cyber monday up by more than double of last year. >> reporter: like it was when first launched in 2005, shoppers were expected to take advantage of cyber monday at the workplace. >> 46% of shoppers plan to do it in the workplace. 11% plan to spend more than five hours during workshoping online. it all started today on cyber monday. >> reporter: clothing, jewelry, children's toys and consumer electronics top the list of the most purchased items while savvy marketing is getting the credit for the demand. >> we continue to see retailers come up with creative ways to get consumers into the buying mode. >> reporter: they set e readers up, too. both used like never before in assisting shoppers. >> you have this assistance all

the time now. a little more than a year ago, we couldn't conceive people would have minicomputers with them all the time. >> reporter: ones that give cyber shoppers another advantage. so, we asked people around our area what amazing deals they found today. >> a number of you posted on our www.nbcwashington.com facebook page. 75 cent dvd on amazon. granted it was an old cabbage patch kids shows. >> macy's 24 piece king bedding set regular $450, she paid $99.99. >> david wrote, i'm noticing a lot of retailers are inflating their retail prices to make them look like a discount meaning you are getting duped into buying it

at regular retail price when you think it's 60% off or whatever. >> thanks to everyone who posted their comments. now to the big story of the day. the washington capitals have a brand-new coach today. it's a very familiar name. they fired bruce boudreaux this morning. dale hunter will replace him. he's coached the london knights for the last 11 seasons. this is his first time as a head coach in the nhl. he's ready for the challenge and plans to run a very tight ship. >> i'm a players coach, but also the players will know when i'm mad at them. i'm stern on them. that's the way you have to be to win games. mistakes, everybody makes mistakes out there. if you continue, there's rep recushions. >> he leaves with 200 wins under his belt.

hunter's first game is tomorrow night under the st. louis blues. president obama hosted leaders from the european union today at the white house. he warned europe's debt crisis could cost american jobs. steve handelsman reports. >> reporter: concern that europe's debt crisis could drag down the american economy, president obama urged the president's of the european council and european commission to take bold action now. >> europe is having difficulties, then it's much more difficult for us to create good jobs here at home. we send so many products and services to europe. it's such an important trading partner for us. >> reporter: it's an economic cancer spreading from greece facing default to portugal, ireland and italy. france and germany sure to feel the effects said a report out today. >> it's rapidly deteriorating.

>> reporter: without huge european spending cuts, tax hikes and bailouts, not only would u.s. companies sell less, they could lose billions. a repeat of 2008. >> the worst case scenario, we have the euro zone collapse, the european banking system seizing up with untold consequences on the u.s. sector. >> reporter: u.s. lawmakers aren't leading by example. the super committee failed to make the demands they don't make. >> we need to take decisive action on the things we need to control. >> reporter: that was the obama message to the europeans today. the president will not ask u.s. taxpayers to kick in help. i'm steve handelsman, news 4, capitol hill. on wall street, the stocks closed up, gaining 2%. it's after boosted confidence

following the record-breaking shopping weekend. nasdaq up 85. s&p closing 33 points higher. >> congressman barney frank is retiring at the end of his term. he announced he doesn't plan to seek re-election. he was amajor architect of the sweeping banking reform passed last year. he remains the ranking congressman on that committee. he's 71 years old and was one of the first lawmakers to announce he's gay. the official holiday season hit capitol hill. the tree arrived in d.c. this morning from california national forest. it will be erected on the west lawn of the capital building with 10,000 l.e.d. lights and 2,000 handmade ornaments.

the lighting ceremony takes place next tuesday. it will be lit until 11:00 every night through new year's day. a little warm to light a tree today to get in the holiday spirit. it's going to get colder. >> veronica johnson is going to tell us about the dip heading our way. >> that's right. as far as today goes, it was oddly surreal. kind of weird. it almost felt like we were not going through the day. it was so mild coming off a mild weekend with dry conditions through the weekend. despite the cloud cover across the area today, we remain dry. the temperature at 66 degrees. just like yesterday, we are well above average. temperatures running some 15 degrees above average. where it's 66 in kensington, herndon, falls church, 70 degrees right now. 73 degrees in culpeper, virginia. gotta love that for november.

spring like temperatures, the rain is well off to the west. i think we are going to stay dry for the evening. your good night forecast, dry and mild. temperatures dropping from 68 degrees at 5:00 to 64 at 7:00 and down to 60, only 60 by 11:00 p.m. it's going to be a mild evening. we'll talk about the morning rush coming our way and how mild, how wet tomorrow is going to be. we'll also talk about what's happening south. as odd as our weather is here, this is down south. this is jackson, tennessee. the's big snow flakes falling and covering the ground. where is that system? it's headed this way. more details, coming up. >> thanks, veronica. montgomery county police are looking over a video to help in a string of carjacking. three older carjackings took place off university boulevard. two attacks happened at the

giant parking lot, the third at the target lot. tracee wilkins reports the last attack was particularly violent. >> reporter: yesterday's 77-year-old victim was leaving target and getting into his vehicle when he was approached by a suspect armed with a box cutter. he was forced into the passenger seat and drove him to atms. the victim was discovered cut and bruised in the passenger's seat of the vehicle in east west highway in hyattsville. the victim was treated for serious, but nonlife threatening injuries. this is video of the second victim dropped off a a bp in northwest on saturday. his was one of three armed abductions. they all involve elderly men. today, we talked with folks who live and work in the area and

got their reaction. >> at this time of the year, with the economy so bad, people are desperate. they need things and are willing to do whatever to get it. it's scary. >> you take it for granted. you don't think about something like that. when it gets dark, you might be more conscienceious about people lurking. 1:00, 2:00, 3:00 in the afternoon, wow, that's not good at all. >> i hope police can be on top of it. it's bad if someone is going arnds with box cutters. i hope there's more security there. we use this mall all the time. >> reporter: they are reviewing security video. they don't have a great description they released to the public. anyone with information, give them a call and you can make the call anonymously at 866-411-tips. in wheaten, i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. police have just released new video of the suspect conn t connected to the carjackings. we'll have that for you and the

latest on the investigation coming up in a live report at the top of the hour. >> we are just getting started here on news 4 at 4:00. miley cyrus admits she's a stoner. we have the hollywood scoop. toyota shows off its fun vehicle. a coach fired after

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>> you can stop traffic in that. it's toyota's new futuristic car. i's the fun vii which stands for fun vehicle internet. one of the sides is a touch screen computer. this is a concept car but an example of what may be included in other toyota vehicles in the future. >> how much do they want for that. >> lindsay vaughn and her husband are calling it quits. they are divorcing after four years of marriage. she won a gold medal last year. her husband is a former olympic skier and acted as her manager and adviser. she said this is an extremely

difficult time and urged fans and media to respect her privacy. >> sam lost the element of surprise. he's not going to come at you head on. he's got the place surrounded. he'll wait for the opportunity. >> he won't get through without a fight. >> no fight. >> no fights at the box office. "twilight" took a big bite. it came in first at theaters for the second week in a row. they took in $42 million. >> wow. >> behind it was muppets followed by happy feet, arthur christmas fourth and hugo, came in fifth. stoner or jokester? what is the story with miley cyrus? >> here to update is us billy bush with access hollywood. let's start with miley cyrus. she says stoner. is this a joke or for real?

>> her friends delivered her a bob marley cake. flash back to a year ago on her 18th birthday, the photo circulated with her lips attached to a bong smoking salvia. because of that photo, i think on the 19th they decided to give her the bob marley cake. miley said you smoke a lot of weed when your friends give you a bab marley cake chlgt her reps put out a statement saying it was a joke. kelly osbourne did the same. those with no familiarity with it don't say weed. they say marijuana, something like that. >> look at the free publicity she got for doing nothing but eating cake. you know? that's not too shabby. >> anne hathaway rises. she got an offer she can't

refuse. >> adam showman, he's an actor. they have been dating since 2008. he popped the question. they are engaged. we don't have a date yet. he's a nice guy. he helped design the engagement ring. doesn't that say thoughtful guy? >> yeah. >> attention to detail guy? >> yeah. >> a good man. >> yeah, i like that. >> she needed a good man. she had a rough go with it. >> that businessman we don't talk about. >> now let's talk about this latest thing with j.lo. she's moved on. she's in hawaii with her new boy, is boy toy fair to say? >> she's 42. he's 24. he's a back-up dancer. she's been down that road before, married one named chris judd. that didn't work out well. his name is casper smart. boy is he smart. i guarantee she's footing the

bill. this says to me, midlife crisis. she's in her 40s, wearing a body suit. now she's got a young hot guy. she's j.lo, she's hot, viable and still in the game. i don't think this is love but i think it's fun. >> was he a dancer we are seeing in this, billy? >> he's one of the guys in the background. try to match it up. casper smart. >> we need to come up with a cool nickname for him. >> casper the friendly dancer? >> i don't know. what do you have tonight? >> tonight we have angelina jolie did a big interview. barely scratched the surface in talking about brad pitt. she's wild still, but only with him. we are going back and showing some of the wildest moments with angelina jolie. i was there for some of them. >> oh. oh. >> and you remember them?

even better. >> hey -- >> are you going to show us those? >> not right there. nearby. >> okay. all right. >> we look forward to it. >> yeah, see you billy. coming up next, name that octopus. how you can help the national zoo next. >> don't call him casper. plus, with the struggling economy, why many families are

what do you name a giant pacific octopus? anything he wants. that's what the folks over at the smithsonian national zoo are trying to figure out for this octopus they have. on november 4th, their beloved octopus died. now there's a new young creature there. the new one is a year and a half old. it's too early to determine the sex. they are teaming up with "the washington post" for the contest.

>> i like that. then you have the ducks thing going on. >> another nice day, we are on a roll. look at this. blue skies and warm. >> shorts and flip-flops. >> a lot of people called in sick today between cyber monday and the weather outside. what we are going to get is one more relatively mild day tomorrow. it's not going to be as dry or quiet across the area. let's look at the temperature, 66 degrees. partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies out there. humidity at 59% with the wind at 8 miles per hour. check it out, manassas and warrenton, 70 degrees. 70 in leesburg. 72 in fredericksburg, virginia right now. the idea is it's going to stay on the mild side. we drop to 60 degrees by 11:00 p.m. midnight. early tomorrow, not going to

drop much after midnight, 58 to 59 degrees to start things out. rain and on the wet side tomorrow morning. light showers for tomorrow morning. mild conditions. it's during the afternoon we'll see the heavier rain. the entire area dry. rain around morganton and elkins, west virginia. then there's the big part of the system, right there. area of low pressure. lots of rain ahead of it with a cold front toward london, kentucky and snow around paducah, kentucky. western tennessee, east of memphis, big flakes of snow coming down. i have been reading the tweets coming from the area they are amazed at how fast it's coming down and how big the flakes are. there's the winter storm watch. they get one to two inches of snow throughout the area. areas of western tennessee, northern alabama. maybe northern georgia could get

a little bit of accumulating snow out of the system. a big soaker to the north and east. we are wet tomorrow morning. a lot of wet tomorrow afternoon. heaviest rain for the afternoon. it should be moving out for the late evening. for wednesday, much cooler and breeziest as the storm system blows out of here. for the evening, you are not going to need the umbrella at all. partly cloudy. 62 to 57 degrees. good evening to be out. we are wet tomorrow with the rain developing. 53 to 58. not that chilly. in fact, the overnight temperatures, tomorrow morning, closer to the highs next week. the high temperature tomorrow, right around 63 degrees. with rain very likely across the area. 52 is the high for wednesday. 52 for thursday. sunshine back. lots of sunshine for the week. 52 to 55 degrees. during the overnight, much, much colder readings, too. simply amazed, it's upside down

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welcome back at 4:30, i'm jim handly. >> i'm wendy rieger sitting in for pat lawson muse. the holiday shopping frenzy is in gear today. online retailers offering deep discounts for this one day. more people are using their smartphones and tablets to get in on the online shopping action. police are looking for the suspect behind three carjackings at the westfield wheaten shopping center. all the victims were older shoppers. the latest happened yesterday afternoon, broad daylight when a man with a box cutter forced a 77-year-old man into his car, told him to drive to an atm to

get cash. the caps made a big change at the top. coach boudreaux fired this morning. dale hunter will replace him. his first game will be tomorrow night. on wall street, stocks made a big gain today following the robust start to the holiday season. the dow picked up 291 points. nasdaq shot up 85 and s&p 500 ended 33 points higher. a child molestation case involving a former assistant coach for the syracuse university basketball team is growing. >> bernie fine was fired after a third person stepped forward to say he was sexually abused. county officials say the u.s. attorney's office and secret service are heading this investigation. jay gray has the latest. >> reporter: on sunday, long time assistant basketball coach bernie fine was fired after a

third victim came forward acc e accusing him of sexual abuse. he had already been placed on administrative leave following allegations from two stepbrothers. the head coach called the allegations disturbing and deeply troubling. the brothers claim they were sexually abused by fine more than 20 years ago. >> he started trying to touch me and things like that. you know, honestly i don't remember if i thought that was what was supposed to happen. i know i cringed up and didn't want it to happen. >> reporter: two days after the fbi searched fine's home they aired a 2002 phone call which fine's wife acknowledges the abuse. >> i know everything that went on with him. maybe he's not aware of it but

he has issues. >> davis claims he recorded the call for fear his allegations against fine would not be believed. now a third victim, a 23-year-old claims he was molested by him in pittsburgh in 2002. >> i have a feeling there could be many other victims in this case as well. if somebody didn't back up bobby davis and his story, it could continue. >> he faces sexual assault charges in maine involving a 13-year-old boy. he's pleaded not guilty to those charges. coach fine called all the allegations against him false. in a case strikingly similar to the scandal and cover up unfolding at penn state, there are questions here at syracuse about what university officials knew and when. >> it's a penn state world. there's an element to what happens in vegas stays in vegas.

you can see how powerful they are. >> facing a fall out. scandals and the programs that built their prominence. >> we have a new development tonight regarding the tape recorded conversation. a nephew for bernie fine's wife says she'll make a statement tomorrow challenging the implications that she knew about the alleged sex abuse. the tape has been tampered with. a third grader in cleveland heights, ohio was taken away from his family, put in foster care because he's o piece. he's 8 years old and weighs more than 200 pounds. he's at risk for diabetes and hypertension. they did work with the mother for a year before asking the court to give them custody of the boy on the grounds of medical neglect. a lawyer for the mother says he's active, on the school's honor roll and his health is not a danger.

15% of americans now rely on food stamps. every month, in a lot of walmart stores, families are waiting until 12:01 to shop. it's changed the way walmart does business. kate snow has the story. >> reporter: becca is nearly out of food. >> there's no milk. >> reporter: and she's out of money to buy more. >> just water, bacon grease for the dog's food. a little bit of apple juice. two kinds of cheese and tortillas. there you go. >> reporter: her, her husband and 2-year-old son will have to hold on for six more days until the first of the month. it's when they get the cash to go food shopping. it's the same story for james and jessica. they live in the same idaho town. they are also out of food and waiting for the moment they learn there's money in their account to feed themselves and

the children in their blended family. >> we are calling the quest card line to see what our balance is. >> reporter: finally, they get word. >> your balance is $691.00. >> a great big haa. >> reporter: it's 12:01 a.m. now they can go shopping. the money they have been waiting for isn't from a paycheck. it's a month worth of government assistance from the food stamp program called snap. the number of people who rely on food stamps has gone up 37% to 46 million. so many people are shopping the instant they get their assistance. it's changed the way walmart does business. >> a few years back, we started seeing customers were literally, sometimes at midnight, were

really showing up in our stores. >> reporter: on the first of the month? >> on the first of the month. >> reporter: she's the vice president of store operations. you bring on more staff because of this spike? >> right. we bring in more staff to stock and make sure all our registers are open. at 12:01, people think walmart is quiet. in a lot of areas, 12:01 is a big night for us. >> kate will have more on the impact of midnight shopping on families with "rock center" tonight on nbc at 10:00. coming up next on news 4 at 4:00, my app of the day. it will help you on this cyber monday. it's all about gifts. prince william co-pilots a helicopter rescue mission. if you own a volt, why some are

i have a cool app of the day for you. it's the gift and gadget guide for the editors of the daily. it is cool. take a look at the graphic it

comes with. it's got a wonderful animated graphic with a modern feel to it. it allows you to see what kind of cool stuff is going on out there. i hit household, again, another very cool graphic of a household. you open it up and for the living room you see this. you tap to reveal. it lists all the cool electronics in this living room. you scroll down and it shows the panasonic sealer where you can get it. you can share it with your friends. the nintendo wii. the roku. let's go outdoors. that's another cool place. outdoors, look at this stuff. apparel for skiing, mountain man 2.0. it's a ma'ams world. where you can get all these different things. again, where to buy them, how much you can get them for. it takes you to a good sight

that gives you where you can find a good bargain for that. really cool. then also, out in the garage, if you want, you can even get a car, if you would like. if you are -- if you want to shop for a car this way. plug and play. how cool are these? it's really cool. i love it because if you want something more edgy in the high-tech world. it is for your ipad. you want to be able to see the cool graphics and look at this. it's called gift and gadget guide. it's the app of the day from the ed tors of the daily. check it out. it's cool just to browse through it and see what people are doing with this form of media. >> lot of neat stuff. thank you. coming up on news 4 at 4:00, the search for a missing mother in florida. today, the winners of a $254 million lottery prize come

forward. coming up at 9:00 on nbc washington nonstop, we are kicking off the holiday season. we whip up authentic italian dishes. we head over for the best pumpkin dessert ever. then we go behind the scenes of "hairspray." the hit musical is playing at a local theater. plus, we meet a group of teenagers who take their love of harry potter to new heights in

so, we may get one more day out of this. >> one more day of at least relatively mild temperatures, above average. itis not all pretty tomorrow. a little wet throughout the day and more seasonable as we were talking during the break, temperatures back in the 50s. not in the 50s, but the 30s south. let's switch from our shot to haleyville. this is down south. it's raining hard. weather kind of flip-flopped, upside down. we are in the 60s. 66 in d.c. 68 in norfolk, virginia. 45 degrees now in atlanta, georgia. 43 in nashville. a stack of 30s from chicago down

toward st. louis and memphis, tennessee, cold air here. it's where the area of low pressure is. a lot of moisture coming up from the south. accumulating snowfall for the south. it's interesting to see. doug will have video coming up during the 11:00 p.m. newscast of some of the images down south where the snow is accumulating quickly. 66 here. oddly mild. temperatures tomorrow, again in the 60s. it will feel like it does now, balmy. the system is advancing. for the good night wake up forecast, we are dry during the overnight. 60 by 11:00 p.m. wet for tomorrow morning and for the afternoon rush tomorrow, too. 59 to 58 degrees. the high tomorrow is going to be reached early around noontime to 1:00. the heavier rain moves in and temperatures fall off. 6:30 in the morning, light showers around the area.

by the time we get to noon, mercury starts to drop. mid-60s tomorrow then falling off. wednesday, breezy. we'll get sunshine back for areas east. off to the west, accumulating snowfall for the mountains of western maryland and western virginia. one to two inches of snow. the temperatures tomorrow in the low 60s across the area. yes, you are going to need your umbrella and rain gear to stay prepared. then the 50s for wednesday, thursday and friday. sunshine comes back at the end of the week thursday and friday. if you are looking ahead to the weekend, saturday and sunday, 48 to 51 degrees. a little bit of spike in the temperatures early part of next week. it is looking wet on monday. not bad after tomorrow. >> all right. great. we can deal with it. >> thanks. well the irish sea is cold and unforgiving as a bunch of sailors discovered when their ship sank and prince william

came to their rescue. >> we have the story from michelle. >> reporter: everything about this mission was treacherous. middle of the night, pitch black, gale force winds, waves 20 feet high. above it the air force helicopter rescue co-piloted by prince william. below, two sailors clinging to a lifeboat. they lowered a rescuer to the violent surface and pulled both russian crewmen to safety. the huge british freighter was hit by an enormous wave, rolled, split in two and sank. one body was found, other's missing. this is prince william's day job. he talked about it just before his wedding. >> it was apparent how important the job is.

when you have 14 knot windses carried down and you are trying to get to someone who broke a leg, it gets interesting. >> reporter: in september when we saw them on a visit to a hospital, what we didn't see is he just work add 24 hour shift, up all night. he rescued a woman with a head injury, picked up a fellow serviceman on a ship who needed to get to a sick loved one, then tackled his royal duties. >> it definitely is advanced flying. it's rewarding. put it together and it's a fantastic job. >> is it too dangerous for a future king? >> he said he didn't want to be wrapped up in wool and made to do easy duties. he wanted to have a proper job. this is his duty. >> reporter: it's hard to describe the level of respect and admiration the people here have for his military service.

you can hear him telling about it. he's expressed interest in staying in the air force beyond his tour of duty. back to you. still ahead on news 4 at 4:00. they live in one of america's wealthier towns and today they are fill think rich. a mother who vanished. coming up next on news 4 at 5:00, a coaching shake up for the capitals. what fans are saying about the firing of bruce boudreaux. a charity checklist. what you need to know before donating to your favorite charity this holiday season.

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there are new developments this evening in the search ffr a missing mother in florida. >> michelle parker disappeared the same day she appeared with her exfiance on "the people's court." a weekend raid suggests otherwise. we have the report. >> are you helping clean that out? >> reporter: michelle parker just being a mom. these videos taken weeks before the 33-year-old disappeared. >> this is like a morgue now. there's no life here anymore. >> reporter: inside her home, her mother tells us reality is starting to kick in. >> i hope we get to see her again, you know? as the days go by, i don't know. >> reporter: it's been 11 days since the popular bartender and mother of three went missing, on the same day she and the father of her 3-year-old twins appeared in a taped episode of the

"people's court." all though they have a violent history, dale smith is not a suspect. over the weekend, the investigation took an unexpected turn. in a cell phone video, a s.w.a.t. team raiding his house, the same house the twins are staying while the search for the mom continues. >> i see the s.w.a.t. come up to the window, a flash grenade, broke the door in. >> reporter: the police go into his house, what do you think they were looking for? >> michelle. they were looking for michelle. >> that's news 4 at 4:00. >> news 4 at 5:00 starts now. tonight on news 4 at 5:00, violence at dupont circle.

police try to figure out what sparked the fight that left one dead and five others injured this weekend. national harbor won't be the happiest place on earth. why disney is nixing the plans to come to maryland. >> one of the busiest shopping days for online retailers. how to stay safe from scammers this cyber monday. >> hello, welcome to news 4 at 5:00 tonight. i'm jim handly. >> i'm wendy rieger. we are going begin with a disturbing crime scene. police are looking for a suspect behind a string of carjackings and they just released new surveillance video. all the victims older shoppers. all the carjackings happened at the west field wheaten shopping center off university boulevard. the most recent occurred yesterday and left the victim with cuts and bruises. pat collins joins us live from the mall where police stepped up security. pat? >> reporter: he did it

wednesday. he did it saturday and he did it again yesterday. carjacking, kidnapping robbery. it all started right over there. this is security camera video of a man wanted in connection with three attacks on three seniors in the last five days. police hoping someone will recognize him and give them a call. in the meantime, at wheaten shopping town, security officers on foot, patrolling on bikes, driving in trucks, a high alert. you see three seniors were robbed after they were carjacked and kidnapped in the parking lot here. three crimes committed by the same man in the same way at about the same time in the same place. the scene, the westfield wheaten shopping town. the time around