three years of false income tax returns. >> let me say, i want to apologize to those i let down including my constituents, neighbors, friends of ward 5, fellow councilmembers and government officials who serve this city tirelessly. >> reporter: friends and lawyers ushered him to a waiting car. he'll be back for sentencing and could get prison time up to three or four years. in court at high noon, thomas firmly said guilty as charged in the plea agreement reached with prosecutors. >> to my family who is with me today, i deeply regret the pain that caused each of you. >> reporter: thomas formerly resigned his seat in a letter to the council, friday. council chairman kwame brown said thomas' staff has been let go. thomas' seat will remain vacant until a special election.

that special election would be held in may. here is an interesting number, the special election will cost about $350,000. that's about how much harry thomas jr. stole from the city. jim, back to you. >> tom sherwood, thank you, tom. tonight, we are getting a closer look inside the federal investigation of harry thomas jr. to see how the scheme worked. pat collins continues our coverage live outside the u.s. attorney's office with more and the man who helped bring him down. pat? >> reporter: doreen, harry thomas jr., he treated d.c. taxpayers like they were his own personal piggy bank. some things harry thomas jr. bought with your money. a victory motorcycle, $23,745. an audi suv, $58,575.

airline tickets, $19,000. there were clothes and restaurants, well, you get the idea. >> time and time again, mr. thomas used for his personal gain taxpayer funds that were intended to benefit the city's most important resource, its children. >> reporter: there was no holding back today. in strong words, members of the justice community denounced harry thomas jr. as a common crook who stole from the children of the city and betrayed the trust of the people who live here. >> the victim is the whole of district of columbia, including its youth. the offender, who is a different kind of opportunist, one who was elected, stole tens of thousands of dollars at a time. >> reporter: harry thomas jr., he took office as the councilman

back in january, 2007. they say before the paint on his office door was dry, he was stealing. >> almost immediately, almost immediately upon taking office, he made a decision that he was going to systematically steal funds. >> reporter: the scheme? the u.s. attorney says thomas would use his position in power to steer grant money to help kids in our city to non-profit organizations. the organizations kick big-time money back to thomas. someone asked for receipts. someone asked for records. no problem. make it up. this whole scandal was brought to light not by investigators. not by an ethics commission but by this man, tim day. he's a republican who ran against thomas back in 2010. >> with the clout of ethical

cancer over our current administration, this is probably just the tip of the iceberg. i think that if we were to have an independent audit, a true, details audit, we would find millions of dollars misappropriated. >> reporter: do you think those millions of dollars ended up in the pockets of some of our political leaders? >> and their colleagues. yes. >> reporter: so, will more people be charged in this case? watch this space. doreen, back to you. >> pat collins reporting. thank you, pat. d.c. council chairman kwame brown spoke of the events this afternoon. brown is the suspect of an investigation over his 2008 election to his former keown si seat. reporters asked how the events impacted his feelings about his own issues? >> i look forward to moving forward and having closure. it's important. the message was clear, i'm

looking forward to closure. >> are you worried you are next? >> no. >> the legal staff is trying to make the special election coincide with the april 3rd primary that's already scheduled. we hope you'll stay with news 4 for developments on the scandal. for the latest, head to our website, www.nbcwashington.com. national politics now. candidates who hope to replace president obama had a lukewarm reaction to the latest unemployment report. the new figures show the jobless rate has fallen to the lowest level in nearly three years. the cants were not willing to give the president credit. steve handelsman is in manchester, new hampshire with more on this. steve? >> reporter: jim, thanks. good evening from manchester. no surprise. none of the republican contenders in this race would concede any of this good

economic news was the doing of the democrat in the white house they are competing to run against. as the better jobs numbers came out, new hampshire front-runner, mitt romney was campaigning in south carolina, claim k 1.7 million jobs have been lost under president obama. >> we wonders what would happen if we elected a president who had no experience. he failed to put americans back to work. >> reporter: in new hampshire, newt gingrich slammed the president. >> today's unemployment numbers are a good ind icator, we are a long way away from a good economy. >> reporter: gingrich has 9% support in the latest tracking poll. ron paul is sect at 17%. santorum up to third, 11%. the former massachusetts governor, 40%. it's a dominant lead for romney, but santorum has the buzz. he brought it today to new

hampshire. t in a defense, he said employment may be up because of the gop presidential campaign. >> there might be optimism republicans are going to take the white house and maybe that's spurring people to take risks and i'll take that as a reason. >> reporter: later, pressed, he backed off. are you really taking credit for the new jobs? >> oh, i was just joking. i was taking tongue and cheek. >> reporter: he's coming across as serious and likable to many people in new hampshire. >> pretty impressive. haven't heard a lot from him before. >> go home and make my decision later. i was impressed. >> santorum got support from christian conservatives. southern baptist leader, richard lamb said he and others are reaching out in individual and

conference calls trying to force newt gingrich and perry to quit the race and throw their support to santorum in the conservative effort to stop romney. live from manchester, new hampshire, i'm steve handelsman, news 4. back to you. >> thank you, steve. president obama plans to include a small pay raise for federal employees in the 2013 budget if congress approves the race. it will be the first since a two-year freeze went into effect in 2010. they thought of extending it to fund a payroll tax cut that expires at the end of february. the raise proposal has not been announced yet. it was report ed by "the washington post." a developing story on metro tonight. the transit agency ordered hundreds of inspections after another incident where the train's braking system fell on to the tracks. it happened today outside the stadium armory station.

derrick ward is in the area with more. >> reporter: metro has 1,142 rail cars in their fleet. they are going to have their hands full this evening and the next couple days inspects over 400 of them because of a piece that fell off earlier today. before noon, this train was leaving the stadium armory station when a piece of the braking assembly came off. it's similar to this friction ring that came off last week. a track worker happened to see today's incident. the worker flagged the train down. the car was inspected. now, more inspections system wide. >> we are going to do it as they come in to rail yards at the end of the evening. the timing is kind of add venn teenageous. we are up against a weekend where we need fewer cars to run. >> reporter: riders are unnerved. when things fall off, there's

fall out. >> to me, it's poor performance. i'm not putting the rail down, but maintenance is maintenance. >> we were delayed ten or 15 minutes. i didn't know how long the delay would be. >> reporter: the car in question was inspected in the last two to three months. the the incident today lasted two and a half hours. they don't think the inspections will cause much of a disruption over the weekend because it is the weekend and they are able to inspect the cars as they are taken out of service for the day. we are live outside stadium armory. back to you. >> thanks. a grandmother learns her fate for the murder of a 2-year-old thrown from the parking overpass at tyson's corner. what they are plans to remember the victims of the shooting in tuson last year. who is getting a fast pass through security. a dog buried in an avalanche

defied the odds. he found his family some time later. >> 63 degrees today the high temperature. we are still sitting at 58. can we beat it as we head into the weekend? i'll show you that in a minute. let's go to hakeem. i love that tie. >> thanks. the capitals knowing what they need on the road. the wizards feeling the pressure on their head coach. penn state

there is an alert to want for people who live along the potomac river. according to maryland state fire officials seven military ordinances have been found on the shore of newtown state park in st. mary's county. the park has been closed indefinitely as authorities sweep the shoreline to find explosives there. the ordinances are likely being unearthed with the tide. still no word on from where they come. on december 27th, the "uss john" aircraft carrier.

it touched out of a series of threats from iran. they helped in the rescue of several iranian fishermen. they responded to a pirate attack and chased them to their mother ship. sailors from the guided missile destroyer boarded the ship. they found 13 iranian fisherman held hostage on their own boat. the fishing boat was taken over some 40 days ago. this weekend marks the one year anniversary of the awful tragedy in tuson, arizona. six people killed in the rampage. congresswoman gabrielle giffords survi survived. she will be among the thousands that gather to honor the victims. we have the report. >> reporter: it has been a year of mourning, remembering and recovery. one year ago sunday,

congresswoman gabrielle giffords was shot point-blank in the head in a supermarket parking lot by 22-year-old jared lee lof ner. he then turned the gun on the crowd, killing six, including a federal judge, a staff member and the youngest victim shot as she held the hand of a neighbor who brought her to see her congresswoman. >> i call her my beautiful little angel. every day, i talk to her. >> reporter: the anguish her family feels is tempered by loving memories and a great sense of pride. >> my young daughter in nine years, she achieved more things than most adults do in their lifetime. >> reporter: 13 people survived the shooting including giffords after months of recovery and rehabilitation, he returned to the floor in august and served thanksgiving dinner to troops in tucson. for those who lost loved ones, the pain of that morning one

year ago remains an open wound. >> it feels like it's been 100 years and it feels like it was yesterday. >> a courthouse named by the judge. a meeting room named after giffords staffer. >> tucson is not dwelling in what happened but how can we be better. >> reporter: thousands are expected to attend a vigil. among them, gabby gif fords who gives hope to a community still struggling to understand why. nbc news, tucson. the suspect in the shooting was jared lof ner. he's been diagnose nosed with schizophrenia. he's being medicated to make him competent to stand trial. he pleaded not guilty to the charges. active military members will

be able to clear airport screening faster than the rest of us. president obama signed a law to produce and implement a plan to speed up screening for traveling military personnel in uniform and those traveling with military orders. tsa says it will allow them to focus more on higher risk travelers. the new security standards must be in place by early july. some believe the law may be a bad idea and point to last saturday's arrest of a north carolina soldier caught by tsa screeners with explosives in his carry-on bag. doug has a check on the weather. it was so delightful, it's almost scary. january 6th and it's 60-some degrees. who's complaining. >> the awful cold we had makes you appreciate a day like this. >> we started at 17 a couple days ago and we are 63 today.

i want to talk about a huge snowstorm that came to us 16 years ago today. nothing coming down the pipe. 16 years ago, do you remember where you were during the blizzard of '96? >> i do. we spent a little time here in the studio. >> i would assume so. one of the biggest storms to hit the corridor. let's see how things are here. you know, we are not seeing anything in the form of snow out there now. it is just gorgeous out there. a fantastic evening. but, it was on this date, 16 years ago, that we started to see the first flakes start flying from the blizzard of 1996. one for the record books, you betcha. from richmond up the i-95 corridor. 20 inches in washington. 21 in new york city and 19 in boston. a couple areas to the western virginia, west virginia and western portions of maryland picking up 30 inches.

what a storm that was. for those of you what the snow lovers, you would love to see this again, wouldn't you? there's nothing in the forecast. you have to go colder to get something like that today. we hit 63 degrees. today was the tenth day we have been at or above 60 since december 1st. it's been amazing how warm it has been. it looks like that warm air is going to continue for at least one more day. 58 is the current temperature with winds out of the south-southwest. 56 in martinsburg. 54 toward the river. here we are at 6:00 at night and temperatures in the mid-50s. unbelievable for this time of year. temperatures were 20 degrees above average today. nothing to show you here. we widen out and see moisture to the west. this is rain toward chicago. minnesota, wisconsin, normally for them, this is snow. this is a cold front that's going to make its way to the southeast. it will produce cooler weather for us over the next few days.

high temperatures today, 70 in st. louis. 70 in jackson. 61 in cincinnati. 66 in raleigh. we have a lot of warm air to go through before we see the cooler air move in here. nice and warm with the sunshine. shower activity toward the mountains tomorrow. for us, we'll stay on the dry side. don't look at the shower and think you are in for something. a warm day. then the cold front moves through. sunday, we are cool but not cold. sunday still looking nice. i think we'll see sunshine on sunday. i think temperatures will be above average. then we are going to turn our attention to this storm here. it's going well to the south. some computer models trying to bring moisture here monday and tuesday morning. some of them produce snow showers. i don't think it's going to happen, but still, it's a storm we are going to watch. most likely, it will stay well to the south before the next storm comes in. that one coming in in the middle

of next week. that's going to be a big one thachlt is going to be a game changer. it will be all rain. clear. mild. a beautiful evening. 52 to 56 degrees as you step out the door this evening. tomorrow, we are going to see a spectacular day. a nice start. 30 to 40 degrees. that is very mild. remember, our average high is 43. i think we'll be around 40 to start off the day. we are warm in the afternoon. another great day. 58 to 63 degrees. we'll see sunshine along with clouds from time-to-time as the front moves through. 62 for a high tomorrow. 49 on sunday. 46 on monday. 52 on tuesday. then we have been talking about the game changer. wednesday and thursday, we'll see a chance for rain and some areas could see heavy rain. it gets cold again. this is the one that i think will change the pattern. it's not two days of cold, then warm. this will change the pattern for a week or two. >> we better make the most of this opportunity. >> i would. >> thank you, doug. coming up tonight, a jobs

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there's a new report out that shows jobs were up, unemployment down in december. the president is calling that

positive economic news. some, say the economy is not improving fast enough. brian mooar with the report. >> reporter: the u.s. economy picked up another 200,000 jobs last month easing unemployment to the lowest level in nearly three years. >> it is important for the american people to recognize we have added 3.2 million new private sector jobs over the past 22 months. nearly 2 million new jobs last year alone. >> reporter: it's good news for president obama in this election year. he's crediting the middle class tax cut. >> the economy is moving in the right direction. we are creating jobs on a consistent basis. we are not going to let up. >> unemployment is down from 9.6% in 2010. the nation has 6 million fewer jobs. >> 200,000, good but not good

enough. >> unemployment stands at 8.5%. those who have given up looking for a job or stuck in part time jobs, the underemployment rate is above 15%. labor statistics show a corelation between education and employment. 13.8% for workers with less than a high school diploma. the unemployment rate stands at the lowest level since january, 2009. the strong jobs report was not enough to offset investor worries about the euro crisis. the dow was down 55 points. nasdaq up four and s&p 500 was down three points. the housing market is still struggling.

property values in maryland plummeted with the biggest declines in prince george's county. they suffered a 36.5% drop. "the washington examiner" reports it's the worst drop in the county in five years. montgomery county saw a 13% drop. it's slightly less than the 17%. state officials say the drop is not surprising because 80% of home sales there last year were foreclosures or short sales. coming up tonight, justice for the family of a 2-year-old child thrown from a parking overpass at tyson's corner. raising questions about the safety of this road. the occupy movement is heading indoors. it's not because of the cold weather. coming up in sports, steps up to the mic about the penn up to the mic about the penn state hiring process.

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returns. after making the plea, he apologized to his family and constituents. he's facing up to four years in prison when he's sentenced in may. there are three full days left for republican presidential candidates to campaign for the primary. a brand-new poll suggests mitt romney has a big lead. romney has the support of 44% of likely republican voters. ron paul is in second place. but he is way behind. he trails by 24 points. rick santorum and newt gingrich tied for third place with eight points each. metro ordered inspections for hundreds of rail cars. it comes after part of the breaking some fell off. nobody was injured. it is the second time that something like this has happened in just a few weeks. there was an emotional scene inside a courtroom today as a

woman was sentenced for throwing her 2-year-old granddaughter off a tyson's corner elevated walkway. >> he gave a tearful apology before she learned her sentence. julie carey has the report. >> reporter: at age 51, carmela dela rosa could spend her life in prison. the outing ends with her picking up her 2-year-old granddaughter and tossing her to her death of

an elevated walk way. the judge imposed it. >> tossing an innocent child off a bridge is hard to imagine anything worse than that. then resting on the insanity defense, i threw my granddaughter off the bridge, it doesn't wash. >> reporter: indeed, the jury rejected her insanity defense. a worsening depressive disorder left her not knowing right from wrong. this confession was kieey evidence. >> you lost your mind? okay. when you say you lost your mind, what do you mean by that? >> i did a terrible thing. >> reporter: the victim's parents sat in the front row of the courtroom as the sentence

was delivered. more than two dozen friends came to show support for the defendants. della rosa showed stoned emotion. >> she was crying. she was saying she's sorry to cat and james and to her husband. she listed family members and simply said she's sorry this happened. >> reporter: prosecutors say the pain was simply too great for the parents to make a statement. >> it's been a real nightmare to be honest with you. they are still in the nightmare. but, i will say they are very strong people. they have a strong faith. they have a wonderful family and i believe they will get through this. the ripples will go on for 100 years. >> that was julie carey reporting. investigators in maryland are looking for the person who murdered a man in his driveway. it happened in the 8000 block of ian's alley. officers say two men wearing

masks shot 36-year-old gregory sears in front of his house. he died at the hospital. detectives are still trying to figure out who did it and why. three workers rushed to the hospital after a fire at a warehouse in maryland. the fire broke out 10:30 this morning on corporate boulevard. they found three workers injured after shelving collapsed inside the warehouse. their injuries were not life threatening. there's no word on how this fire started. prince george's county, police are looking for a hit and run driver in oxon hill. somebody slammed into a couple crossing oxon hill road this morning, then sped away. police are searching for the person responsible. that accident is also raising questions about the safety of that road. erika gonzalez has the report. >> reporter: police need help tracking down the driver who struck two people in an early morning hit and run accident in

prince george's county. >> possibly a small compact gray vehicle. it should have front end damage on it if anyone has information on it, call us. >> reporter: just before 7:00 this morning, a couple was hit crossing the the street in the middle of the 6200 block of oxon hill road in oxon hill, maryland. >> the area was not a crosswalk area. >> reporter: the nearest one is 200 yards away. the man is expected to live. the woman sustained critical injuries. we caught multiple people crossing the same street in the same place as the victims. one, two, three, at least 12 people dangerously dodged traffic within 20 minutes of us being there. residents like john lewis say police in that area don't enforce the law like they used to. do you know it's illegal to cross without a crosswalk? >> i didn't know that.

it's called jaywalking, right? they used to give tickets to people. they don't do that anymore, so they do it all the time. >> reporter: ron was one of those people until he got hit by a car. he was riding his bike down the same street the victims were hit when it happened. >> very few crosswalks. i mean, you know, you are at your own risk. if you get hit, it's on you. >> reporter: now, he has a steel plate in his leg and says it's as dangerous a street as ever. police say it's illegal to cross the street here in maryland without using a pedestrian crosswalk. erika gonzalez, news 4. more drivers in fairfax county got behind a wheel after drinking this past holiday season. it went up by 12%. police arrested 358 drunk drivers during the safe december initiative.

despite the crackdown, police say there were 546 alcohol related crashes from january to october of last year. during that same time period, almost 200 of the people cited for drunk driver were under the age of 21. coming up tonight, your retirement fund might be losing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year because of hidden fees.

hello, i'm meteorologist, doug kammerer here in storm center 4. it is a gorgeous day today and a nice evening now, too. look at the high temperatures across the area. 63 in washington. 64 in leesburg and manassas. to the south, culpeper coming in at 66. it was incredible how warm it was. with all the sunshine, a spectacular afternoon. winds out of the south-southwest at 11 miles per hour. nice and warm out there this evening. this evening is really going to be perfect no matter what you are doing. storm 4 doppler radar, all dry. morning temperatures tomorrow, 34 in martinsburg. 36 in leesburg. 37 in manassas. washington with a temperature tomorrow morning around 40. that is well above the average of 29. nowhere close to that. tomorrow, back above average, again. close to 15 to 20 degrees above average. the temperatures climbing to the

upper 50s and lower 60s across the area. saturday looking very, very good. then we see changing coming into the forecast picture. i'll show you that again in a minute. >> thanks, doug. some demonstrators are moving into a pair of houses where they will continue their protest. the move has nothing to do with avoiding eviction or the winter temperatures. they describe it as phase two of the protest. they want to raise money to start a tv show. protesters at mcpherson square have no plans to move indoors. an amazing story of survival for a dog who escaped an avalanche. david died during the snow slide. the family thought their dog died, too. the welsh corgy showed up four

days later at the motel where they were staying. >> i was like what? what happened. she was like he survived. >> it was a nice moment. we all had a moment of happiness. it was nice to share that. >> the family says he was hungry and tired. now he's barking and playing like nothing happened. >> incredible what dogs can do. >> it sure is. >> what are you working onuoha chemo? >> the wizards are working on a win. >> they should. >> the capitals heading west with one key part of their game plan on their -dad, why are you getting that? -that's my cereal. is there a prize in there? oh, there's a prize, all right. is it a robot? no. is it a jet plane? nope. is it a dinosaur?] [ male announcer ] inside every box of heart healthy cheerios are those great tasting little o's made from carefully selected oats that c help lower cholesterol. stickers? uh-uh.

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so, they got a new coach and apparently a lot of people are not hoop pi about this, huh? >> a lot of people are not happy. they went outside the penn state family and got a new guy, bill o'brien. right now, penn state is not making a comment on the report that the school is hiring patriots offensive player, bill o'brien. the hiring was reported by chris mo mohr mortonson. tom brady and bill o'brien getting into a shouting match. o'brien had to be restrained. they sorted out their differences and moved on. helping new england lead in offense. he's headed to penn state.

current players and former players are not happy about the decision. >> the way they did things, the way they handled what took place, it basically sent a clear message. this is why i got p.o.d. i took except to the way things were handled. it comes across to me, the decision they made is conceding the fact that everything about penn state's tradition is guilty. don't make it about the football program. make it about the decision making body. you guys step down. >> strong statement there. here is how another former player feels. redskins running back tweeting it could be a good fit. we could use help on offense. he has clearly had success. can he do it without tom?

referring to tom brady. who is bill o'brien. his first coaching job was at brown. he moved to georgia tech where he spent seven seasons. he coached the running backs at maryland. on to duke. in 2007, he got his big break going to the nfl to be an assistant in new england, coaching tom brady. they made him offensive coordinator. he has no direct ties to penn state. he will coach the patriots offense throughout the playoffs. meanwhile, keep up with the coaching changes in washington. in the last five years, 22 different professional head coaches of managers in d.c. currently, the longest tenured coach of a pro team. two tennis championships, his job is very safe. unfortunately, it doesn't appear that way for flip saunders.

he posted back-to-back losing seasons. now the third, the wizards are off to the worst start in franchise history. often when the team is struggling, the head coach is blamed he's the scapegoat. saunders remaining committed to turning things around. >> we have had times where we have lost a game or two. you try to nip it in the bud. what you do is try to get the players that play winning basketball, not play to win, play oning basketball. if you do that, the wins are going to come. >> a lot of people are focusing on the coaching staff and the general managing staff, management and, you know, the players have to take ownership as well. we have to look internally and find out who is it that are leaders? who are we trying to go to to get a bucket? if we are going to compete and contend for anything real. >> it's nice to hear the players

accountable when they are doing poorly. hey, it's on us, too. you can't put all the blame and make saunders it scapegoat. it's part of our job to win games. >> there's enough to go around, isn't there? >> there's a lot of blame. >> let's win games. talk is cheap. >> talk is cheap, play the game. the wizards will try for the first win of the season ahome against the knicks at 7:00. hometown hockey, the capitals go for their fifth straight win. the caps haven't won theirs since 1993. center niklas backstrom says he's ready to go against the sharks. the team is evaluating him after the elbow from calvary on tuesday. having him in the lineup is important. so is a good start. they scored first in three of the last four games. that's the focus tomorrow night. >> it comes on a quick start. you know, i think we are

comfortable coming in in the last game, coming in the third with a lead. we get the lead, we are comfortable playing like that. we feel good about hanging on to it when we get it. a quick start for us. kind of wait until the game, come out right away. >> we have been doing okay at home. the road is a challenge against l.a. and san jose who we lost to on the road a couple times in a row now. this is a great test. they may not be vancouver and whoever else at the top of the league, but they are very good. >> in valvery, 19-year-old prospect playing at the world championship. no score. the sweet spinning path. he makes the save. another look here. the teams combined for 66 shots on goal in regulation. no score. we go to overtime. in o.t., a loose puck picked up.

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there are hidden fees you may not know about and they may be hurting your retirement fund. we take a closer look. >> reporter: out rage. rarely is anything ever said about investment expenses. those fees and commissions firms charge when you trade and sometimes when you don't. personal finance experts say we don't protest because we aren't paying attention. >> if i ask you how much you are paying for cable tv, you can tell me, round it to the next dollar. with this stuff, you probably have no idea. with this, it's an invisible hand that comes in and takes money out. >> reporter: there could be fee ifs your balance is below a certain level or extra fees for not trading much. robert says fees can eat away at profits. >> in a market where the returns can be minimal, you don't want

to give away the little you are giving back on the front end in the form of fees. >> reporter: read more closely monthly statements. >> for stock mutual funds, 1% is a decent threshold to look at. preferably, funds with expense ratios. i would never pay more than 1%. >> reporter: be willing to shop around and willing to take your business elsewhere if it looks like you are being nickelled and dimed to death by your brokage firm. coming up on the broadcast tonight at 11:00, we show you why a coast guard helicopter was called in to help a construction project in ocean city, maryland. also, we'll reveal where military ordinance has been washing ashore in our area. and, a report on the elected official who blamed a brain tumor for her shoplifting habit. itis not the end of the story.

we liked doug's forecast so much, we want to hear it again. we brought you back for more. >> happy to be here. i have great news to show you as far as weather is concerned. another great one tomorrow. fantastic this evening. nice weather tomorrow. nice may be an understatement. 62 degrees. mostly sunny skies. more clouds tomorrow than today. cooler but not cold. 49 on sunday. 46 on monday with 30% chance of shower activity. 52 on tuesday as we clear out. we should see a lot of sunshine tuesday afternoon. then we watch the game changer, the wednesday/thursday storm, it's going to be a big storm. it will drop a lot of rain. it should be all rain but will usher in cold air behind it. a high temperature of 35. it looks like that cold snap could actually last a little while. the last cold snap was that, a snap. >> put the coats