video that was shot right here in this 7-eleven. detectives are determined to catch the suspects. saturday night at 11:30 cameras capture a flash mob in action. >> the detectives are working to identify the students or teenagers involved. >> reporter: the video shows 50 teens walking to this silver springs 7-eleven stealing snacks and drinks. >> reporter: after the items were put in their pockets, they walked outside. the police found several teens in the area near the 7-eleven and able to stop six of them. >> some people watching this will say why didn't you guys arrest them? >> at that point the officers who stopped those individuals, identified them and took photos and obtained their name, address and telephone number and identifying information. >> reporter: the suspects had 7-eleven snacks without receipts. the police will look at the video and see if the six are

shoplifting. the parents want a proposed curfew for anyone 18 years old and under. >> if they are doing things that are detrimental to the public they need to be controlled better. >> reporter: the robbery is similar to one in germantown three months ago. >> you want them to understand that this is not going to be passed off and taken lightly. >> reporter: now i talked to the people at this 7-eleven and they work hard here all the time and they wish people would pay for their snacks. it's important to point out that the county is going the look at the curfew situation. they have not passed the proposal. police want you to look at the video on our website, www.nbcwashington.com. if you recognize any of the people shown in it, give the police a call. they want to hear from you. that's in montgomery county. i'm shomari stone. back to you in the studio. a few days before black

friday and a warning that can make you a target for criminals is your cell phone. stay off it when you are at the mall. the warning today comes after a woman was carjacked at tyson's galleria over the weekend. the power is back on now for thousands of people in northern virginia after many returned home to darkness tonight. 10,000 people lost power at 5:00 this evening causing a longer commute for many. most have had their service restored. the outages were in arlington and alexandria. the outages were caused by a car accident taking down a power line. the overseas financial market are seeing a stale meat in the supercommittee tonight. in reality nothing got done today. both sides stood their ground. the economy continues to sink. the panel was supposed to trim $1 trillion from the deficit over the next ten years. but the committee could not

reach a compromise. both parties blame the other side for failure. >> there is a lot of money to be saved there without cutting benefits for people on medicare, for example. i know our democratic friends like to portray that as the choice. >> if they take the bush tax cuts off and let the american people decide we could have an agreement today. >> a set of broad spending cuts will automatically trigger in january of 2013 and includes more than half a billion dollars in cuts to the defense department. upset with the government response to the economy, members of occupy d.c. are digging in for the winter. demonstrators are beginning to build shelters using concrete and wood. will the serve as the spot for the group to escape the cold as well as for meetings and speeches. the permit expired at the end of

december. hundreds rch maed in california in support of free speech after a nasty clash with campus police. officers pepper sprayed a group of demonstrators who appeared to pose no threat. two officers and the uc-davis police chief are on administrative leave. there is calls for the university chancellor to step down. a federal agent whose job is to keep terrorists off planes is locked up. he is facing criminal charges in an attack on a woman while in his uniform. aaron gilchrist has more on this. aaron? >> reporter: that tsa agent, harold rodman is supposed to -- his job calls for him to have contact with the flying public each and every day. but tonight he is in a jail cell accused of attacking one of his own neighbors. >> more like a model of the community as opposed to anything but that. >> reporter: cameron morse doesn't believe what his next

door neighbor is accused of doing. this is 52-year-old harold glen rodman. just before 3:30 sunday morning he approached a woman as she was getting out of a friend's car and walking to her townhouse. he was wearing a uniform and flashed a badge. the 37-year-old says she was groped and sexually assaulted. when he ran, the woman called police. >> during that canvass, a man came out of his residence that matched the description was was interviewed and detained. >> reporter: rodman is a tsa supervisor at dulles airport and was wearing his uniform at the time of the alleged assault. his neighbor finds the story suspect. >> there is no motive. it doesn't follow his character at all.

>> one of the police detectives asked if we had seen anything? >> reporter: kathy lives across the way and says she slept through the commotion and now he is uneasy. >> there is little vandalism or anything suspicious in this neighborhood. so we are surprised. >> reporter: we received a statement from the tsa this afternoon that reads in part that the tsa is working with the local law enforcement on this matter. right now, harold rodman is in the regional jail here without bond. we're live in manassas. back to you. >> thanks, aaron. the child sex abuse allegations at penn state university will be investigated by the former director of the fbi. the board of trustees named louie free to oversee the investigation of the scandal. jerry sandusky was accused of sexually assaulting eight boys over 15 years.

frankie probst is not one of sandusky's accusers but he met sandusky when he was ten years old. as he got older he avoided sandusky. >> we grew apart because he was getting clingy. >> you said i can't see you this weekend. i want ha to hang out with my friends. what was his reaction? >> he would be upset. >> he never told his parents about his reservations. the candidatal is hurting penn state's reputation. sales of school memorabilia are down 40% from a year ago. retired army general will head an independent review of the motor ware at dover air force base. reports that remains of fallen service members were lost or mishandled on several occasions. he was the head of the u.s.

central command. he will review changes to the mortuary and make further recommendations. funky out there serious rain coming. >> will the be coming in the next 24 hours or so. we have seen the drizzle, mist and fog but we have light to moderate rain that is making it its way through in the next couple hours. this is a line that extends all the way back to the west. we have a lot of rain making its way our way. right now tornado watches to our south and west. i'll show you how that storm makes its way our way and how it could affect your thanksgiving holiday. the second leg of the intercounty connector is set to open in a few hours. but there is concern that the money was not well spent. jackie bensen has a first look. hi, jackie. >> reporter: they claim it will cut the drive time from gaithersburg to bwi from 71 to

37 minutes. between 20 and 30,000 vehicles a day are expected to use local roads to reach the icc after the section between i-95 in laurel and georgia avenue in silver spring opens. but officials expect a number higher than that for the first couple weeks when people can travel the highway for free. >> i will take it for free. i will take advantage of it. with the money that we are paying for taxes, you know, it should be for free. >> for $40 a week, no. >> what about if it were free for a couple weeks? >> free of course but not for $40 a week. not at all. >> after december 5th, tolls during peak hours will be $4 each way. drivers without a transresponder will be $6. the road was debated for 50 years because of its environmental impact. it was contested by residents

whose backyards now look at the highway instead of woodland. the completed icc will open at 6:00 tomorrow morning but it could be open a little earlier than that. back to you. >> thanks, jackie. a woman was attacked while out jogging at 6:00 this morning in the 200 block of east delray avenue. someone grabbed the woman from behind. she screamed and was pushed to the ground. the attacker ran away then. joggers should be extra careful when they are running especially in the early morning hours. look at the people in these photos. they are suspects in a series of robberies at eye wear stores in fairfax county. they stole half a dozen pairs of expensive glasses from the four eyes in alexandria. the cases may be linked to a series of thefts in montgomery

county. a teenaged burglar learned that breaking to a house can be big trouble. the 19-year-old was shot by the homeowner early yesterday morning. the teen broke in through a window and the noise woke up the man inside. the homeowner grabbed his handgun and got off a shot. george williams was hit in the foot. police found him a short time later and arrested him. the secrets to the successful trips in the air. an i-team special report. an effort to save thanksgiving. what was delivered to target's world headquarters. a warning if you own a kindle. what could be killing

the holiday travel season is underway but delays can be added baggage for air travellers.

the news4 i-team is crunching the numbers to show you the most reliable times to fly. >> reporter: have you noticed how expensive it is to fly these days? the last thing you want to do is because you miss a flight entirely. we dug through the flight data to navigate the choices so you can get home on time for the holidays. you go up and come down and rush from here to there and you stop because your flight is delayed. >> wow. we just don't have a seat for you. >> this is my daughter's first time flying. >> reporter: wednesday can is taking her daughter claudia to disney world. >> really excited. because it's going to be fun. >> reporter: but it's not fun when you are stuck. the news4 i-team obtained a government report from the u.s. department of transportation. jetblue is last for on time

arrivals so far this year. just 70% of its flights showed up on schedule. jetblue says the flights are concentrated in the northeast and disruptive weather affected ontime performance this year and we were impacted by thunderstorms in new york city and hurricane irene in august. kara mcgill travels a lot for work. >> i'm not a morning person. >> reporter: she is always delayed at night. >> it is annoying when you are delayed anden miss a connector. >> reporter: getting up early is the secret to success. in september 100% of flights arrived on time at dulles airport between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. but at night the rate is 68%. >> first flight of the day that is an aircraft that arrived the night before. that gives the airlines a huge amount of opportunity to work out the kinks. >> reporter: rob with the

washington airport authority say that there are rush hours. >> don't travel when everybody else is trying to do the same thing. >> reporter: delays are bad but cancelled flights are worse. the most recent numbers show that express jet cancelled more trips and bumped more passengers because of oversold flights than any other airline in september. express jet says we have implemented procedural changes that resulted in significant improvements in the on time and completion rates. lucinda hughs writes a travel column on her blog. >> i refuse to spend the night in the airport. >> reporter: she says is it worth paying extra for the direct flight especially during the holidays. >> i love to be frugal. but there's frugal and cheap without thinking it through. many times the connecting flights are just not worth it.

>> reporter: sometimes you have to connect. all the experts say you should try to connect through an airport with the best on time arrival rate which is why we made this list. this is all of the major airports in the united states. and there is an interesting phenomenon. right here, newark airport on time 66% of the time. compare that to salt lake city which had an on time right in september of 92%. that is a big difference. another thing that a lot of people care about is baggage which is why we have this list on our website. this is called the mishandled baggage report. number one right here, airtran. number 16 at the bottom of the list, american eagle airlines. now the airline tells us almost all the bags do arrive on the same flight as the customer and the ones that don't are not usually lost but misconnected or late. something they say all carriers

deal with. you can find all of this including the responses from the airlines we mentioned on our website, www.nbcwashington.com. jim, doreen? >> up thanks. the petition to save thanksgiving landed at target's corporate laes today. it contains the signatures of 200,000 people who say that the company should not make their employees work on thanksgiving. the stores open on black friday at midnight. no comment from the target officials but the company has a copy of the sales paper on its facebook page today. a newspaper in the united kingdom says there have been people in rouse reports of amazon kindles dying after going through spray machines in europe. amazon has replaced the kindles who have experienced this. static from the conveyor belts

could be to blame. thousands of families will have a better thanksgiving thanks to contributions from news4 viewers. we partnered with several businesses for this year's food for families campaign. enough food was raised to feed 4,000 families this thanksgiving. >> we thank you for coming out as the weather got yucky as the day went on. >> that is the word. i don't know what you said earlier. you said what? >> funky. >> funky. it was funky out there. you can say that. it is going to be worse over the next 24 hours or so. you could describe that as --? >> funky. >> it is going to stay that way. expect more showers and drizzle and fog. the high temperature was 26 degrees. but that was at 11:54 in the morning and the temperatures

fell in the afternoon. right now we are at 51 degrees. we could see half an inch to 2 inches of rain over the next 24 to 48 hours. 51 at the airport. winds out of the east-northeast. temperatures cooler to the north. warmer to the south. 55 in fredericksburg. as for the rain, most of it is just off to the west here but we are seeing the drizzle and the mist across the area. this rain coming in through 66 and it will make its way to the district and the beltway over the next hour or two hours or so. but look at the storm off to the west. this comes through tomorrow and wednesday. this one producing tornado warnings right now in parts of arkansas. that storm will be moving our way over the next 24 hours. shower activity during the day tomorrow. pretty much all day at least periods of rain all day. and more on wednesday as that area of storminess moves across the area and could be thunderstorm activity to the

south and east. not expecting anything severe right now but this will be in the warm air section. we will watch out for that. behind it chilly and windy wednesday afternoon and wednesday night. as we make our way through the day tomorrow, cloudy with fog and periods of rain. tomorrow, another yucky, funky day. cloudy and rain heavy at times. mild, 54 to 58 degrees. that is around the average for this time of year. wednesday rainy and warm to start. but falling temperatures. thanksgiving, friday, and saturday all look fantastic. so we'll get through this and smooth sailing from there. >> we like that news. still ahead, a singing group from a local university says good-bye after making the final four of a national tv competition. in sports, skins

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so the skins continue their losing streak. how about the caps? >> no. they're too good to lose -- [ phone ringing ] >> when did we get a phone here? hello? hello? >> they hung up. >> hang up they will take our phone away. >> i only have three minutes. that was 25 seconds of my sportscast. >> the phone rings? >> holy cow. capitals coming off their poorest performance of the season and riding a four-game losing streak. they needed a win badly. he decided the best way was without alexander semin who was a healthy scratch for the first time in eight years. the inmates are not running the

asyl ac asylum anymore. see this again. carlson tries to pass. a steal and he is all by his lonesome gets the shorthanded goal. the second period caps down 2-0. carlson earns redemption. fires and scores. the rocket off a defender's sick. his third of the year. the caps tie it up later in the period. we are in the third period tied at 2. backstrom doing the dirty work along the boards. the puck out to joe ward. rebound out to backstrom. he also had an assist. the capitals beat the coyotes 4-3 and snap that losing streak.

next up, winnipeg on wednesday. in pittsburgh, sydney crosby making his season debut against the islanders. he hadn't played since january 5th because of a concussion. and he received a hero's welcome tonight. vintage crosby. splits the defenders and goes back hand for his first goal since december of 2010. this is a pretty one. this guy is one of the best in the game. penguins shut out the islanders. not too shabby for one of the best players in the game. for the redskins, some injuries are not as bad as seemed. santana moss will test his hand

tomorrow. if moss could play running back that might really help. the redskins' running game is dead last in the nfl over their six-game losing streak. the three-headed monster combined for just 46 yards. mike shanahan knows his running game leaves a lot the be desired. >> you've got to have that big run. you know, somewhere in the game and we haven't been able to do that. and unless you get a couple of the big runs you look pretty average. and that's what happened during that game. they do a good job up front. we miss a few holes. blocking wasn't perfect. we did what we needed to do to win the football game and that's what counts. >> they did look better but lost six in a row. the nine game losing streak goes back [ elevator bell dings ]

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