there are reports at least eight people are dead. others dived to the icy cold sea. one woman said the scene is reminiscent of the titanic. more than 4,000 people were are the coast when the accident happened. >> tonight a local paper is reporting that many passengers were saved by lifeboats, but others are still missing. this cruise ship is tilting by about 20 degrees after it hit a reef near the isala delgiglio near rome. about 200 people were still on board, and rescuers are having a hard time reaching them. helicopters with spotlights have been called in. passengers reported hearing a loud bang before putting on life jackets. weather forecast at the coast at about 37 degrees now. the water is freezing cold. there's also concern about the people who have made it to shore. as locals in the small town try to figure out where to house the

thousands of people on a cold night. we'll update you as we get details. there's a search underway for a student missing from-minute drive. the university police -- howard university. the university police are looking for arian karr, a freshman from california. she flew back to d.c. on saturday. her family says they have not heard from her since. flyers were passed out around the campus tonight. "if you call police, i will shoot your baby," the threat from a man who broke into a house and sexually assaulted a woman this morning. police are working to determine if a serial predator is responsible for three similar attacks in the past four days. jackie benson is live from temple hills. >> reporter: wendy, a big development tonight in today's attack. the car that was taken has been recovered. but first, we want to tell you about an interview, an interview that gives you some perspective on the terror inflicted on these victims. >> my son hasn't been to school

all week. his mother's traumatized. >> reporter: by phone from overseas, the bethesda man whose wife and son were terrorized at gunpoint, a crime in which their housekeeper was sexually assaulted, said the victims feared for their lives. this is the man seen using a debit card stolen from the home. >> pushed her around a little bit and basically said, you know other either you give us -- give me the passcode to your debit card or we'll kill you. >> reporter: chilling words repeated this morning at a house on berkeley street in temple hills, maryland. witnesses say at 9:30 a.m., a relative concerned he couldn't reach the occupants by phone drove there and met a woman who lived there holding a puppy. when she indicated there was an intruder behind the door, the suspect said, "if you call the police, i'll kill the baby." the relative backed away, police were called.

the story sounds eerily similar to how the suspect got into the house in bethesda. >> the victim was warming up her victim when she saw a suspicious person. being concerned, she went back inside her home. but the suspect followed her into the home, as well. >> reporter: an armed robbery in the garage of a home in wheaton on tuesday has been linked to the bethesda crime. as i said, about 7:00 tonight, the white honda civic taken in today's attack here in temple hills was recovered. we're told that the suspect was inside the house here for three hours. an estimated three hours this morning. and that among the several people in the house were children, they were all found tied up. wendy, back to you. >> jackie benson, thank you. the controversial quote etched in stone at the martin luther king jr. memorial will be changed. interior secretary kent salazar gave the national parks service 30 days to find an alternate to

the current quote which reads, "i was a drum major for justice, peace, and righteousness." many thought that suggested a conceit that was not held by dr. king. among those was "washington post" writer rachel mantufol who wrote the original piece supported by maya angelou and others. >> been really heartening to see all of the people sort of come forward and say this is wrong, this is not the way he saw himself. it's wrong for us to represent him that way. >> the national parks service will work with the king memorial foundation and the king family members to come up with an alternative. four republican presidential candidates are deciding tonight if they should appeal a judge's ruling to get on the virginia primary ballot. the judge in richmond ruled against a challenge by newt gingrich, rick perry, rick santorum, and jon huntsman. they had argued that virginia's

through forbids out-of-state residents from collecting signatures violates free speech. right now only mitt romney and ron paul are on the ballot for the march 6 primary in the old dominion. south carolina's primary is just a week from tomorrow, and the latest polls show mitt romney and dproich neck in neck. newt gingrich spent the day campaigning in florida, whose primary follows south carolina. romney stayed in the palmetto state trying to paint himself as a tea party candidate. the former house speaker accused him of killing jobs while running the private equity firm bain capital. >> he claims it would create 100,000 jobs. the "washington post" two days ago reported in their fact check column that he get three pinocchios. now a pinocchio is what you get from the "post" if you're not telling the truth. >> we're in a great and growing movement. some call ourselves conservatives, others say we're tea partiers. >> ron paul, battling santorum for third place in south carolina, is taking another

weekend off. he is back home in texas. midway through january now. parts of new york and new england getting their first significant snow of the winter. buffalo got a bit more than six inches of snow today. a daily record. but it was the wind, gusts up to 40 miles per hour there, that made thing kind of difficult. we had our own share of wind down here. a little chilly out there tonight. doug? >> a little chilly, but nothing compared to what they're seeing toward parts of the great lakes. they're still seeing the lake-effect snow coming through the buffalo area. their biggest snowfall of the season, 6.3 inches. our biggest snowfall of the season, .6 inches. we haven't seen the snow with this cold air. that's the only thing that we have as far as winter concerned, that cold air finally making its way in here. 31 degrees at the airport. 30 in la plata. 27 at leesburg. 2 wi 28 in culpeper. windchills in the teens. i'll let you know when we'll warm up. it may take a while, but we'll

do it. >> thanks. petsmart is apologizing after two dogs left in its care at a local store were attacked. one of the dogs died. that attack happened just days after president obama took his dog bo to that same store. we have more live from potomac yard. >> reporter: imagine dropping your dog off at a pet store hours later only it find out that your dog has been dwaked. >> scary. -- attacked. >> scary. >> reporter: a dog attacked two other dogs at this petsmartment one had to be euthanized. the same store that michelle drops henry off at daycare. >> i feel horrible for the parents of the dog that had to be put down. >> reporter: the same store that received national attention when president obama was there with bo. less than a week later, a inland empire an shepherd owner and the owner two of daschunds dropped their dogs off -- >> the owner of both dachshunds reported an animal attack.

>> reporter: animal control said the german shepherd got out of its case. one of the dachshunds needed stitches. animal control had to euthanize the other. >> both owners were shaken up. the attacking dog owner was very cooperative. she understood her dog needed to be quarantined. >> reporter: petsmart officials say this is a tragic loss, and no words can express their deep sorrow and regret for what happened. in ads, petsmart policies and procedures were not followed, "we take policy violations serious leand, consequently, self of the associates at this location are no longer with petsmart." jennifer flaesh jennifer appreciates that petsmart took responsibility. >> they did the right thing. >> narrator: petsmart is working with the dachshunds' owner at this difficult time. >> thanks. former penn state football coach joe spartan in the hospital. doctors admitted him to the hospital this afternoon for observation because of a

complication from cancer treatments. paterno is 85 years old now. he was diagnosed two months ago with a lung cancer. he was fired from penn state back in november after the jerry sandusky sex abuse case came to light. academy award-winning actor gene hackman is out of the hospital after getting hit by a truck in the florida keys. hackman's publicist said he was riding eye bia bike when a truc bumped him from behind. he was thrown on to a shoulder. he was airlifted to a hospital but later released. a man suspected of killing a woman named natalee holloway is going to prison but not for her murder. his name is joran van der sloot. he was sentenced to 28 years in prison in peru. he could be released, though, in only nine years. joran van der sloot pleaded guilty to killing a young woman he met in lima in 2010. that is not her, that was natalee holloway.

joran van der sloot remain the prime suspect in the death in 2005 of natalee holloway on the island of aruba. a celebrity chef widely criticized for her hearty high calorie southern meals could be suffering from type-two diabetes. paula dean has been silent about rumors that she's been diagnosed with diabetes. according to published reports, she's kept that health condition a secret but is reportedly going public about the diagnosis soon. she will speak exclusively with al roker tuesday on nbc's "today" show. coming up tonight, part two of wendy's look back at the air florida crash 30 years ago. hear about the hero that dove into the freezing potomac river to pull the last survivor to safety. a job fair held for men and women that many consider the backbone of america's military. and we're going to show you something that's happening up in

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a job fair was held today, a first of its kind designed to help find work for the spouses of military members. washington, d.c., has the largest population of military spouses in the nation. many say it's been difficult to find work because of gaps on their resumes. services available at the job fair today included career counseling, makeovers, and help with resumes. it was 30 years ago today

that air florida flight 90 crashed into the 14th street bridge and plunged into the potomac river killing 78 people. last night we told you about the dramatic rescue of the five passengers who survived. tonight we want to tell you about the people who made that day so remarkable. january 13, 1982, was a day of surreal moments. the blizzard traffic, the news, a plane, the river, a 737, survivors, lenny scudnik, and the cast of people who came together to make history. air florida had taken off from national airport with ice on its wings. pilot error caused the plane to stall on liftoff. and it hit the 14th street bridge, plunged head first into the frozen potomac. the tail section broke off, freeing five survivors from the wreckage. >> and you saw a piece of wreckage with about four or five people clinging to it. about four people i guess at that point. there was nothing there that looked like an airplane.

>> camera manchester panzer was the only camera crew nearby that day. everyone else was stuck in traffic. he arrived just as the rescue was unfolding. >> it was painful being there. you just wanted these people out of the water as quickly as possible. >> above, in eagle 1, pilot don usher and rescue technician gene windsor are trying to rescue five people with just a rope. >> we were in the stone age of rescue equipment, yes. >> they were also relying on usher's experience flying in vietnam. he had to maneuver like a cowboy, keeping the chopper out of the water and trying not to decapitate bystanders as he brought the victims to shore. >> we still had people on the bank, and the rotor system of our helicopter was just barely above their heads. >> the video is riveting. and it's heartbreaking. one of the most searing images, the last victim, priscilla tarato, broken by the crash, weakened by hypothermia, blinded by jet fuel.

her baby and husband dead in the wreckage below. and the rotor wash from the chopper is drowning her. panzer says he almost put his camera down. >> i'm thinking, this woman's going to drown in front of me. and i thought, this is not right. i thought, i should not be shooting this. this woman's going to die in front of me. >> and that's when lenny skutnik became a household name. in a glorious moment, he ripped off his cowboy boots and jumped in to rescue tarato. he wasn't the only one. before the chopper and the camera arrived, roger olian, on the other shore, had jumped in with a rope and tried to get to the victims. the cold drove him back. >> i thought, well, if they can see somebody coming out, maybe they can hold on a little longer until somebody actually can do something. fortunately, that's what happened. >> so where are they now?

olian, a retired sheet metal work for st. elizabeth's hospital, is a tree trimmer. skutnik is retired in lorton, awaiting his first grandchild. he refused to be interviewed but panzer met him for dinner. >> lenny's camera shy. he certainly never wanted to be a star. >> chopper pilot usher went on to become a lawyer. his technician, gene windsor, retired recently after suffering a stroke. the survivors do few interviews these days. two of them died in april of 2002 within days of each other from illness. air florida is little known to newer generations who should know that aviation is safer because of new rules imposed start of that crash. and we need to mention that arlen williams also survived that crash, but he was trapped in the wreckage and drowned when it sank. he handed the rescue rope to others knowing that he could not

get out. and the 14th street bridge was renamed in his honor. >> a day that those of us remember will never forget. >> hard to believe t's been 30 years. >> indeed. what's up out there, man? >> a little cold out there. you know, middle of january -- >> yeah. supposed to be. >> you kind of expect that. >> it's than bad. considering it's the middle of january. >> right. we could be into the teens this time of year now. we're in the 20s. even a little above 30 across part of the area now. the windchills, though, do still play a factor out this. and right now, those are in the teens. outside, you can see exactly what's going on at the airport this evening. we are looking at clear skies across the area. those clear skies will allow temperatures to start to fall. look at the numbers, across the area, high temperature today, believe it or not, 51 degrees. and you say 51 -- how could that be possible? well, that was just after midnight. and then we saw a 15-degree drop going down to 36. that was the temperature at about 6:00, 7:00 in the morning. we went back up a little. now we're coming back down.

the current low is now 31 degrees. that is the one that will go down in the books today. winds out of the northwest at five miles per hour. we do have a little windchill out there. bigger windchills, though, in other locations as we're still seeing winds gusting over 10 to 15 miles per hour. 27 in gaithersburg. 27 in leesburg. and it 2 in fredericksburg. not bad, right? take a look at the windchill. if frederick, 20. gaithersburg, sitting at 14 degrees. that's the way it feels outside. martinsburg, 13. winchester at 17. culpeper now coming in at 22 degrees. and patuxent river and annapolis now also at 25 degrees. so we do have the cold air out there. but not the coldest air. we've been on the breezy side of things. the coldest air, though, has remained to the west. elkins, west virginia, at 18. 19 in pittsburgh. that cold air just cannot make its way over the mountains. cold air, more dense tends to fall down. and it's not able to make its way over the mountains. warm air, however, will make it very easily over the mountains. that's what we're hoping happens maybe on monday and into

tuesday. warmer air coming in. storm 4 doppler radar showing shower snow storm activity toward pittsburgh and state college, paback toward charlest and west virginia. a great weekend for skiing. may not seem natural snow in many locations, but they're making snow out there now. windy and cold across the area today. tomorrow, we'll see some sunshine, maybe a little bit breezy from time to time. but really, just going to be on the cold side. as long as you bundle up with sunshine, it won't be all that bad at all. tomorrow morning, mostly clear, a chilly start, 23 to about 28 as we move through the day. we'll see sunshine, a little breezy, still chilly. 34 to about 37 degrees with the winds at 10 to 15. that will keep our windchills in the 20s just about all day long. the good news here is, yes, we're going to stay cold on sunday. so the weekend's a chilly one. we warm up once again rapidly. it's been one of those winter. 46 on monday, 5 on tuesday. -- 55 on tuesday. that ahead of a system that will bring us rain during the day on tuesday. guess what comes behind that --

colder air once again. the average high, 43. i think some of those days next week may be below average. hey, there's at least two above average. so there you go. >> the winter we're seeing so far -- >> not complaining. >> thanks. ahead, a decision by the redskins about ticket prices for the next year. >> coming up i

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caps on the ice at verizon. how we looking? >> another sellout, another victory. that's solid. here's a public service announcement. if you decide to toss your hat on to the ice after a player scores three goals at verizon center, don't worry -- you can proceed to customer service and get your hat back. isn't that nice? hats off to forward troy brower as the capitals take down tampa bay. all-star alex ovechkin always plays well against the lightning. 26 career goals against tampa bay. here's number 27. first period on the power play. ovechkin with a nifty snapshot. that beats dwayne rollis, take another look. wow, 18th of the season. capitals in front 1-0. later in the first, same score.

caps on the power play again. and they convert again. to troy brower's side of the net, he goes five hole. see it again. brower from a tough angle. caps on top 2-0. i know, isn't that sweet? brower far from done. second period brooks like grabs the puck. fires on net, rebound to brower. he shoots and scores. another look at it here. braugher just in the right place at the right time hanging out. 3-0 capitals, but it's not over. one minute to play in the third. caps holding on to the 3-2 lead. empty net for tampa bay. chips it ahead and thank you very much. it's brower's first career hat trick. the capitals edge the lightning 4-3, winning their sixth in a row at home. washington now within two points of first place in the division. coach dale hunter, what do you think about that guy? >> he's hard it play against. he's a tough -- tough guy.

and also he's got skills. so it's -- you know, one of them players combinations that every coach like. and by staying in front of the net, you know, ove shoots it pretty hard. it's -- he's been doing it well for us this year. and screening and also going in the dirty paint and getting good goals. >> reporter: up next for the capitals, a home game on sunday against carolina. friday the 13th was scary for the wizards but really almost every night is scary for the wizards. tonight, washington playing the first of back-to-back games against the 76ers. let's hope saturday the 14th isn't as bad. rookie chris singleton and the wizards looking good early. singleton was the acc defensive player of the year at in state. playing good defense in the nba. forces the turnover, gets the steal. keeps himself, takes it strong to the bucket for the dunk. youngster looking good. but the wizards trail by 14 at the break. third quarter, kevin serafin

with the ball, the ball stolen. he's good. throws it down. philadelphia up by 21. it get worse. john wahl tries to go inside. picked off. the wizards commit 18 turnovers. drew holliday to jody meeks, smooth. he buries it. philly outscores washington 38-18 in the third quarter. fourth quarter, if the 76ers score 100 points, fans get free big macs. the shot from deep, mctasty. meeks was 6-7 from beyond the arc. the wizards lose big, 120-89, dropping the record to 1-10. ouch. >> ugly. that hurts. >> thanks. we want to update you the cruise ship that is taking on water off the coast of italy. coastal cruises confirms the evacuation now of about 3,200 passengers. 1,000 crew members. a statement just released by the

company, that's a picture of the shipt li ship listing there, says the position of the ship has worsened making the last part of the evacuation more complicated. there are reports some passagers jumped off the ship into the cold waters and tried to swim to shore.

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there's some good news for redskins fans. you'll get a break. the team announced today ticket prices for next season, they won't be going up. this is the seventh year in a row that the organization has decided to freeze ticket prices. there's an important playoff game tomorrow between the denver broncos and the new england patriots. there are some witches up in massachusetts who are trying to ensure a new england win. pats quarterback tom brady recently was on the cover of "sports illustrated." you know what that means, right? he's jinked. that's the way it goes. >> yep. >> the witches in salem made a tom brady doll stuffed with herbs and stones to help bring

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