portion of the trip toward fredericksburg. 95 northbound w hded toward the outlets. you travel out of the virginia area, no problems along both 66 and 395 in theelt ways. pretty good shape as you mak your way headedoward maryland. >> thanks so much. when news4t 4:00 conties, the new tool the faa issing that they saywill make e skies safer. > now post christmas shopping is really paying off for consumers. ar dealers arefinishing the year strong as well. what do these signs mean for the onomy as a whole? plus, for the first time in years the are some big advancein technology that are making these prin

> dvd sales may be down but it is cousin upscale cous blue ray sale have jumped 75%his year alone. alysts say it is because people wan a higher quality picture a they're willing to pay extra for it. aording to theresearch market group, 13%wn the blu-ray players and ikts expected to reach 20%y early 2011. from merry droims a lost weekend, the storm that slammed the north and southeast.

the storm hit pital retailers. and many are buried under a blanketof snow. >> reporter: it hs been a huge holiday sales season and retlers are looking to end 2010 in the black. he whiteout on the east coast n't helping but not even old man winter can stop aie hard shopper. >> ultimately, we think the blizzard won't have a tragic effect on the retail industry. if anying, itmight just displace some of the sales we would havsustain day after christs and move them lat into the week. >> reporter: bargain hunters are back. >> less than $100. >> reporter: and though ma may be goingback for refunds or exchange, storesre expecting to cash in on gift cards. >> i bought hi that for christmas. >> reporter: the biggest boom this year was onli where sales umped 15%. >> we've seen conspicuous

consumption come back. people are willing to light their houses and put more gifts under the trees. >> reporter: cars were back on the wish lt and so were pickup trucks which sent a hopeful message. >> the economy is starting to rever. small business isack engaged. there is a swens the consumer that it getting better. >> reporter: u.s. retailers ending the year with a bang an some serious bargains. officials estimates aren out until late last week. the naonal retail federation has already revised its holiday sales estimates upward. brian moore, nbc news, washington. now about 20% of people said they would shop theay after christmas. exper expect those peoe will still shop just a bit later in the week. it may cost less to catch a live concert. they say they plan to make shows more affordable. this after high conrt prices

kept fans away in 2010. concertgoers go expect to see cheaper tickets for seats, especially if u buy them early. promote lettersry to make up the lost revenue throh merchandise and t-shirt sales at the concerts. >> when we com back, much more ahead. staying rm became quit hazardous on theidelines of last night's ravens game, league one player i a smoking jacket. eight full glasses o water a day to deep doctor away? why thatdecades old advice may have bn a mistake.

it's not snow but leftover flood that is afecting people in california. inmatesrom jail arehelping to dig out cars and homes from thick mud. authories declared nine counties states ofemergency. it is no brainer. snow is a lot prettier to look

at, isn't it? that's the same storm tat came l the way across e country and affected l of us. >> wow! aot of folks in the for t and south calina had their first whit christmas. >> was in georgia,about an hour south of atlanta. first white christmasin 130 years. >> really! >> we re waitingor the changeover. so my kidsan see it. we made snow balls. >> oh, great! >> we didn't have nearly as much snow here as we did down there toward the atlanta area. atlanta picked up 1.3 inches. officially at the airport here, .4 inches. that won't break any records any ti soon. what migh though is the wds we're seeing today. those winds were howlg and they'll continue to ho into the day tomorrow. win blowing tose flags all across the area and of course, cross the potomac today live digital doppler radar. nothing to show you. the system thatrought snow through e area yesterday has moved well offto the for the and east and most of is it out

ofhe country, continuing to move into the canadia maritimes. wt are we seeing? we saw8 a little earlier. down to 36 degrees. dew point is six. very, very dry atmosphere. wichill, 23 degrees the wind, sustained last hour of 30 degrees. and the win have been gusting upwards of 40 to 50 miles an hour. currently4 degrees in ederick. culpepper around 39 degrees. here's the latest wind gusts. 45 miles an hour in martsburg. 36 nirz hagerstown. 41 in baltimore. thosewinds will contie. any time it is this cold, the wind just blows thugh you. that's why the tempatures have felt so cold. windchill in the teens and lower 20 the win, 30, 40, even 50 miles an hour. overnight, they will subsid a little bit. we're stil going to stay rather

windy and we'll be talking about windchills. in frederick, maryland. andrews air forcease windchills o 19. at the aport we're looking at 23 degrees in washingt. there's the storm system itself. very compact storm system. incredibly strong storm. you don't see these too often. then you say, wait a second. we saw three last year yes, we sure d. four blizzards, real potent blizzards that have ma their y through the noheast. this one dodd our area. windy and very cold. we will continue with the conditions during the day tomorrow. en we'll see things chang a little bit and it will be a change that i think everybody has been looking forward to. we have beenxtremely cold in the month of december. so far one of the coldest decembers in recent memory. at least in the last ten years. high pressure will move er the d tomorrow. into the day dnesday. as it does, the winds will subsid still cold but look to the west. mile air making its way from the gulf of mexico into the center portions of the country. and it will make its way he by

the end of t week, and into the early portions of e weeke. we have the warmest temperatures we've seen in just about a month. weave not seen 50 deees at all this month. the fir of the month w 65 egrees. after that, it was a downhill from there. clar skies this evening. very windy and very cold. way to 32 degrees. winds out of the northwest at 15 to 25. still seeing tose gustsupwards of 40iles an hour. tomorrow morning we'll e the temperatures, verycold. mostly clear skies. breezy and cold. the windchill near10 in most locations. 21 to 2 degrees. the win gusting upwardsave 30 miles an hour. in the mornng hours, maybe 30, 35 miles an hour by tomorrow. mostly sunny tomorrow but windchills still staying in the mid 20s. as we move through e next four days, hers the good nes. very cold tomorrow. still cold o wednesday. look at thursday. a high of 44. partly cloudy skies. not too d. but then nice onfriday. you are pressed when you call47 degrees nice.

but cmpared to whatwe've had, it will beery nice. whnot start the new year wit better tempatures? highs onsaturday, into the50s, maybe themid 50s. same deal on sunday. we will see a very go chance ofain overnight saturday into the day on sunday. so sunday looki a little bit rainy. of cours wouldn't you know it, it takes a new year to help war us up. this december, the end of this year has been tremendouslycold. >> wh a roll. >> i think veronica johnso and i were saying, women will be happy to hear they'll their fancy dresses and strappy sandals. >> for new years eve? most definitely. and jim and i will wear -- we don't have anything fansy. flip flops. >> go for it. >> thank you, doug. common knowledge, bsted again. the latest is the ght glses of water a day myth. that's the ount you're supposed to drink a day. a dartmouth physician went looking for where that old recommendation came from a is

coming up emty. he saidhe can't find any scientific evence to back it up. e possiblesource, 1945 suggestion from the national research council. it says this is t amount of water you should get. most of it in food. the theiry and no one noticed the in food pat. if it is in food, i am doingmy part. that's for sure. >> youaren't giving up your botled water. still to come on news4 at 4:00, the local restaurants that rely cash in on your new years y lazines us, much of the east cst has been btered by the northeast lizzard. where the northea stands now with the big digout. and hugh hefner does it

good afternoon. welcome back. i'm barbara harrison. eight american touris visiting eight egyptian temples were killed when their tour bus crashed into a truck early sunday. tha tour bus sideswiped the truck which was parked the side of a desert road. the six women and two men who died have not been identified yet. 20 other tourists and their tour driver were also injured.

a fire was caused by improperly discarded smoking materials. a woman dd in that fire in the 1700 block s" strt. firefighters say extre clutter inside the home hindered rescue fforts. >> it h been a successful holiday season for retaile. economists say merchants have had a very merry christmas wit retail sales toing last year. they say hopes arhigh for a post christmas surge. yesterdas snowstorm left our area untouched but there is a major impact on tct in our area. heavy winds, and amtraks reporting high volume at union staon. those delays continue to create mething of a holiday hangover for millions of peopl in the northeast. >> from philalphia up to new england, the big digout is still just beginning. the weather channel's mike has

more onhe east coast blizzard for massachusetts. >> reporter: the storm tat brght a rare white christmas to the south has tured into a winter headache for millions in the northeast. for people a airports, stuck in the snow or diggng out, it anything but fu >> it is horrible. >> reporter: blizzard condions socked the northeastith high wind and blowing snow. creating a near zero visibility on suay. >> this is a big digout >> reporte this is philadelphia whe the city's mayor is shovel ready and pihing in. ven plows wre no match for the heavy snow and slick roads. while airports, thousands of pasengers spent the night. >> this is a nightmare. i decided to makeit an adventure. that all do you know. >> reporter: laguara, and jfk were shut do and now expected to limp back into service ashe travel woes spread across the country. is was chicago's o'hare. >> i wa supposed to land at laguardia at 4:20 yesterdaynd

they caeled the flight they rebooked me on a flight for this moing which also got canceled. >> reporter: and atlanta's hartsfield. >> i'm rolled back to 3:40 flight. >> repoer: the blzard conditions knocked o electricity to tens of thousands, up d down the east coast where crews are now working the restore power. >> i used to like snow. i'm not sure i like it anymore. >> reporter: it wasn'tll misery. for cldren seeking shelter from t storm, the smiles tell their storie >> just a few residual snow flake here in e boston uburbs. as the sun go down, you notice the roadways are cle of snow and ice. a complete turnaround f this morning and after lunch time, just about everyby came out of their shell. at logan airport which was never officialy closed, flights are beginning to take off and land. airlines are expected to try to runs full a schedules possibleon tuesday.

for nbcnews, natick, maschusetts. and there wille a tuesday night football game. the eagles a the minnesota vikings were supposed to play there yesterday but the nfl postned the game in exctation of the big storm slamming philly. the decision was not popular. there were only about four inches of snow othe ground before the schedul kickoff. you can see the game tomorw night at 8:00 right here on nbc 4. a coroner has determined that a body found burned in the las vegas deser is not that of the former redskins cheerleader. debbie flores was last seen leaving her apartment in l vegas. faily members say she had jst met with her ex-boyfriend. will she was working as a show girlor the luxor hot on the vegas strip. the faais 200ing a

revolutionary system it says will overhaul the system. it is alreadybeing test asked m costello has the preview. >> reporr: it is o of the heaviest traveled traffic zones in the contry. carrying workersto and from the 3800 oil and gas rigs in the gulf of mexico. for decades, once t choppers flew 50 miles out to sea, they were out of radar range. now that's changi. the gulf of mico is among the first zones to use next gen air traffic control. instead of using ground based radar, controllers are starting to use satellites andgps transmitters to track air traffic. >> because we have tem in surveillance. we know where they are. and it cuts down on the communication aspect. >> reporter: houston and the

gulf of plek omexico as well as otrs. by 2020, every aircraft an airrt should be on next gen. >> ich means everyon ll have to broadcast via gps. broadcast that information to other airplanes and the ground stations so that everybody h that information >> reporter: the nation air traffic is curntly guided by 60-yr-old technology with plas flying over predetermined radar routes. next gen will meanliers can go point to point. and with gps accury, less separation between airaft. shorter flights, less fu, less pollution. >> a system that will basically revoluonize the system. it will give the pil the ability to see traffic around him. itwill improve his situational awareness. >> report: but it is slow going. while southwest airlines has already upgraded its cockpits,

most airlines complain without government help, they can't afford the millions it will cost to upgrade. t faa insists the fuel savings alone is worth it. >> you would recoup in it three years. >> reporter: e biggest change for the air traffic control system in 50 year and coming to an airort near you. nbc news, washington more news to come onnews4 at 4:00. the latest high-tech feet ors some of the electronics you're dying to uy. and we'll look at printers. which will ave some big advances. >> plus, it is time totart paying those stent loans for g

we'll be looking at some of the latest tenology on some of the tech toys you'll be buying wi those gift cards. st of us have come to expect only very basic tasks from our printers. that cou soon change thanks to new tenologies. with the help of the how-to website, monkey see.com, t technologyxpert shows us what's w. rr printing is somethi that's not uually thought of as exciting. itas been a very long me since wve seen any new features on printers at all. t now in the last couple months, we've seen some really incredible advancements. you now have the ability to e-mail documentsirectly to yo printer. this hm photo smart, you can mail a document to it. it has itsown e-mail address and it print it is wireless.

so you can print from your wireless phone or your tablet computer. and check this ou it has ability-in tablet right here giving you the ability to brows the intern. to be able to browse facebook, any piure that you scan into the printer automatically show up in the gallery here. it is truly incredible. and represents the next great leap in prinng technology. so if you've been out there checking out prters recently, look for some of these new features like being ae to print wirelessly, e-mailing your printer and even applications to why are printer itself. >> to see this again, to go our homeage and search printers. toorrow the latest video meras and the new features and price ranges you'll find o the. now that thebusiest shopping da of the year are behind us, get ready for the busiest foodday of the ar. new years day, according to the food deliver website. their data shows a 70% ike in

include they orders on the first day of the year compared to an average day. the top chces among foods number one, chines it is in first place, followed by pzza and then american fd, whatever that migt be. then healt food after that, followedby japanese which rounds out the t five. healthier foodsaw a bump on new years day. perhaps the first move in new ar's esolution. what do u think? hburgers? french fries? >> that would be goodn a lot of ways. >> what se? >> barbecue, ribs. coming up, a whole lot more ahead. ny recent college grads got an unwanted burden. a bill to pay their student loans. now there help for tho who still haven't found a job. plus,ow retailers help you make the mt of your next spending balan.

some ne college gruates are receiving a gift this holiday seon that is not a very welcome one. the six-monthrace period to start paying off those stude loans has ended for these graduatedn may of 2010.

>> some of those former students are faced with the challenge of making paymentshile struggling to find a job. dawn reports. >> reporter: 22-yearld sydney was all smileshen she graduated in may of 2010. a picture perfectoment for the graduate and her proud family and friends. six months later, reality is setting in. the grace periodor her college lns is up. >> overa, this number is so big. it is over $100,000. >> reporter: $101,00 her college loan pment, a whopping $1035 and change. d ow. >> i don't have $1,000 to pay a month. i don't have it. >> reporter: sheadmit she's scared. she is rking two jobs. sh has no car and has no health insuranceat the moment. sheaid she wants to p back her loans and did call her lender to see if she could lower

her monthly payments. >>hey told me different options but the optionsre like, who n afford that? and i know it is not just me. i ave so many friends who, we're all in the same boat. >> reporter: friends like 23-year-old christina who was set t graduate this cming may after six years at temple. she works two jobs t pay to go to school parttime. she just found out her llege loans are delinquent. she thought it was a big mistake. it wasn't. >> theyxplained because i'm less than halftime, i pretty much don't get a grace period and my payments started already myself fir payment was due december 4th. >> reporter: christina who ow 36,000 was able to get a one-year defermet. but she has to faye interest on her loan which is approximately $100,000 a month starng immediately. >> i'm barely getti by with my two jobs. with ition. so this is going t mean i'm going to have to pick up an extra shift and hopeflly be able to balance mychool work with working.

>> that was dawn timoney reportg. 2009 graduates cried an average of $24,000 in loans when they graduated. it may feel like shorts and t-shirt weather at the end of the week. >> 54 on new years day? that's a bigchange. condering that we saw one day above0 degrees so far this month, thawas the very fst day othe nth. remember that day was a downhill during e day and that's where we've been all month long. take a look. a pretty cool ot along the potomac. itot a little beaver hit right there. some of t geese enjing some of the parts of e river that arnot frozen at this time. as we look out across the regn, we're looking atome clouds but also,lenty of sunshine and clear ies. the sun making its w down and about the next five minutes or. so 36 degrees, the curnt

temperature. the windchill of 25 degrees. winds out of the northwest at 30 miles an ho. here the temperature. 30 in herstown. 33 in sterling. right now, salisbury at 33 degrees. the delrva saw so much more snow than wh we saw around our area. about half an ich arnd the d.c. area. that's it. some areas pick up over a foot of snow. look at the winds. shall is dealing with the nds no matter where you are. to the west, 45. 47 in washington, d.c. salisbury, wind gts of 35 miles an hour. that's why we have that wind advisory in if he can. the nds will die down. we're not talking 40 50 miles an hour. windy and very cold for the day tomorrow. high pressure will start move in. still gointo be cold. t the winds will gin to subside during the day on wednesday. and by thursday, w'll see high pressure fully entrenched. with that, mild conditions

moving back ito the gion. really for the first ti this month. it will a very warm weekend. clear skies, very wind very cold. 28 to 3 degrees for th evening. omorrow, wake up to a cd morning. breezy and cofield windchill near 10. winds out o the west at 10 to miles an hour. gusts upwards of 30miles an hour during the morng hours. probably throughout the afternoon as well. mostly sunny, windy and cofield windchills remaining in the s. just about all day long wth those winds gusting upwards of th 30-mile-an-hour range. maybe 35. wnesday, a high of 41 degrees. you can see we're starti to get better each da. a high of 44. 47. nice cditions on friy. probably the nicest day we have seen in about a month. that's how long it has been and i we'll get even warmer as we start o 2011. his in the 50s on saturday. another storm system moves in. that will brings a good chance for rain late satury night into the day on sunday. but right now,ew years day, r the most part,ooks dry.

at least early. if we're out at 12:00, 121, looking veryvery nice. >> we're sweaing just thinking about it. >> 50 degrees? whatre we going to do? >> thank you, coming up on news4, staying warmurned out to be a dangerous endeavour. yesterday's ravens game. amishap brings new meing to the term "smoking jacket." plus despite his vows nver to mattry again, hugh hefneis off the market once again. tonight, moren that winter storm that stranded travelers for a second day from pennsylvania up through n england. and we' tell y how the snow affting people's attempt to get he. a 1year-old in a hit and n. her parets are making a desperate plea to find the person bhind the wheel. and new poll shows president obama i the nation's most admired man. guess who is number two.

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few of e stores trying to ca. in we're not talking about with after christmas sales. leftover money your flexible spending account. me stores are using prominent signs and special web pages dedicated toeminding consumers how ey can spend their fsa dollars before they expire at the end of the year. erica edwards has more >> reporte check out the sports section. >> ereaders, ipads and these aren't the only ones. so are cold medicine. >> now would be t time touy bandag and band aids and adhesives and crutches, eyeglasses, contact lenses. reporter: anyone with a flexible spending account is well aware of the use it lose it rul meaning pretax dollars for medical expenses are out to eire at the end of the year. contributing to the run on medical supplies is the fact that over-the-counter ugs will not be an eligie expense without a prescription come january 1.

>> the over-the-counte medication, tyleno advil, bayer aspirin, thgs like that, which people used to be able to buy on a pretax basis, they will no longer be able to do so. >> rerter: on average, americs leave $85 in their accounts at t end of the year, losing thatmoney. to avoid the front loading the expenses i you can. >> if you know that you take certain prescriptio, potentiallyould you get a three or six-month supply as opposed to the typical one-month supply. and pay for it andccrue that cost in 2010. >> reporter: some employees have until march 15to submit medical expenses accrued in 2010. you have time to book that root canal you've been putting off. >> reporter: that news4 at 4:00. news4 at 5:00 starts right now.

lashing winds, heavy snow, long delay creating some ffle travel conditions up and down the east coas thousands sti stranded. or a second day after this weekd's blizzard. god afternoon. i'm wendy rieger. >> i'm jim haly. a huge headache for those tying to ad home. we have the coverage of the impact from the air to t roads and the rails. we begin with chief meteorologist doug kammer with deils of a wind advisor in effect for our area. >> for the most part, we were not affected as far as the snow was coerned around most of the area. now it is justhe wind. take a lk at the snow accumulation north and west of the i-95 corridor, less than an inch. half a inch toward reagan national airport. but also to the eas places like annapolis, charlie county, saint mary'scounty, and the southern snt mary's county and areas of the northern neck did see sixto