>> i'm aaron gilchrest in for jim handly. we begin with the challenge of finding survivors after the cruise ship capsized off the coast of italy. two americans are unaccounted for. >> the company that owns the ship made a public statement about what it believes caused the deadly accident. michelle kosinski reports from italy. >> reporter: the pictures emerging from the costa concordia speak -- scream for themselves. >> people were getting nervous. people were having chest pains. i was having chest pains. i was having anxiety because i don't know how to swim. >> reporter: panicked passengers, desperate for escape. >> trying to put people on the boats. no one was counting. we were screaming saying how many people are on here. then they released the life boats. people were still trying to get on. they were trying, almost falling. >> reporter: search-and-rescue crews today had a tough job. weather conditions were making the ship shift. its submerged side is a hundred feet under water and there is

danger of it sliding farther down a slope. they say they're not giving up until they can reach every single cabin on this ship, make sure no one is still trapped. it was just yesterday they were able to pull the ship's purser to safety. he was trapped more than 36 hours although overnight they did find the body of a sixth victim. among the 15 or so still unaccounted for, two americans, jerry and barbara heil from minnesota. a vigil was held at their church today. it is difficult for people to hear this was not the result of some engine explosion or electrical failure as was originally a possibility but the company today came out and said they believe this was the consequence of human error on the part of the ship's captain. they say he made a decision suddenly to take the ship off course, bring it closer to an island. he is under arrest in jail under

suspicion of manslaughter, abandoning ship, investigators say they saw him onshore while passengers were scrambling to get off. he is defending himself saying navigation systems told him his route was clear and denies abandoning ship. back to you. the field of gop candidates in the race for the white house has gotten smaller. former utah governor jon huntsman has dropped out of the race and he has thrown his support behind front-runner mitt romney. steve handelsman now with a look at how the decision could affect saturday's pivotal primary in south carolina and beyond. >> jon huntsman pulled the plug in south carolina where he was polling last. >> today i am suspending my campaign for the presidency. >> reporter: the former utah governor was beaten in new hampshire by mitt romney, who huntsman endorsed today. >> i believe it is now time for our party to unite around the candidate best equipped to defeat barack obama. >> reporter: with a seven-point

lead in state polls in five days until the south carolina primary, romney hopes conservatives stay split. between rick santorum, who dismissed the huntsman endorsement -- >> well, moderates are backing moderates. >> reporter: and newt gingrich. >> if every conservative votes for me, we will win on saturday by a huge margin. >> reporter: this past saturday evangelical leaders urged christian conservatives to unite behind santorum to try to stop that romney backers launched an attack ad. >> santorum voted to raise the debt limit five times. >> jon huntsman depolice record trecord -- deplored the negativity. >> this race has degenerated into an onslaught of negative and personal attacks not worthy of the american people. >> reporter: but just one week ago in new hampshire the former utah governor personally slammed his fellow mormon moderate. >> governor romney enjoys firing people. i enjoy creating jobs. >> reporter: as huntsman

endorsed him today the front-runner stayed away. he's focused on conservative votes. mitt romney figures if he can win some and the rest of the conservative votes are split in south carolina, he gets his third win and a clear path to the nomination. i'm steve handelsman, news 4. the first family spent this martin luther king jr. day volunteering at a local school. president obama, along with the first lady and malia joined other volunteers at brown education center in washington where they helped spruce up the library. mr. obama said there is no better way to honor dr. king's legacy than to do something for others. he also spoke about the controversy surrounding that quote on the new martin luther king memorial on the mall. >> if you look at that speech talking about dr. king as a drum major, what he really said was that all of us can be a drum major for service. all of us can be a drum major

for justice. you know, there's nobody who can't serve. the quote that some say does not accurately reflect king's words is in the process of being changed now. tonight the president and the first lady will attend the let freedom ring celebration concert at the kennedy center. after an eight-year hiatus the mlk day parade returned to the district this morning. local dignitaries joined local marching bands and onlookers for the festivities in southeast this morning. people also marked the day at the new king memorial for a ceremony. news 4's megan mcgrath has more on all of the events around the district today. ♪ >> reporter: spontaneous singing at the dr. martin luther king memorial as visitors came to honor the man who fought for equality and freedom. >> they have to know that we had a struggle and there was a

purpose and there was some historical content behind people that died for us to be able to have the right to vote, to be able to have the right to stand here today free and not have to walk in the back of the door but come to the front. i think that is very important for them. >> the world would be so different if it wasn't for him. i'm just so thankful for his -- where i'm at right now. the world would be way different. i'm so happy. this generation, he changed it. >> reporter: sandra and barry everet came with their granddaughter jada. >> we understand the struggle that he made and that all people made. that he struggled for all peo e people, not just one group, not one race, not one class of people but for all people. >> martin luther king was an important person because he always did good things for us and he saved our people and we just hope that he didn't die so

soon. >> reporter: this is the first birthday celebration since the new memorial opened back in august. this morning the mayor joined the reverend al sharpton, dick gregory, and others in placing a wreath at the base of the stone of hope. while much has changed as a result of dr. king's work, mayor vincent gray says some things have remained the same. for example the district is still fighting for voting rights, a cause that gray believes dr. king would actively support if he were alive today. >> why is it that the people of the district of columbia should pay federal taxes every day and have no representation or votes in the congress of the united states? why is it that the people of the district of columbia can't decide for ourselves how to spend our own money? well, get ready to bring out your umbrellas tonight and tomorrow. >> storm 4 meteorologist veronica johnson has the wet details. wet details but mild

details. that's what's so important, guys, because after a very cold weekend we're seeing the mercury rise again. we're continuing with the temperature rollercoaster ride. back right now at 40 degrees. much better than the weekend. we were at 39 on saturday. 36 for a high on sunday. so a bit seasonal here today. we do, however, have clouds moving into the area and a bit of wind, too. we've got a current wind chill reading of 32 degrees. check out some of the other numbers. tacoma parks, your temperature now 40 degrees. mount pleasant 40 as well. aspen hill and clarksburg as well as rockville now coming in at 37 degrees this afternoon. good afternoon to you folks, too, in prince george's county. now at 41 degrees. here's the deal. we're not talking about a weather system moving in and some showers that will start developing over the next couple of hours. we're already seeing some light showers just west and north of the area up around cumberland and hagerstown and there could be a few pockets up around washington county up around

frederick county there in maryland that started with freezing rain. same thing for some of the low lying areas. some of the valleys just west. for a brief period of time when this rain comes in could be a little freezing rain switching over to all rain. that's the way it's looking right now. moisture moves into the area. it is going to be wet for tomorrow but at least mild. overnight, we're down to 34 and then up to 39 degrees. so temperatures may dip but they're right up again. we'll talk about how mild it's going to be tomorrow, aaron, and take a look ahead to see which other way the temperatures are going to be heading. i'll have the details in just a few. >> thank you. shock in the northeast washington neighborhood after someone abandoned a baby. the little girl was found late last night outside in the freezing weather naked in front of a house on channing street. that little girl later died. news 4's tracy wilkins talked to the two men who found her. >> reporter: that 1-month-old infant was found here on the steps of this house and for anyone who was out last night or early this morning you know it

was freezing cold. d.c. police are trying to find the baby's mother and starting right here in the neighborhood where the baby was found. >> looked like a toy at first because the legs were dangling out. >> emanuel douger was walking home around 11:30 last night when he discovered a newborn lying naked barely wrapped in a towel on his neighbor's stoop. he called his dad for help. >> i was in shock. i had to grab somebody else to make sure i wasn't something something else. >> reporter: his dad brought the baby in their home, held her to his chest, and tried warming letter with his body heat as they called 911 for help. >> i picked her arms up to see whether she was frozen stiff. no, she wasn't frozen stiff, but she wasn't far from it. >> reporter: he says he tried performing cpr but there was no response. >> i didn't see any signs of life but when they got her into the ambulance they were working on her and i figured she must

have been -- had something going for her. >> her neighbor banged on my door after finding the child and i saw them bringing it out of the house but they rushed it to the ambulance. >> reporter: ian miln a father of two says he was shocked by the grim discovery outside of his yard and even sadder to hear the infant was pronounced dead a few hours after arriving at children's hospital. >> we just saw it, i mean, how bizarre. i guess we keep thinking this. if you want a child cared for there's places, even a knock on the door, and then somebody can take care of it. but it's freezing last night. >> reporter: this morning police were back on the scene looking for additional evidence and asking people who live here if they knew of any pregnant women in the area. meanwhile, people who held this small, frozen infant say it was life changing. >> it tore me apart, literally. i couldn't get no sleep last night. it tore me apart. i have two kids of my own. >> reporter: d.c. police are asking anyone with information to give them a call.

for instance, if you've noticed mom who had a baby about a month ago and no longer has that child you may have information that could be helpful in this investigation. in northeast, i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. coming up at 5:00, we'll hear from the man who lives in the house and the property where that baby was found. when news 4 at 4:00 continues this afternoon, who turned heads on the red carpet and did ricky gervais live up to the hype? billy bush joins us live, next, to talk about the golden globes. and beyonce came up with her own word to describe her body. now an insect is getting the star's name. plus a consumer alert for plus a consumer alert for anyone who's shopped on

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from spielberg to streak, the best in both film and tv were honored last night at the 69th annual golden globe awards. >> access hollywood's billy bush was on the red carpet and joins us live from burbank with the recap of the big night. let's start with the host ricky gervais. did he live up to the hype? >> i think he did. the promos were crazy. the hl fires burning behind him and here he comes. the only way he could have topped last year was if he literally took a grenade and launched it into the ball room. he wasn't going to do that. i thought it was very funny that

jody foster joke about her movie the beaver was hysterical. he took shots at the hollywood foreign press. johnny depp coming out at the end as the first presenter and he turns to him and says so have you seen the tourist yet or not? it was great. it was a way of having johnny there to validate last year's. it was great. he hit it on the head. >> george clooney also took home an award last night. >> george clooney had a big night. he was saying on the red carpet he thought he'd get blanked and he did not. he won best actor for "the descendants" and "the descendants" won for best drama. george is going to be, i think, he's got a full head of steam going into the oscars. he's about 95%, you know, the favorite to win the oscar. he was loose, funny, showed up early on the red carpet. his speech, coloming out with a cane, mocking brad on stage was good. what he said to michael f

fassbender about, well, his gifts in the movie "shame" only clooney could pull it off with such class. it was good. >> and so was "a silent movie" -- "the artist" came away with a big award last night. >> i watched it with five good friends and we sat on the couch. the beautiful thing is you can talk all the way through it because we're all trying to figure out what's going on here. but it is so bold and so new and it really good -- i thought it was a great win for them. they'll be nominated. i think they got a really good chance of winning best picture over "the descendants" because the two categories converged at the oscars and the guy who won for best actor in a comedy or musical was terrific. he came back -- i had some french back in high school so i wheeled it out. we had a little french exchange there. some things got lost in translation, but it was fun. it's a great movie and a big night for them. >> yeah. >> so let me ask you. i know i have an opinion about this.

do you think there was a movie or a star who got snubbed last night? >> i don't think there was a snub because, you know, everybody in those big categories certainly worthy but i was a little surprised that viola davis did not win. >> i'm with you. >> for "the help" best actress. it was brilliant. viola has a great -- they've worked before in a movie called "doubt" a couple years and and viola won the national board of review award. she has gone on to win critics' choice and i thought this would be hers. i still think she has a very good chance, a favored chance to win the oscar. >> interesting. hey, we know you sort of, well, people call you a fashion policeman so to speak. so who are your favorites? >> this is the one area i should really shut up but i can't. i just can't. i really -- after years of doing this i really have strong opinions on this. my three favorites, i'll go with

charlizetherone. she looked fantastic in this dior number. a nice plunge. it really good plunge looks better on a woman with not gigantic breasts. when there's gigantic breasts it's overwhelming and distracting and it doesn't look as good. she was a knockout. >> okay. >> i thought jessica alba was a knockout in that gucci number. i mean, just beautiful color and her skin is so gorgeous. it was classy as can be. angelina jolie, i mean, come on. versace, like an ivory satin sheath with a nice little red touch at the top to match the lips and the clutch. bingo. >> definitely with you on those. anybody just completely lost it, failed miserably on the outfit? >> you know, i'm not that guy to crush anybody. there is a large contingency within our own operation that thinks sarah michelle geller might have missed the mark a little bit. kind of took me back to my grateful dead concert years. looked like a tie dye to me.

>> all right. >> meryl streep with the cowboy look? >> the cowboy top? meryl never hits the mark. she is not a fashion -- i tell you what -- i forgot about this one. just struck me. george clooney said it from the stage. 74 years old jane fonda, i mean, knockout. >> amazing. >> absolute knockout. must be still doing those workout videos or something. >> i thought helen mirran was beautiful, too. >> helen mirran is always a fox. >> all right. thank you. >> we'll see you on "access hollywood" tonight. brad pitt and angelina stopped for ten minutes. we got all kinds of great stuff with them. >> we'll be watching. thanks. you know, beyonce's star power, her namesake really has made it to a new critter in the outback. a newly discovered horse fly was so booty-liscious they named the insect beyonce. a 24-year-old researcher who coined the term for the fly with

the golden bum says he wanted to pay respect to the insect's beauty. booty-liscious was the title of a song beyonce performed as a member of destiny's child back in the day. coming up on news 4 at 4:00 o.j. simpson is still in jail and when he gets out he'll have one fewer houses to go to. we'll explain. plus a dramatic rescue. a mother and her daughters hanging off a freeway bridge.

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it was really chilly out there today to me. >> yeah. >> and the wind didn't help. >> no, it didn't. there were some locations this morning that started out in the teens, well north of us, so a very cold start but today up to 40 degrees. i liked the fact that today is feeling a lot better than it is this weekend. >> true. >> all of us were out this weekend back and forth to the health and fitness expo. >> it was one you walk around like this. keep the shoulders way up there. >> right. not as bad, though, for us as we head through the overnight and certainly tomorrow because we're all talking about a warmup here. and as this precipitation moves into the area there could be a few pockets just north, well west of the area that started out with a little freezing rain,

a little ice. i think that will be between 9:00 and midnight where we could see that. but for most of us we're talking about all rain here. 40 degrees the temperature. we've got a partly sunny sky across the area. 32 degrees the wind chill temperature because of this wind that's blowing at 14 miles per hour. it's out of the south and next couple hours it's going to stay out of the south so, again, temperatures may dip a bit but they're going to head right back up especially after midnight. we're at 37 degrees currently in frederick. hagerstown at 37. these are the locations just up to the north that i think might have a brief period of a little bit of sleet and freezing rain at the onset. then for the valleys well to the west. even petersburg, west virginia at 41 degrees currently. so the area quiet but look at the rain. well off to the west. western maryland down around roanoke. that's advancing off to the east. so i think we'll start to see more showers show up by the time we get to 7:00 and then especially 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 p.m. talking about rain throughout the area and we're at 40 degrees

by 5:00 a.m. so there's your little bit of a warmup. 7:00 a.m. at 42 degrees. it's all liquid everywhere and shouldn't be an issue anywhere for traveling unless you're headed well to the north. i think areas of northeastern pennsylvania and northern new jersey may be a bit icy at times tomorrow. but look at the current reading in raleigh, north carolina. 46. look at cincinnati, ohio. 49. and then look at memphis, tennessee and jackson, mississippi. 67 and 61 degrees. so tomorrow as this rain starts advancing through the area, we are going to be warming up, probably hitting 60 degrees at about 2:00, 3:00 tomorrow. there is your rain early in the day at 8:00 a.m. we get a break. it may be even a chance for some sunshine by the afternoon. it is going to be breezy, too, with the warmup coming into the area. then for wednesday, there it is. mostly sunny. we are brisk, windy, and we are cool. let's take a look at your four-day forecast right now because tomorrow again into the 60s. that rollercoaster ride

continues at 42 degrees on wednesday and back to 38 for a high on friday. so we get rain and then a bit of wind for tomorrow. but at least we're warm. >> 60 looks good. >> very good. >> it's going to feel good. >> thanks. >> you bet. still to come on news 4 at 4:00 a young boy hears a sister scream and runs in for the rescue. we'll tell you how he saved her life. >> plus what you need to know after a popular website was hacked and customer info

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welcome back. i'm aaron gilchrest in for jim handly i'm pat lawson muse. in the news at this hour authorities are looking for the mother of a baby girl found abandoned outdoors last night in subfreezing weather. the baby was discovered on the front porch in northeast. she was naked and wrapped in a blanket. she later died at the hospital. we'll hear from the men who found her. the men who tried to save her life coming up on news 4 at 5:00. rescue operations continue off the coast of italy. at least a dozen people including two americans remain unaccounted for after a giant cruise ship capsized just offshore on friday. six people now confirmed dead from that accident. the cruise ship company has said it believes human error caused that accident. the ship's captain is still

being held in an italian prison. >> jon huntsman has dropped out of the republican presidential race. he endorsed mitt romney today saying romney is the man, quote, best equipped to defeat barack obama in the fall. hundredsman also urged the other republican candidates to stop attacking each other. >> celebrations honoring dr. martin luther king jr. happening across the country today. here in the district the king parade returned after an eight-year hiatus. about 200 groups took part. crowds also gathered at the new king memorial on the mall for a wreath laying ceremony. >> a 3-year-old georgia girl is recovering from injuries that would have been much worse had it not been for the quick action of her older brother. >> this is the story of a little boy who risked his own safety to help his own sister. >> reporter: it all happened here in this kitchen. mom was cooking soup over this gas stove when she walked away for just a minute and her 3-year-old daughter decided to take over. a moment later there were screams. thankfully, big brother heard

them. >> open presents. >> there is joy as little mazie arrives home from the hospital. she is still smiling despite the bandages and burns beneath her dress. along with pain, there is pride. >> now is the first time i've ever saved someone from fire. >> reporter: a first at age 8. ezra was in the next room when he heard the screams coming from the kitchen near the white hot gas stove. he ran, watching his little sisters clothes erupting in flames. >> reporter: so with your bare hands. >> yes. >> you start swatting at her. >> i didn't care what happened. just wanted to get it out. >> reporter: mazie couldn't resist when she saw the pot of soup on the stove. she pulled up a chair and reached for a spoon leaning too close to the flame. >> this is the dress she had on. >> reporter: you weren't worried about catching on fire yourself? >> well, i know you care about yourself but you got to care

about other people, too. >> reporter: his parents aren't that surprised. ezra has six sisters. he's pretty protective. >> on the playground or, you know, when we're at social events, yeah. he keeps an eye out for them. especially the little ones. >> reporter: more often than not at this age big brother loves to pick on little sister. ezra tortures his siblings with tenderness. >> mazie spent the night in the hospital with second-degree burns. doctors say she will make a full recovery. >> zappos an online retailer is trying to figure out how its accounts got hacked. the incident puts 2 million customers' private information at risk. >> reporter: as the online retailer says the website was hacked and the hacker was able to gain access to some of your personal information. now you need to reset your password. this is what the e-mail says, quote. we were recently the victim of a

cyber attack by a criminal who gained access to parts of our internal network and systems through one of our servers in kentucky. now the company says full credit card numbers were not stolen because they are stored separately. but let's take a look at what is affected. zappos says hackers may have accessed customer names, e-mail addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, and the last four digits of your credit card bills. now as a precaution, zappos is forcing customers to reset their pass words. customers can logon to this website right here to do just that. the company also recommends customers who use their zappos pass words on other sites to change those pass words, too. back to you. after years of anticipation, facebook's initial public offering is expected to come sometime in late may. several reports say the company will file within the next month to allow a review by the securities and exchange commission. according to several reports, the social media giant is considering a $10 billion offer

that would value it at more than a hundred billion dollars making facebook more valuable than amazon and hewlett packard. more legal trouble for o.j. simpson who is serving time in a nevada prison. a bank is foreclosuring on his home in florida. simpson bought the house in 2000 for $575,000. court records in miami show the bank filed for foreclosure in september. the former football star and actor is serving nine to 33 years in prison for charges stemming from that confrontation he had with a sports memorabilia dealer at a las vegas casino five years ago. there is a new miss america. her name is laura kepler. she's from wisconsin. >> miss wisconsin! >> the 23-year-old was crowned saturday night at the annual pageant in las vegas. she'll now spend the next year traveling, making personal appearances around the country. she also wins a $50,000 scholarship. there is more to come on news 4 at 4:00. we'll sit down with the founder

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need one. and then this is the part i love. look at all the cars they have. they have all these different cars you can now decide which one you want. even toyota pickup. you know, they have all those cute little mini coupers and audis and the original little prius they started out with. you tell them what you want. i've always wanted to drive one of these little mini coupers. you say you want it and where and it gives you all kinds of reasons why you should be using this obviously. but let me tell you one of the cool things about this is once you have decided and you have made your reservation it will bring up a map that will guide you to the location of your zip car and then as you approach it, you press a button here on the and the car will honk its horn so that you know exactly where it is because there are a million cars that look like these million cars. it will honk the car's horn so

that you know right exactly where it is. because they just kind of blend in in the landscape. secondly, when you get there, there is a remote key on the app that you press and it will unlock the car. i just think that's so very cool. >> that is cool. >> especially for so many people that have moved into the city and don't have a car and, you know, because they can walk and use metro and stuff like that, when you do want a car because you want to go visit someone outside town or something or you want to run some errands, zip car really is a brilliant thing to do. it's environmentally friendly and all this kind of stuff and good for your wallet and now there is an app for that zip car. back to you guys. >> i love that. >> just so i can honk the corn. >> help me find my zip car. >> yeah. >> thanks, wendy. when we come back, news 4 at 4:00, joe paterno talks about what he wishes he had done when told about possible crimes at penn state. >> words with friends has been sweeping the nation so who's the creator behind all of those internet games? >> and don't forget, don't miss

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keep the jackets and umbrellas ready. >> the jackets not the coats like this weekend. like the rest of this winter the warm air ready to make a comeback. it's going to come charging in and charging in fast. let's look and see where we are right now. temperatures throughout the area are in the low 40s. 40 degrees right now reagan national airport. a little bit of a wind so it's giving us a chill feel like factor of 32 degrees. right now your wakeup forecast, let's take you through it. i think we'll see rising temperatures as we go through the overnight from 38 to 39 degrees at 11:00 and then 40 to 42 degrees by 5:00 and 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. so it is going to be wet. more rain coming on into the area around. back out of the way here, and show you the future weather. this is starting with this evening about 7:00 the green. that's the rain. the pink, a few pockets of where there could be some freezing rain or a little bit of ice up to the north but that will be for a short period of time. by 11:00 p.m. midnight the cold

air is out of here. warm enough to keep us just raining throughout the area and then early tomorrow morning 7:30 rain throughout. maybe a little heavier down to the south around quantico and waldorf and by the time we get to about 2:00 or 3:00 tomorrow there's a possibility that we could start clearing out but when we do, that's when the winds will start to pick up. some very warm air, too, again, coming into the area. so we'll hit 60 degrees by about 2:00 or 3:00. i think we could stay at 60, not just for the afternoon but for much of the evening tomorrow. so a mild evening for tomorrow. and then by tuesday night a little bit more in the way of scattered showers coming back into the area but for this evening showers move in. we're on the breezy side. 35 to 40 degrees. then for tomorrow morning, yeah. again, jacket weather. umbrella weather for tomorrow. but not as cold. 36 to 42 as opposed to how we started the day today. very cold. in the low 30s. rain is likely early. the heaviest rain up to the north. we're mild, windy, with some

clearing taking place down to the south. 57 to 63 degrees. up, down, up, down. tomorrow we're going up. by the end of the week we're headed back down. 38 degrees for a high temperature on friday. chance for some, well afternoon flurries on thursday but we're watching that system very closely. so 38 by friday after 60 degrees tomorrow. if you're looking ahead to the weekend right now a slight chance for some showers on saturday with a high of 48 for saturday and 54 for sunday. well, some folks complaining about the cold that we haven't had this winter. we're just all over the place. >> yeah. >> at least for the next two weeks it doesn't look like we'll have any real staying power with the cold air. >> i like it. >> yeah. that makes two of us, veronica. >> yes. >> sorry. >> thanks. are you cultivating crops in farmville? have you scored more than 90 points against an opponent in words with friends? >> if you have you are among the 150 million people who have the company zynga and its founder mark pincus to thank. >> kate snow introduces us to

pincus and takes us behind the scenes of the company that helps to keep us entertained. turning games into a social event is what mark pincus came up with in 2007. >> the whole way we approached games was they were meant to be played between people together. that they were another way to share and connect. >> reporter: take farmville the company's first big hit. players cultivate an online farm with crops, live stock and homesteads. have you ever farmed anything in real life? have you ever owned a plot of land, planted a crop? >> i've never planted a crop but i really would like to. >> reporter: like every game in zinca's stable farmville is free for anyone to play. 150 million people play zynga games every month and most don't pay a penny. fewer than 3% of players ever pay for the special cow or snow covered castle. but those die-hard players spent

enough to push ziynga's revenue to nearly $800 million last year. people are spending real dollars on something that's not real at all. they're spending real money on a virtual cow or a virtual crop. >> or people spend money every day on movies. you watch it. it's an entertainment experience. >> reporter: kate snow, nbc news, san francisco. >> you can see more of the man behind virtual entertainment tonight at 10:00 on "rock center with brian williams" right here on nbc 4. >> all right. coming up on news 4 at 4:00 hanging over the edge until crews can come to the rescue. an incredible rescue coming up next. ♪ he is the great eight on the ice now alex ovechkin is trying his hand at rap.

i'm wendy rieger. coming up at 5:00, the newborn baby of beyonce and jay-z. she has an interesting connection now to california's medical marijuana. buyer beware. liz crenshaw reports on what you should do before you sign up for a gym membership. tonight at 6:00 gas prices have hit historic highs for this time of the year. analysts say it could be a sign of things to come. see you

take a look at this dramatic rescue. a mother and her young daughters were rescued when their vehicle ended up dangling from a freeway bridge. this happened thursday in california after a big rig rear ended their car. the family was pulled out of the car about an hour later. the man driving the big rig was killed when his vehicle crashed into the creek below and burst into flames. california highway patrol says one of the daughters, a 10-week-old baby slept throughout the entire ordeal. unbelievable. ♪ ♪ he's got the rapper's bounce down. there you go. he has the moves. check out washington capitals star alex ovechkin. apparently while he is off the ice he has delved into other fields including hip hop and recently teamed up with the russian rapper to produce this video called "champion."

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the famed college football coach joe paterno is speaking out about the child sexual abuse scandal that has rocked penn state and brought an abrupt end to his career. paterno is in the hospital battling from complications from cancer treatments. michael isakoff reports the 85-year-old coach says he regrets he didn't do more. >> reporter: 85-year-old joe paterno, frail and battling lung cancer, is speaking out for the first time about the events that led to his firing as penn state football coach. >> and then i called my superiors and i said, hey, we got a problem i think. would you guys look into it? because i didn't know, you know? i had never had to beal with something like that. i didn't feel -- >> in an interview with "the washington post" joe paterno said he was confused about what to do in 2002 when a very upset mike mccreary then a graduate assistant first told him he had

seen long-time defensive coach jerry sandusky fondling a young boy in the penn state locker room the night before. paterno reported the incident to athletic director tim curley but acknowledges he never followed up and according to prosecutors sandusky's child abuse continued for at least six more years. i didn't know exactly how to handle it, paterno told "the washington post." in hindsight i wish i had done more. a source close to paterno says he was at first furious when he was fired in a late night phone call last november. but in the interview, he tried to stay positive. >> i've had a wonderful experience here at penn state. i don't want to walk away from this thing bitter. >> and, he insists, he is proud of his record. >> i don't think i deviated from what i am all about and what i thought was important. that is news 4 at 4:00. news 4 at 5:00 starts right now.

tonight on news 4 at 5:00 people who escape that capsized cruise ship near italy have something to say about the captain. one candidate for president with the gop boughs out of the race. and turbulent times? what this month's gas prices signal about the rest of the year. welcome to news 4 at 5:00. i'm wendy rieger. >> i'm pat lawson muse. our top story tonight tragedy in a northeast washington neighborhood after someone abandoned a baby outside in sub freezing weather. the little girl was found unclothed and wrapped in just a thin layer in front of a house on channing street northeast. she was declared dead a short time later. pat collins joins us live now from the neighborhood with the latest on the search for the baby's mother. pat? >> reporter: the medical examiner is still working this case. at this point we don'tno