good morning, everyone. welcome to "news4 midday." i'm barbara harrison. right now, new hampshire voters are headed to the polls to make their voices heard in the nation's first presidential primary. the voting actually started early this morning just after midnight in a tiny village of dixville notch. romney and huntsman tied for first signaling it may be a tight race ahead. nbc's tracie potts joins us from manchester, new hampshire with more on today's primary. hi. good morning. >> hi there, good morning,

barbara. everyone is asking after seeing that and these numbers that came out new today could there be another iowa-type surprise. but this time for jon huntsman. overnight numbers showed mitt rom my and huntsman solidified their support here, somewhat duplicating what we saw in the tiny town overnight. >> the polls are now open. >> reporter: just after midnight mitt rom my and jon huntsman tied for first in dixville notch with two votes each. >> i hope you are going to be able to give me bigger margin of victory than eight votes i got in iowa. >> reporter: romney is the clear front-runner today but will it be a big win? his supports eroded 10% in just a week. as newt gingrich and others hammer away at his record. gingrich predicts he will do better than expected. >> mccain was behind in 2000. we will see. i sense a lot of momentum. >> reporter: ron paul is polling second here. >> running hearts and lines. >> reporter: jon huntsman told a standing room only crowd he's

hoping for a strong finish. >> can you feel a little bit of momentum in the air? we are going to surprise a whole lot of people in this country tomorrow night. >> reporter: his supporters predicts success today. >> worked incredibly hard in new hampshire and that deserves to be rewarded as well. >> reporter: rick is an tore sum not expected to pull off another iowa surprise. rick perry is focus order south carolina. >> iowa and new hampshire, they are a wane owing process. south carolina picks presidents. here's what you do. >> new hampshire is important, too. and here's why. in the last 60 years no one has gotten the republican nomination without placing first or second in this state. >> we will be watching to see what happens there. thanks for that report. turning to the weather now and sunny morning out there

right now. we are not getting the snow we had yesterday. tom kierein told us yesterday morning that we could have some and that you are right about that. >> i said we would see flurries and that those are some flurries. yesterday afternoon that it did pile up one to two inches parts of northern virginia and northern fauquier counties, parts of prince william and then farther to the east southern fairfax county. and it was pretty narrow band. right now, though, it is much of a melting and temperatures are well above freezing, 41 at reagan national, after a foggy and cold start, beginning to warm up. annapolis 45. it is into the 40s now. much of the shenandoah valley out of the mountains, too, most locations in the 40s. and as we had this january up and down weather continuing and the morning fog we had has now dissipated. there is the latest view from space and may be lingering fog in southwestern fauquier county and culpeper county. that should be dissipating, too, shortly and over the next hour. lots of sunshine elsewhere. rather chilly afternoon with highs in the upper 40s and maybe

briefly the low 50s by early to mid afternoon. we will have a wind out of the northwest shifting that way by later this afternoon. maybe for briefly gusting to 20 miles an hour from time to time. overnight tonight clear and big changes on the way for tomorrow. we could get quite a bit of rain. talking about that and how much rainy think we will get. then a big chill for the weekend. how cold will that get? we will talk about that, too. latest school advice tonight a couple of minutes we will see new a few minutes. we check on the midday traffic for first look. here is danella sealock good morning. couple of problems on the beltway. first let's start with the inner loop. in virginia at braddock, have an accident here but it is in your right shoulder lanes. still see something delays for you. and as we switch over, want to give you a lye look at arlington boulevard. inner loop, you are jammed from braddock all the way to i-66. and also taking a look at the inner loop at gw parkway here crews are working in the left shoulder lane. as well as the cones are up in the left lane but you are clear as you make your way across.

and if you are traveling on i-270, absolutely clear here. north and south. no accidents to report. no delays at this time. back to you. >> okay. thank you. >> it can cost you more to ride metro soon. trance it agency unveiled a fwhuj budget proposal that calls for an increase 5% for bus and rail fares. eun yang is here now with the budget breakdown. >> this morning, metro unveiled a new fare hike proposal. it is all part after new budget proposal designed to help eliminate the 116 million shortpalm. proposal calls for a 5% increase to bus and rail fares and to eliminate the peak of the peak surcharge. biggest change is for paper fare card users. no matter how long you ride whether it is a one-stop or ten you will have to pay one-day flat fares. riders will pay $6 during rush hour and $4 in off-peak times. for martrip card holders, max it

will cost is $5.75. and for off-peak hours, $3.50. under the plan with us fares will increase as well. ten cents to $1.60. and hits keep coming. . under the proposal the cost to park would go up bay quarter but if you bike you may actually save money. the bike locker rental fee is going from $200 a year to $120. >> all right. thank you. how are metro riders taking the news of the possible rate hike? news4's megan mcgrath joins us live in front of dupont circle metro station now. megan, what are the riders saying this morning? >> there is a growing frustration among metro riders. they are upset about delays along the rails and upset about equipment, broken escalators, rails that cracked in recent weeks. they say that with service at such a low level, they shouldn't have to pay more. raising fares on metro, it is never a popular move among riders. >> it is ridiculous.

i already spend $10 a day. >> i'm paying for parking at metro and the metro -- it is $15 a day. and parking at my build sing $18 a day. >> reporter: smeft face $116 million budget shortfall. general manager richard sorrel says a 5% hike in fares is needed to help cover cost. maintenance work has been deferred for too long. >> after years of not vesting in the system we have to make the investments. this is what this budget allows us to do. >> reporter: riders have become increasingly frustrated with metro's service. brake parts have fallen off of cars in big weeks causing big delays. there have been cracked rails and ongoing escalator problems. the money raised by a fare increase will not help with those problems. lit just keep the system running. annoyed riders say they shouldn't pay more until metro becomes more reliable.

>> it is tiring enough as it is and the service is really bad. >> every day there is a problem on the train. nothing works. the elevators are down. the escalators are down. the trains are slow. and people are mad. >> same escalator they spent six months fix sing broken again. that's what it takes 15 minutes to get out of the station. so i just -- i don't understand why it takes so long. >> reporter: and this is just a proposal at this point. it would need to be approved by metro's board before that could happen there would be a series of public hearings. now if the fare increase was indeed passed you could expect to pay more come july 1. barbara, back to you. >> thank you. today a suspected serial killer will learn his fate. jason scott will receive his sentence today. he admitted to committing more than -- before being arrested in 2009. police believe he used his job

working at ups to find his victims' addresses. scott will spend the rest of his life in federal prison no matter what as a mandatory sentence for his case is 97 years. scott also faces separate murder charges later this year in the killing of a mother and daughter in prince george's county. this morning, a maryland man and former u.s. soldier in custody accused of trying to help a terrorist group. federal prosecutors say 24-year-old craig baxom from laurel tried to provide terrorist material. he wanted to move to somalia and live under shia law there. if convicted he faces up to 15 years in prison and he hassing a second hearing scheduled for tomorrow. time right now 90s after 11 cloak. coming up, staff changes at the white house. we will tell you who the latest shake-up involves. could we see one of the hollywood's biggest couples walking the streets of d.c. today? why angeleina jolie is in town.

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this morning, the national transportation safety board met to discuss air show safety. there were eight major accident at air shows last year including one in reno that killed 11 people and injured about 70 others. ntsb officials say this hearing is the first of its kind and

isenstial to make sure air shows in the future stay safe for pilots and audience members alike. a major shake-up in the obama administration as the president prepare force november's election, chief of staff bill daley announced his resignation yesterday. president obama appointed jack lu as his replacement. lew serves as a white house budget director. he will be the third chief of staff in the obama administration. rahm emanuel was in charge close two years before becoming mayor of chicago and handing things over to daley. today the supreme court will hear arguments over what's considered indecent on television. broadcast networks filed a lawsuit against the federal communications commission saying the group's indecency regulation ring violating free speech rights. networks argue because of advances in technology, parents can choose for themselves what's considered inappropriate. also say the current rules are so broad and vague stations are unsure what's allowed and what

isn't. well, i'm going to congratulate tom because i did tell him i could smell the snow yesterday morning. pat lawson muse told me she felt the same thing yesterday and you said it is out there somewhere. >> yeah. i know what you mean. you do. you can smell the humidity and dampness, coldness in the air. then if you look up and actually a lot of the snow initially was falling and it was evaporatinev. dry but then eventually things got saturated and did reach the ground. we had scattered flurries from mid morning to early afternoon. it picked up it is a afternoon went on and quickly exited last evening. then after that we had a lot of fog around this morning but now the sunshine has returned. good morning. right now reagan national there is capitol hill basking in the sunshine. it is up to 41 degrees after a cold start. much of the region was below freezing this morning. but now warming up we have a southerly breeze coming in off of the potomac at reagan national. the temperatures elsewhere are now hitting the 40s. throughout much of maryland and virginia as well as the shenandoah valley and in the

highlands of west virginia and western maryland. now climbing into the 40s there. now near 40 in montgomery, prince george's, arlington drishgts of columbia. milder near the bay waters. over the last 12 hours, this area of gray, that was the fog we had this morning. now it is beginning to break up a lot. there is one patch of fog that may be lingering here as far southern and southwestern fauquier county into culpeper county. that should dissipated, too, as the -- afternoon progresses. and as we go forward over the next 48 hours, we will be -- seeing lots of sunshine, clear and clear this evening. then tomorrow morning we will have the clouds closing in. leading edge of some rain moving in. this is by noontime wednesday. rain approaching us, looks like during the day wednesday, pockets of yellow and orange, throws areas of moderate heavy showers coming through on wednesday night and very early thursday morning. nen by dawn on thursday, a lot of the rain should be ending and exiting off to the east and as it does pull away, we will get sunshine back. as we go forward here over the -- through the storm system,

over the next 36 hours, here rainfall totals expected a half inch to maybe up to an inch and half of rain. blue area looks like that's a zone of some -- maybe heavier rain up to an inch and a half. right around the district, including prince george 's and much of northern virginia, west virginia. those are some of the heavier rains. maybe enough briefly for ponding of water especially by late tomorrow afternoon. for this afternoon, enjoy sunshine. we will have our temperatures reaching the low 50s by early to mid afternoon. after that, though, we will begin to get chilly. northwest breeze out of the -- coming in out of the north and west, gusting to 20 miles an hour this afternoon, early this evening. bringing in chillier weather mid 40s, early evening. near 40 by midnight tonight. under a clear sky. then after midnight is when we will have the clouds on the increase. they will be rolling in tomorrow. mid 30s tomorrow morning. then only the upper 40s tomorrow afternoon as we get that rain sweeping in around noontime into the metro area. and during the afternoon and early evening could get brief moderate downpours from time to time and then it will pull away

and we will get sunshine back by thursday afternoon and highs low 50s. then on friday, into the low 40s and partly cloudy. much colder friday night, down near 20 degrees by dawn saturday and saturday looks to be bright and sunny. highs only the mid and upper 30s and another cold day sunday and morning lows near 20. afternoon highs climbing into just the mid 30s with more clouds around and then for march kin luther king day jr. monday sunshine. last week i traveled to fairfax county and visited this school, springhill school in mclean, virginia, and talked to the fourth graders there. we had a great time. way to thank a teacher there in the back standing next to me, trish, a fourth grade teacher. had all the fourth graders there at the spring hill school. about 150 kids there. we had a lot of fun talking about snow. that's what they wanted and got their wish yesterday. there at the spring hill school. they had some snow. not enough to cancel school to the great disappointment of

students and teachers and school bus drivers. everybody had go back to school today. >> 150 fourth graders. they have that many in that class? >> they have five fourth grades there. yeah. big school. lot of students. >> looked like great group. thanks, tom. we are going to check in with the midday traffic again. let's say hello to danella sealock. >> we are still in bug trouble inner loop of the beltway seeing red. that means you are jammed bumper to bumper. starting around braddock. live look at arlington boulevard. these cars are slowly crawling towards i-66. i will give you a travel speed also roughly about 21 miles per hour. not looking good and inner loop in virginia. also inner loop this time gw parkway, not seeing any delays but crews are working. this time in your left shoulder lane. but also i can see the combs are blocking the left lane. just be aware of that. you are clear as you make your way across. barbara, back to you.

>> thanks, danella. 18 minutes after 11:00 now. still ahead, from riches to discolored nails. how to fix ridges. a taste of new orleans ahead of the saints/49ers matchup from a virginia bakery. we will show you how to make a game cake. the word is swapportunity.

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always looking to party down there. in new orleans, celebrations are already under way. they have officially kicked off the 2012 carnival season. the saints have made it through to the first round of the nfl playoffs so they are going to be play thing weekend. so to help with the celebration bayou bake i have mixing up a special who dat king cake. she's going to show us how to make it. >> i always love a party. we have to get you started. >> all right. okay. who dat is what they scream to the saints when they are making a touchdown. >> exactly right. we are in the playoffs and going to the second game in the playoffs. we wanted to be able to be in the spirit and having v a king cake. kicked off king cake season january 6 which is king's day. we party all the way to february 27. >> bayou bakery is in arlington, right? >> arlington. >> lot of fans over there? saints fans? >> saints fans. they are critical.

they come in and taste that king cake, they have been so excited. especially because he's now adding creole cream cheese in the middle of the king cake. >> let me run through the recipe for folks watching so they can try to make this for themselves. okay. looks like we have a bread dough and cake dough. package of dry active yeast. quarter cup of warm milk. one cup plussition tablespoons of bread flour and tablespoon of honey. got to be sweet for new orleans. here comes the cake dough. three-quarters cup of cake flour, two large eggs. one large egg yolk. two tablespoons of sugar. we go to a half teaspoon of ground cinnamon, half teaspoon of have an ail extract, quarter teaspoon of almond extract, teaspoon of salt, five tablespoons of unsalted butter, one plastic baby figurine. >> i will put it all together. we have all of the ingredients, you said. >> this is the bread

ingredients. and honey. >> honey is in there. add cinnamon. okay. and then the egg yolks. >> all right. >> the butter. >> all right. >> okay. let's put this all together. what we have in the magic of television, voila, a dough. this takes a lot of time. it is a time to sit. there is one point of the step where you have to cover it and let it sit for 207 minutes. >> okay. >> once you have it, then what you need to do -- >> keep rise. >> it will keep on rising. >> punch it down punch it down again. you massage it. just like that. what is going to happen is then you have to grease a large bowl like this for the remaining and you have to before you are going to be able to roll it out, you have to make sure that this dough is nicely greased. okay. >> nicely greased. i remember my mother did hers like that, too. >> what we want to do is then you have it and here is your product right here. >> okay. >> okay. >> have you taken it out and made it into -- >> nice dough. >> okay. >> so we are going to finish it

off and what you -- do -- everybody can see it right here. so then we are going to close it up right here. that's the finished product. just knead it right into place. you have a wonderful circle. what we have to do is make an egg wash because you want it to have a nice crisp on the whole crust. >> that's your egg in here. >> and you egg wash it just like this. >> the big difference here is you have honey in this dough. >> exactly. >> dough with honey. >> what bayou bakery about is all natural products. very, very important to have that. he makes everything from scratch. we put tonight a 375-degree oven. >> bake it. >> voila. >> all right. this is what it looks like. crisp outside. >> crisp outside and it is so moist inside. >> okay. then what happen? >> what we want you to do or i can do it, then you will help me with some of the sugar because we have our black and gold sugar

here. >> that's for the saints. >> saints. okay. what you do is easy to do. just icing and always needs that good -- >> what's the icing made of? >> icing is made up of right here, i had the ingredients. it is -- >> powdered sugar. >> light corn syrup, milk, vanilla extract, the you mix it all together and this is your -- traditional royal icing. >> okay. >> that's what you should be able to have to do. then you put it around. then it will fall into place. okay. >> oh, yeah. you see, it is going to start -- it is going to start just oozing. >> we want a whole lot of that. >> you definitely do. >> okay. all right. >> you have to sweeten up everything before ash wednesday. you know that, you give it all up. >> that's true. >> wait. let's do our black and gold. sprinkle a little bit. that's what is fun. >> this is a gold. powdered sugar. this is right here.

>> sugar. >> sometimes you can do it in strips and it is however you feel you want to decorate. >> it this is -- >> little bit of the black. >> how do you -- where do you find black sugar? >> i make it. let me show you how to do this. this have very -- >> ran out of time. >> okay. i know. this is very creative. take your sugar. you can do this at home. take food coloring and do about four drops in your food coloring and just like that, boom, boom, boom, boom. and then you seal it up. then you shake it all about. you see, yellow starts. >> i see. >> starts to come out like that. that's how you get your colored shug car. >> quickly show them what it looks like when it is all finished. this is in a black and gold. and that is a who dat kings cake. >> don't forget the baby. >> baby has to be inside there somewhere. all right. good luck to the saints. about bakery in san francisco. >> she is. >> i know, you have to.

thank you for having me. come to bayou bakery. it is easier to buy it than make it, sometime. >> this recipe will be on our website. 11:27. coming up the next half hour, pit the outcome of the primary in new hampshire today, jon huntsman is looking ahead to problems in arizona. we will explain that coming up. >> wondered if thieves have a heart because if there are anything or any way i can get that footage back, i would be happy. >> plus the irrepoliceable memory of -- a thief stole from a local woman. and any snow left quickly melt thing morning. tom kierein tells us how long the mild temperatures will stick ar

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the polls are open in new hampshire for the nation's first primary. mitt romney leads the pack in the latest polls but lost significant support over the last week. miss double-digit lead may be hard to overcome, however, for the likes of ron paul and jon huntsman that are polling second and third respectively. as mitt romney looks to distance himself from the field in new hampshire and solidify his bid important the nomination, he is take something heat from his rival candidates about his

business background. romney was talking about health insurers when he said this. >> i want individuals to have their own insurance. that means the insurance company will have an incentive to keep you healthy. it means if you don't like what they do, you can fire them. i like being able to fire people that provide services to me. >> governor romney enjoys firing people. i enjoy creating jobs. >> i can stand the heat. now we will see if he has broad holders and he can stand the heat. >> i was talking about insurance companies, yeah. we like to be able to get rid of insurance companies that don't give us the service we need. >> romney added that he was trying to distinguish his plan from obama care. republicans say they were -- combative tone the campaign has taken on could hurt the party when it comes to facing off against the president in november. a candidate who has largely stayed out of the fray until this week is jon huntsman. the former utah governor has spent his entire campaign on a good showing in new hampshire

but is still 20 pints points behind in mitt romney the latest poll. he joined ann curry this morning and said with a strong outcome he believes he can be more electable than rom my. >> we started here in new hampshire at zero. and we are moving up with each passing hour. let's see what the results are tonight but i'm -- i can tell you this. if we can move out of new hampshire with a head of steam we will prove the issue of electability which is one thing that will be on the minds of voters in south carolina and beyond. if you can prove that point fund-raising will improve, your organization will strengthen and that's the one thing we must do tonight is beat the marketplace expectation. >> huntsman is suffering a setback in arizona this morning. the state says he failed to qualify for their primary ballot. spokesman for huntsman's campaign says that all of the mess paperwork was submitted and they will challenge that ruling in arizona. a super pack that supports newt gingrich received the largest donation of this election season. billionaire casino magnate

donated $5 million to the winning our future pack in and n what he calls a last act of loyalty to an old friend. he says he plans to spend at least $25 million no matter who the gop nominee is in order to defeat president obama. people living in northeast d.c. will have to wait until may to select a representative to replace disgraced d.c. council member harry thomas jr. last week he resigned before pleading guilty to stealing $350,000 in funds intended for youth organizations and for tax evasion. ing the district's board of elections and ethics has not received thomas' formal resignation letter. until that happens the board won't declare the seat vacant which means the special election would happen may 15. people living in ward 5 met last night for a community meeting that he talked about the special election process. today d.c. council chairman brown will hold an emergency meeting in ward 5. the meet sing at 7:00 and at

metropolitan baptist church on the 1400 block first street in northwest washington. virginia governor bob mcdonnell is pushing for students to start school earlier in his state. he is calling for an end of what's known as the king's dominion law. the law passed back in the '80s says schools can't start until after labor day. it was passed to help the state's tourism industry. mcdonnell says the move will help students keep pace in preparing for national exams. >> it is what's happening all over the world to make young people more competitive. >> mcdonnell also called for the creation of an annual review process for teachers which would remove substandard teachers effectively ending tenure for many of the state's educators. we are going to check in again with tom kierein for the latest on our forecast. tom? >> good morning. we had the sunshine since the fog broke up around 8:00, 9:00 this morning. maybe a little bit of lingering

fog, parts of fauquier and culpeper county. beautiful blue sky, live view from the sky watcher camera and temperatures are now climbing into the 40s just about everywhere. reagan national is at 41. bit of a breeze off the chilly waters in potomac there. elsewhere into the low and mid fourth in montgomery, prince george's counties. the view from space showing increasing clouds coming in from the south and west and those clouds now up into kentucky and southwestern virginia will advance toward us after midnight tonight. and then bring rain on tomorrow. before then, with the sunshine today, we should climb up to around 50 or so during the afternoon. and then as we cloud up after midnight we will bottom out in the mid 30s tomorrow morning. rain likely moving in by around noontime tomorrow and into the metro area. sweeping in from the south and west and then moving through during the afternoon and into the evening on wednesday and then ending on thursday morning. little sun back thursday afternoon. highs near 50. on friday colder weather moves in and cold and dry for the weekend. saturday, sunday and martin luther king jr. day will have sunshine but it will be much

colder. barbara, that's the way it looks right now. >> okay, tom. thanks a lot. there will soon be fewer free handicapped parking spaces in the district. vdot is adding parking meters at hundreds of handicapped spots. officials say too many people are parking in those spots just to get free parking. however, extra red top meters will be installed later this month which will allow people with disabilities to use metered spaces for twice the normal time. a traffic alert, bridge over -- the creek on blackburn road in woodbridge is shut down. so crews can make emergency repairs there. vdot discovered major damage to that bridge yesterday afternoon during a routine inspection. there is no timeline for when the bridge will be reopened, though. in the meantime there are detour signs telling drivers to use route 1 until the bridge is safe to drive on. speaking of driving, we are going to talk about how many folks are out there right now and what the roads are looking

like. >> good morning. lot of folks are kind of sitting on the inner loop of the beltway at arlington boulevard. crews are working, electrical work at the right lane on i-66. as you take the inner loop at i-66, that right lane is blocked and you are jammed starting at broad october. i will give you a travel speed. right now will at 26 miles per hour, pretty slow. crews also working on the beltway at gw parkway. it is blocking the left lane as well as the left shoulder lane. be aware as you are making that commute and crossing over the american legion bridge while there are no problems. outer loop or inner loop as you make your way into montgomery county. now back to you. >> all right. thank you. this morning, a woman is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after she was stabbed multiple times at a loudoun county shopping center. it happened last night at cedar lake plaza in sterling, virginia. a spokeswoman for the loudoun county sheriff's office says the 35-year-old was stabbed in the stomach. she says it was a domestic violence incident, though, not a

random attack. deputies arrested 53-year-old thomas west. he's charged with aggravated malicious wounding. police in manassas are asking for your help in finding a woman who tried to rob a 7-eleven store. they say she tried to rob the 7-eleven on centreville road last month. investigators say the woman pointed a gun at the cashier and demanded money. she ran away without any money when a customer drove up to the store. this morning a montgomery county woman is offering a cash reward to anyone who can help her find a stolen camera. she says that the $50 camera has memories on it in a money just can't buy. news4's jane watrel reports. >> flip camera was in here. >> reporter: she shows the small desk drawer she kept some of our late husband's personal effects. >> drawer where i kept bill's wallet. >> reporter: bill foster died two years ago this week in a small plane crash in connecticut. the former nasa rocket scientist

and energy lobbyist was only 50 years old. >> he was really on the brink ever something wonderful at the time of his death. and i was very proud of him and very proud to be his wife. >> reporter: dealing with the loss of her soul mate has been difficult. but rainey said she was comfort bad short video she took of bill holding a family cat. >> i watched it all the time. i watched it all the time. because it was three days before his death. >> reporter: but the flip cam, similar to this one, containing the priceless video was stolen from the desk drawer when burglars broke into the bethesda home in late december. stealing electronics, jewelry, other personal items. >> least could have taken the pouch but -- they left the pouch. it was adding insult to injury. >> reporter: she is working with police. three other neighborhood holmes were burglarized the same night. >> i just wanted the -- wonder if the thieves have a heart. if they were anything or any way i could just get that footage

back, i would be happy. >> reporter: she says she will offer a cash reward to anyone who can help return the stolen flip cam. a $50 item containing memories money can't buy. in bethesda, jane watrel, news4. >> 11:41 is our time. still ahead, starbucks is offering a new flavor. plus what are your fingernails looking like? they say a lot about your general health. we

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today starbucks is offering an even lighter roast coffee. the new blond roast, not just for blopds, brewed in stores around the country and will be available at packaged coffee stores places where they sell the packaged coffee. the new roast comes in response to more than 50 million americans who answered a starbucks survey saying they want a lighter roasted coffee. if you are a gajet guy or girl, the next high-tech gizmo is coming out any time no consumer electronics show sunday by that las vegas. microsoft announced new nokia and htc titan phones using windows phones software that will be available later this year. plus the smart tv coming up and soon, believe it or not, refrigerators will be able to text you when they are running low on milk. health information screenings and fun activities on tap this weekend at nbc 4's

health and fitness expo. being held at the waller washington convention center in northwest washington. doors will open at 9:00 a.m. and open until 5:00 p.m. both saturday and sunday. and admission is free. we will be waiting to see all of down there this weekend. big gains to start the day on wall street today. let's check in with cnbc's jackie jackie. she joins us with more. >> reporter: we are looking at the markets. they are surging now. we have the dow up by 93 points. the nasdaq is higher by 28. the s&p 500 gaining about 13 points at the moment. meantime alcoa definitely the stock to watch today. aluminum giant kicked off earnings season yesterday after the bell. reporting a loss but sales beat expectations in and the company expects demand to grow this year. americans who are taking on a little more debt again as well. consumer borrowing surged in november to $20.4 billion. largest monthly gain in a decade. people took on more loans to buy

cars and swept their credit cards to buy gifts this holiday season. whale americans are stepping up their spending wages are not keeping up at the same sxas same pace as inflation. so many actually are tapping into their savings or borrowing more as a result. twinkies may have long been -- had a long shelf life. the company that makes them may not. "the wall street journal" reporting hostess brands could file for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as soon as this we can. it would be the second restructuring for the company which also makes favorites like wonder bread in nearly two years. hostess reemerged from bankruptcy last september. >> thank you so much. have a great day. nails often reflect orup health. changes in the nails such as discoloration, thickening, king signal health problems. dr. cheryl burgess joins with us what we can look for and and do about it. good morning. >> good morning. >> first of all, i know this time of year lot of people notice that their fingers are cracking. heels of feet do the same thing.

>> is that a sign of poor health? >> during this time of year we expect to see that in dermatology we see that come in the office on a daily basis. particularly if that cut or that fissure gets keep it can be painful. so there are things that you can do to help alleviate those reactions around the fingers because we use our hands for everything that we do when it can be quite uncomfortable if you have cuts on the tips of your fingers. >> lotions, i guess, do that. >> did you know what really helps is a drop of liquid band-aid into the fissure and it almost heals it within a couple of days. that's what i would recommend. >> okay. i guess on the soles of your feet, too changes in nail color, discoloration of the entire nail or a dark streak under the nails. some people complain of that. what's that? >> that's a big concern. particularly for dermatologists. we try to warn people of those types of signs because they

could reflect something more dangerous like melanoma. that is what is reported that -- bob marlee died of is that he had a health know many a or dark spot on his toe and thought it was a bruise from playing soccer, under the nail. exactly. six months later he was gone. it is really a big concern particularly in skin of color that if you have any streaks on your nails, to definitely let a dermatologist check it out and make sure it is not anything serious. >> what about ridges on your fingerna fingernail? >> that's a sign of aging. everyone will tend to get them probably after the age of 30. it doesn't involve every fingernail or toenail but you will see it on a great number of them. buffing them down with just going to the salon or you can buffet yourself with an emery board, it will take the ridges out what about changes in the nail shape? i mean, you do see occasionally somebody that has a nail that

curls under this way. what's that? >> we call that nail clubbing. sometimes that can reflect internal disease. so if you -- didn't have a clubbed nail to begin with and some people are born with that, you want to go to your doctor and check it out because it could reflect something internal going on. >> what about thinning and thickening of the nails? >> thinning of the nails we see more commonly with the common practice of acrylic nails or gel nail applications that women do want -- on a daily basis. if they decide to go from the artificial or -- acrylic nails back to normal nails, the nails are very, very weak and soft. but they will eventually get back to normal. it is almost impossible to even sometimes pick things up because the nail is so thin. fingernails you will want to think of fungus. which, again, we see probably more commonly in people who have acrylic nails or gel nails

because the application lifts up, water gets under there. it starts this process of organisms growing under the application. >> the whole idea of acrylic nails, is that safe for people to have done? is it a good thing. >> well, it is keeping up the maintenance of it. so that there are no seepage areas under the acrylic. but eventually, yes. it can make the nail very soft like i mentioned earlier as probably one of the main reasons why we see that. >> okay. let's briefly go through a few other. separation of the nail from the surrounding skin, bleeding around the nails. redness, swelling. >> could be infection around the nail, overzealous manicures, pedicures, so no digging, no picking of hang nails or loose tissue around the fingers. that's usually how that starts. it can be a bacterial infection or could just be inflammation. again, seek medical advice, see a dermatologist for that.

>> painting the nails okay? >> make sure they autoclave the instruments. that's what i like to say when you are going out to get your nails done because that's probably the largest component of where i see these infections arising from. people who frequent salons that aren't as sanitary as they should be. >> okay. that's something to keep in mind. thanks so much for coming. >> you are welcome. our time is 11:51. coming up, what angelina joely doing in town today. plus meteorologist tom kierein is back with rain. when is it coming? we will find out. stay with news4 all afternoon. woody harrelson sweet talks

major hollywood star power will be in d.c. tonight. angelina jolie will be here for the premiere of her new movie. the movie is playing at the u.s. holocaust museum. jolie's equally famous husband, brad pitt, rumored to be joining her on the red carpet but that has yet to be confirmed. in the land of blood and honey opens for everyone on friday. rap star jay-z confirms the birth of his newborn daughter in a new song. take a listen. ♪ baby i paint the sky blue

♪ my greatest zploet. >> "glory" made its debut on online yesterday. the child was conceived in paris and he even reveals his wife, beyonce, at one point had a miscarriage. blue ivy was born on saturday. nbc's emmy-award winning hit comedy "30 rock" is returning this thursday for the sixth season. this morning creator and star tina fey who plays liz lemon and january picokski who plays jenna joined matt lauer on the "today" show to talk about what fans can expect this season. >> let's talk about your cash actor. any love interest? >> yes. we are catching up with her in the middle of her year and she's happy and trying to figure out what it is. >> played by? >> jane marsden. >> is this going to be the one? >> i don't know. maybe. >> you know. if you don't know who knows?

>> i don't know. we have -- i don't know. he's a good one. the best it has ever gone for her for sure. >> he is a keeper. >> survive ad trip to ikea. >> which is a challenge. >> "30 rock" premieres this thursday at 8:00 right here on news4. let's take a look now at some of the stories we are following for news4 this afternoon. pat lawson muse joins us in the newsroom with a preview of things to come. pat? >> coming up on "news4 at 4:00," kim kardashian gets bounced out of the super bowl. plus after a decade long slum in music sales the industry is bouncing back. we will take a look at why the music biz is booming again. on "news4 at 5:00," the maryland general assembly will consider dozens of bills this session, including one that involves fantasy football leagues and whether a friendly wager is legal. that story, those stories plus live reports from new hampshire where the voters, of course, are casting their bat on the today in the gop primary. we will see you on "news4 at 4:00."

>> p we have time now for a final check of the forecast. here is tom. >> sunny now in near 50 degrees. we will have a sunny afternoon with highs, low pifts and clouding up tomorrow. rain likely midday and into tomorrow night. maybe lingering into early thursday morning. cold, dry weather moves in friday. through the weekend into martin luther king jr. damon. that's the way it looks. have a great afternoon. >> thanks a lot. 3-year-old girl went face-to-face with a lion that happened at a zoo in new zealand. take a look at this. sophia walker goes nose to nose with a lion. look at that. the lion somehow decided he wanted to get out and get to her. wow. then watch what happens. the 8-year-old lion pawed at the glass. the manager at the zoo says the lion has a history of mood swings. >> likes to play. >> maybe it felt threatened sophia may try to take it.

>> her dad says she wants to go back to the zoo for her fourth birthday next month. guess she wasn't too scared about what happened there on that lion -- went a little bit nuts. that's "news4 midday." we invite to you tune in for more news at 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, and 11:00. we will be back tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. for "news4 midday." until then, have a great day and we will see you in the morning.