good morning and welcome. i'm eun yang in for barbara harrison. this tuesday, january 17, 2012. new today at midday the american civil liberties union is suing metro transit police after the violent arrest of a man in a wheelchair. lawyers just announced the legal plans of the u.s. courthouse in northwest washington. news4's megan mcgrath was also there and joins us live with the latest. megan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that arrest was made back in may. and youtube video that came -- surfaced after the fact had many questioning whether the police went too far, whether they used

excessive force. but this lawsuit is not about that. it is not about what the police did with respect to the disabled man in the wheelchair. this is a free-speech case. the aclu says the police violated the rights after witness when they arrested him when all he was doing was questioning what they were do g doing. the incidents was captured and posted on youtube. metro police are shown pulling a man from a wheelchair and throwing him to the ground. the officers said the disabled man was loud and belligerent. lawrence miller witnessed the incident and he was also arrested. miller says all he did was ask the police questions about what they were doing. >> i never saw any -- i did not assault anyone. i believe my conduct, it was as any concerned citizen would be. just to say something p putt know, if you see something. metro's not so if you see something, say something. i said something. i was arrested. >> reporter: the aclu says

miller's first amendment right to free speech was violated. that he had every right to question police. the group today filed a lawsuit against one of the metro transit police officers. >> this case suggests that the metro police force needs some training, some time back in school to learn that the first amendment covers them. that is that citizens can speak to police in the street and can question and make comments. >> reporter: metro does not comment on cases under litigation. but a spokesperson says that the u.s. attorney's office reviewed the actions of the officers and did not file charges. the officers are back on regular duty. charges against miller were dropped but the aclu says that's not good enough. they say they should never have been filed in the first place. the suit does seek damages. money for lawrence miller but does not specific tie a particular amount. that would be determined by a

jury. >> megan mcgrath, live in northwest washington for us. thank you. the so-called occupy congress movement is much smaller than expected. this is a look at that time protesters marching on pennsylvania avenue this morning. about 75 demonstrators showed up for the rally outside of the capitol. organizers were hoping an upward of 2,000 protesters would take part in the event. members of the occupy movement are protesting economic disparities. 11:03. turning to the weather and rainy but mild day ahead. roller coaster ride of a weather pattern and january. tom kierein in the storm center with the first forecast. hi, tom. >> hi. it continues today. we had that rain this morning. we had about a quarter of an inch of rain. now a lot of has tapered off and temporarily ended. i think the bulk of the rain is pretty much over. although we have a few more other showers coming in out of the mountains and shenandoah valley. that moving color is rain. still getting light rain in montgomery county, prince george's county and farther east and into anne arundel, calvert and charles and st. mary's, northern neck and eastern shore. much of northern virginia now is

drying out temporarily. temperatures right now as we are just past 11:00 now, near the mid 50s. just to our south. culpeper, fredericksburg, charlottesville, warrenton, into the mid 50s. and it is still in the 40s around washington and montgomery, arlington, fairfax, prince george's counties, as well as the district of columbia. right near the bay, though, near 50. for the rest of the afternoon, maybe a few more periods of some lighter rain. and temperatures warming up here, too. mild air to our south should make its way farther north to the metro area. and we ought to make it up to 60 degrees in the next few hours. southwesterly breeze as well. lot of the rain should be ending by later this afternoon. look at a cold change coming our way. once again. down we go on the roller coaster ride. tomorrow we will look at that the rest of the week and the weekend in just a couple of minutes. >> all right, tom. thanks so much. let's get at least one person is dead after a lee-vehicle crash in frederick county, maryland. this happened this morning on

maryland route 75 south of jones road in liberty town. no word on what caused the crash. we are still waiting on the name of the victim to be released. let's check the midday traffic now. dan allege sealock joins with us the latest. danella, good morning. >> good morning. it is still pretty much a mess in some of our areas. outer loop of the beltway, connecticut avenue. accident takes up the left shoulder lane. it is a multivehicle crash here. police are on the scene. you are slow as you make your way towards connecticut avenue on the outer loop of the beltway. also still seeing the accident. this time in the hov lanes. it is blocking the left lane. rest of the lanes are open. i'm not seeing a problem for you traveling northbound on i-9 a. on the rails, delays on the red line. metro single tracking from friendship heights all the way to van ness. single tracking on the orange line between ballston as well as clarendon. >> danella, thank you. new at midday, prosecutors say that the driver accused in the deadly pedestrian accident in

alexandria had a blood alcohol level nearly twice the legal limit. police say 22-year-old victor's blood level was . 15 when he drove his car off duke street through i-95 sunday afternoon. the legal limit is .08. he hit 8-year-old brian hernandez chavez and his mother. his mother survived with two broken legs and a fractured pelvis. brian died. family members say their heart is broken. >> sad. very sad. >> sad that he's gone. he was a little brother to me. it is terrible see thing. >> he's being held in custody and due back in court next month. right now, police are looking for the parents of a week old baby who died outside in the sub-freezing temperatures. you saw the breaking news first on 4 yesterday morning. police say a man found the baby girl on the steps of a home on channing street in northeast washington. she had no clothes and was wrapped in only a thin blanket.

the man who found the baby tried to warm her up and perform cpr. paramedics rushed the baby to the hospital but it was too late. police are asking for anyone with information to come forward. the man accused of three violent home invasions in montgomery and prince george's counties will be in court for a bond hearing this afternoon. kevin ray and an accomplice robbed lee holmes in wheaton, bethesda, temple hills, last week. they say he sexually assaulted two women and tied up six people including a 7-year-old who were home at the time. over the weekend, police tracked down ray in north carolina use something of the victims' stolen credit and debit cards. the authorities then transferred him to our area and police are still looking for the second man involved. police are looking for three men who robbed an armored car by gunpoint. it happened yesterday morning at the walmart in the 3300 block in bowie. this is security video showing the armored car guard walking out of the store with a sack of money his hand when a man

wearing a ski mask and holding a gun snatches it. police are looking for the getaway van seen in this video. if you recognize the van or the men, call prince george's county police. 11:07 is your time now. 46 degrees. more bodies recover order a cruz ship that ran around off the coast of tuscany. plus the captain in court. we will have the latest. paula deen opens up about her health. why she hid the condition 37 what she is doing now to help

welcome back. the rescue efforts are ongoing this morning aboard a partially submerged concordia off the coast of italy. sadly five more bodies have been pulled from the luxury liner. bringing the death toll to 11. a special diver searched the ship for some of the 26 people still missing. we have also learned that the captain has been formally charged with manslaughter, shipwrecking and abandoning the ship. now the actions of the crew in

those fateful hours are coming under increasing scrutiny by those who survived the crash. news4's angie goss joyce us with more. carnival cruz lines is thanking their employees this morning for acting bravely during the disaster. but a scene of complete across is how passengers described the moment they found out something was wrong. it all may have been caused by a captain wanting to show off his luxury vessel. the captain took the concordia off course and he wanted to give the passengers a closer look of the island. that's when right about here, he hit a rock that he says wasn't on the navigation map. he then proceeded to go up north and then make a you-turn to save the ship from sinking where he brought it down closer to the island where it ran aground. that's where he beached it. it remains right now on its side. halfway under water as divers continue to search for bodies. some of the 4200 passengers swam or took lifeboats to safety or rescued by helicopters.

two americans are among those still missing and survivors still shaken told the "today" show's ann curry that it was out of control. >> the crew was never informed. i can't blame the crew because they were never -- they did not know anything. i was trying to find out where the life dash are the lifeboats, does anyone speak english? they did not give us any information whatsoever. they told us to go back to our room. >> the cruise company blames the can't tan saying he deliberately went off the course toward the island and deep fending himself and said he didn't abandon the ship but new transcripts reportedly show conversations between him and the coast guard that indicate different. if convicted, prosecutors say he could face up to 15 years in police son and we learned the second black box from the ship has been found. more data that could help determine how the disaster unfolded. eun? >> angie gof. president obama will deliver his acceptance speep for the

democratic nomination in front of 74,000 people. right now democratic national committee chairman schultz is announcing the speech will place to the home of the carolina panthers. they are hoping to replicate the atmosphere of the 2008 convention and he accepted his nomination in denver. he will accept the nomination on september 6. as far as the republicans everyone teamed up against front-runner mitt romney in last night's debate. they talked about everything from tv ads to tax records. nbc's tracy pots reports. -- tracie potts reports. >> reporter: slammed for heading an very many firm of mass layoffs. he will consider releasing his tax records this spring. >> i have nothing that suggests will is any problem and i'm happy to do so. >> mitt, we need for you to release your income tax so the people of this country can see how you made your money.

>> reporter: some of the sharp pest exchanges in the fox news channel debate involved negative ads like ron paul's on rick santorum. >> i only have one problem p.m. i couldn't get all the things in i wanted to say in one minute. >> reporter: newt gingrich versus romney. >> probably the biggest hoax since big foot. >> reporter: the ad romney's political action committee attack ran against santorum. >> if i had something supporting me that was inaccurate i would go out and say stop it. that you are representing me and representing my country. stop it. >> that's, as you know, something which is completely out of the control of candidates. >> without it nice if governor romney would exercise leadership on his former staff and major donors to take falsehoods off the air. >> reporter: those ads are now saturating carolina airwaves with the primary just four days away. in the debate there were also sharp disagreements on whether the u.s. can indefinitely detain terror suspects. mitt romney says yes. ron paul says not if they are

u.s. citizens. rick santorum points out citizens have the right to appeal. tracie potts, nbc news, washington. virginia's attorney general is urging a federal appeals court to keep rick perry and three others off the state's republican primary ballot. he sued when he did not collect a required 10,000 voter signatures to get on the ballot. perry has already lost one a. the toenchlg says controversial laws that perry challenged have no bearing on him being kept off the ballot. today some members of congress are back at work. the house returns to business today after a lee-week holiday break. they will tackle key issues in 2012. including whether to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. and how to pay for both. at the same time, they will look to trim the budget deficit with major differences between republicans and democrats on all those topics, it could be another heated session. the senate reconvenes on january

23. the new legislation also give congress an opportunity to repair their image. new poll out this morning by cnn shows only 11% of americans approve of how congress is handling its job. 86% disapprove. that is an all-time low for the cnn poll which previously hit a record low of 14% last august and at the end of the bitter debt ceiling debate. wikipedia will black out the english language version of its website to protest anti-piracy legislation under consideration in congress. the website says it will go dark for 24 hours starting at midnight on wednesday. the website is protesting the stop online piracy act and protect intellectual property act. the bills are designed to crack down on sales of pirated u.s. products overseas. supporters including the film and music industry say the legislation is needed to protect the intellectual property and jobs. critics say could it hurt the

technology industry and infringe on free speech rights. 11:17. tom kierein joins us now. oh, my goodness. up and down and up and down. i was shivering yesterday from the cold and wind. and now we are taking off our jackets. >> it is going to feel like springtime later this afternoon. sunshine is breaking out across parts of northern virginia and it is -- it has a bit of a spring feel in the air now after morning showers. and, yes, yesterday was wintry cold. weekend was wintry cold. seemed like almost event ray day goes by is markedly different the day before. cloudy in washington. at reagan national, a chilly 45. breeze coming up off the potomac river where the water temperatures are in the mid 40s. as a result it may stay chillier there at reagan national with that southerly wind. the radar here over the last hour showing much of the rain now pulling to the east of washington. this is all rain. the areas in yellow. coming down hard in howard county now and right along the bay and on the eastern shore continuing to move east. farther west, though, we are getting sunshine breaking out across northern virginia, parts

of the shenandoah valley, farther west from there, there are a few showers out of the mountains of west virginia. where temperatures are into the 50s now in many locations. and it is into the 50s across much of northern virginia now from near manassas and farther down to the south. points from near warrenton to culpeper, fredericksburg, shar lotsburg, mid 50s. pax river, southern maryland near 50. near the bay waters in the upper 40s in most locations. now over the last 12 hours, the bulk of the more moderate rain we had earlier this morning way up off the north and east. sunshine is break out in parts of loudoun county into fauquier county. and not just coming into western spotsylvania and stafford counties, points west, culpeper, rappahannock county. sun may break out later this afternoon, few more showers coming through as we go forward here into wednesday, though, a drying trend and it is going to turn cold again tomorrow. so the roller coaster ride continues out mountains, too, of

western maryland and west virginia, maybe a few snow showers late on wednesday. as we get into thursday, sun in the morning. then some clouds quickly closing in. and more changes are on the way. so for the rest of today, we will have brightening of the eye and maybe a few more areas of some passing showers coming in. it is going to be rather breezy, too, that southerly and southwesterly wind, gusting to around 20 miles an hour. yes, it may make it up to 60 degrees, even around the metro area. especially points to our south, southern maryland and from southern fairfax county down 95, fredericksburg, towards charlottesville, warrenton, that area, may get up into the low 60s in a few isolated spots. sunset at 5:12. you cloudy and cool this evening. should be mostly cloudy. in the mid 50s early evening. then down to around 50 degrees by midnight, and then by dawn tomorrow, it will be near 40 degrees. that may be the high temperature for the day wednesday. bit of a blustery wind tomorrow, too, as we get some sunshine back. and then that temperature will

fall zbradly throughout the day and into the 30s during the afternoon. and then all the way down to around 30 degrees after sunset. then it will continue to drop wednesday night down to near 20 degrees by dawn on thursday. thursday looks like a cold day. increasing clouds during the day. highs reaching just around 40 degrees. and then late thursday afternoon and during the evening hours, will is a small chance of a few flurries, maybe just to our north and a weak disturbance coming through. sun back and another cold day on friday. near 20 in the morning, afternoon highs mid 30s. chilly into the weekend, too. saturday looking like we could get some rain and there may be pockets of freezing rain early saturday morning and west to north. chilly and damp day on saturday. then sunday, monday, sun back and warming up a little bit. actually going to be feeling wintry cold now beginning tomorrow for an extended period. unlike the up and down we have seen. >> little bit of stability then. >> yes, it is. settling down. >> thank you, tom. let's check on the midday traffic once again. dan allege sealock joins with us

the latest. good morning. >> good morning. outer loop of the beltway, connecticut avenue, seeing the accident taking up the left shoulder lane. good news is that tow truck on the scene. if you are on the inner loop of the beltway just be aware at connecticut avenue, have a vehicle in your left shoulder lane as well. so other than that, it looks good because they are not blocking the roadway. that's a sign of relief. traveling on 66 looks good. fairfax county parkway eastbound your lanes are open. connecting yourself to the beltway and heading inside on 66, no accidents in either direction east and west looks good. >> thank you. 11:22. still ahead, forget street drive didn't thru. which local fast food restaurants will come to your door? plus, it is time to start thinking with what summer camp you will send your child to this year. we will show you how a new web cited is making the process a bit easier. and avoiding problems at your favorite nail salon. safety measures you should take. first here is a look at what's hot on nbcwashington.com.

lindsay lohan is back court today. second probation report. she is reporting for work at the county morgue and attending

therapy sessions. this morning, popular tv show paula deen says she has type ii diabetes. she found out three years ago that it is just now that she's talking about it. she explain her decision to al roque ier on the "today" show this morning. >> i came home and told my children and i told my husband. i said, i'm going keep this close to my chest for the time being. because i had to figure things out in my own head. i had to give time to -- to think about and it talk with my doctor because, al, at the time, you know, i tell everything. >> right. >> i could have walked out and said hey, y'all, i have been digs with type ii diabetes. and walked away. i had nothing to give bp -- give. what do you say to people she delayed this because this would damage her reputation, her whole industry that she has built on this -- on this kind of cooking.

>> people are not going to quit eating. >> dean launched a new program called diabetes in a new light. the website offers recipes and tips on living with type ii diabetes. the next time you want delivery you may want to try a burger from burger king. the fast food chain is adding delivery service to some of its locations to germantown burger kings along with one in gaithersburg and one in springfield testing out the home delivery service. there is a $10 minimum. and a $2 delivery fee. burger king says it came up with special thermal packaging technology to help keep your food fresh and similar to many pizza places, burger king promises delivery within 30 minutes. 11:27. coming up in next half hour, maryland's blue ribbon schools plus a rescue you have to see. how incredible luck played a role in saving a mother and her daughter's dangling off an

overpass. a mild day ahead but will it last? where's the ride of the weather roller coaster continuing? tom kierein back with answers. i just had it with cable. it just got more frustrating and frustrating. a lot of times, the picture would break up.

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right now on "news4 midday," five more bodies pulled from the cruz liner costa concordia off the coast of italy. the total now to 11. the captain has been formally charged with manslaughter and abandoning the ship. the american civil liberties union has filed a lawsuit against metro transit police after a violent arrest of a man in a wheelchair. officers arrested lawrence miller who witnessed the incident last may and questioned police about what was happening. the aclu says his first amendment right to prespeech was violated. georgetown is getting new security cameras in hopes of stepping a rise in crime. the citizens association of georgetown is in the process of installing cameras throughout the neighborhood. what's already in -- one is already in place and the plan is to install as many as 15 of them. according to d.c. police, there was a 14% increase in property crime in georgetown last year. today two d.c. council

members will introduce a new bill that places limits on the number of medical marijuana facilities that can go in any particular ward. council members vincent orange and marion barry are backing the plan. it says only five marijuana cultivation centers and two dispensaries could be permitted in any single ward. right now the d.c. department of health plans to issue up to 10 cultivation registrations and five dispensary registrations without ward by ward guidelines. ward 3 councilman shea is the later of a limbaugh rant. the rant about how liberal washington is. he referred to shea as bait. >> this mary babe, cheh, behind the plastic bag tax. >> cheh supported the bag tax. another member introduced the bill. limbaugh was doing law on her humane extermination law in relation to occupy d.c.'s rat problems. 11:32.

let's check in with tom kierein for the latest the forecast. rainy out there, tom. >> yes. lot of the rain has tapered off and ended around the metro area. touch of spring in the air. especially in virginia. that's where the sky watcher camera is looking into fairfax county on the horizon. the sky has brightened there. actually beyond the horizon, there is some sunshine. still it is all cloudy throughout the metro area. where the sun has broken out it hit the 50s. culpeper up to 55. fredericksburg, charlottesville, stanton, virginia, mid 50s. and parts of the fauquier county up into loudoun county some sunshine beginning to break out as well. and that should begin to move perhaps up towards the metro area and another hour or so. we ought to get the shine breaking out locally. it won't last long. there are some other clouds with some other showers farther to our west. we will get a strong cold front coming in later tonight. maybe with a quick line of showers coming through. temperatures up around 60, though, with a little bit of the sun breaking out over the next couple of hours. then it is going to get cold. near 40 tomorrow morning. that will be the high for the day wednesday.

getting colder throughout the day. during the day wednesday with a blustery wind. then a cold pattern for thursday, friday into the weekend. maybe chilly rain on saturday. that's the way it looks now. >> tom, thank you. metro track work started today. may cause you delays. trains are single tracking between van ness and friendship heights from 10:00 to 2:00 m. on the orange line trains are single tracking. the work will continue through friday. crews will be doing repairs after 10:00 p.m. through thursday night on various parts of the red, orange and blue lines. this mother -- this morning, a mother and her two daughters are alive after a dramatic rescue with all of the makings of a hollywood movie. nbc's mike taibbi reports. >> reporter: it was the kind of action that makes you avert your eyes. how can there be any survivors? it happened last thursday afternoon on a curved stretch of california highway 101. north of santa barbara. a small car, bmb sedan, mangled

beyond recognition. the other vehicle is a big rig truck in a ravine 100 feet below, the driver, charles allison, killed. police say the truck rear ended the car. >> the bmw was then forced into the center concrete wall where the three parties in the bmw became trapped in the vehicle. >> reporter: trapped and alive. the shredded car over the ravine over 100 feet below. a first grade teacher said her daughter and 10 week old myla. the air bags did their jobs. dozens of first responders, fire, rescue, hazmat teams did theirs while facing multiple dangers to themselves and car's october pan. >> i each time we tried to pry her out of the car, kept slipping over the side a little bit more. >> reporter: an amazing stroke of luck. a team of navy construction workers just happened on the

scene. in their convoy, heavy duty forklift with a telescoping arm. exactly what was needed. >> extremely lucky. we were really lucky they were there and offered to help. >> reporter: now the wreck stabilized and the victims could be extract. the girls first, saved with a stuffed doll on her chest. baby myla with finer injuries and her mom. she had been calm and cooperative. along with her two daughters, almost miraculously alive. mike taibbi, nbc news, los angeles. let's check the midday traffic. danella sealock joins with us the latest. rough morning. things settling down? >> a lot better. let's check travel speeds. traveling route 15 to 301 to the beltway, 64 miles per hour. a lot bet are than earlier this morning. i-95 in virginia, prince william parkway to the beltway. 61 miles per hour. taking the beltway in virginia, you look really good on that inner loop. making your way from the 95 interchange to the dulles toll road, 60 miles per hour. the beltway in maryland looks

excellent right now. outer loop at connecticut had an accident. multivehicle crash in the left lane. but it is absolutely clear and no issues for you. >> danella, thank you. 11:36. the u.s. department of education named three elementary schools as blue ribbon schools. carson elementary, white hall in bowie, crofton meadows in anne arundel county. blue ribbon award recognizes schools with high performance for significant improvement in reading and math as measured by state tests and schools from baltimore, hartford and worcester counties were also recognized. congratulations. it is that time of year when parents across our area start tackling what for many of us is an annual puzzle. finding and scheduling summer camps for kids. here to help is brooke who may be a familiar face to loyal nbc viewers. so nice to see you. >> it is awesome to see you. thanks. >> a lot of people remember you as brooke hart. you were an nbc correspondent for years.

launched a new website called camp easy. how does it work? >> well, camp easy is -- a new way of providing parents with the information that so many of us want and need really in planning sum ircamps for our kids. and our goal in planning it is to make the process more like shopping than getting a tooth pulled. i know in our household it is -- it has been that way many years. we found in our own research that we are not alone in that. we have done some research and we found that 98% of parents in our area of families send their kids to camp at some point in the summer. rely on camps in some way. 60% of families rely on them for three to eight weeks of the summertime. and are spending anywhere from $1,000 $3,000 per child per summer on summer camp. this is a big decision. >> january, hard to imagine thinking about summer. i'm already getting the e-mails from my friends trying too coordinate and it becomes such a hassle and how do we make this easier and streamline?

that's what your website is for. parents should start planning now. >> parents do start planning now in january the height. it is beginning the height of the camp search process. camps are starting to market to families. the process starts now. 26% started in february. 28% in march. so this is a big push now as parents try to reconcile all of the considerations like proximity, time, and cost and what their kids are interested in. to make sure that their summertime plans come together in a way that works with their family's vacations and that works with their schedules and all of these logistics. and keeps their kids engaged and happy in the summertime. >> what are tips on dealing with the stress of planning and trying to save money and coordinating with other families? sometime as lot of it what my decisions are based on, where may friends' kids are going. >> that's a big consideration for us when we developed ca

campeasy.com. you can reconcile and bring together all these factors. proximity and time. they can share camp schedules with their friends and they can coordinate car pools and that kind of thing that's the news that they can use in order to plan their summers better. on camp easy we want to check off the first big questions first -- like what your kids' names or nicknames are. privacy is important, where you are looking for camp, what weeks of the summer you are looking for camp. then up pops the search results. it is a comprehensive listing of all of the camp options that fit within your criteria. then you can go about narrowing those search results based on things like proximity, the times, what your ideal pickup and drop-off times are. you can narrow them by cost. you can narrow them as you can see there by your kids' interests. kit get specific. all different kinds of sports and you can do it for multiple kids at the same time. which is a big thing for parents. if you have kids of different

ages, then how are you supposed to be -- you know, three different places a once dropping three kids off. so here is a way you can see all of that information in one stop. >> that's right. sounds so helpful already. excited about it. this connects you to families and camps in different areas of the country as well in case have you older kids that may want to do a sleep-away. >> exactly. that's something we heard. the response has been great. from both parents and camps because it has been -- like throwing millions of parents and camps in a dark room on the internet and expect them find each other. there hasn't been a helpful platform that connects them. and so we want to roll out of the d.c., maryland, virginia area. concentration of day camps is in the area. sleep-away camps across the area because we know that parents rely on them. then send tir kids far away for sleep-away camps and have gotten messages from parents who visit arizona and want to find out what the day camp options are there. so we plan to expand quickly and will be in the mid atlantic by spring and nationwide by -- sometime in 2012. working as fast as we can to

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welcome back. 11:45. transportation security administration is responding to a report by the "l.a. times" about an investigation into radiation exposure from airport body scanners. the newspaper says that the tsa starts testing screeners to see if they are being exposed to too much radiation. tsa spokesperson tells news4 it will place radiation detection devices near the body scanners, not on the actual screeners. the tsa says it is dedicated to the health and safety of its employees. so far there's no word on when devices will be put in place.

mysterious illness affecting 12 girls in new york left their doctors and families baffled. each teen goes to the same high school in upstate new york. their mysterious illness has symptoms similar to tourette's syndrome and have personal outbursts and involuntary twitches. the new york state department -- health department says no environmental factors or infectious disease caused the illness. one of the girl's mother debated that fact this morning on the "today" show. >> where tees proof? where's the data? where's the testing? when has this been done? there's -- nothing has been collectively done for our daughters. everything has been done individually. testing, they say all the girls have had, they have not had. the facts that they are stating just aren't true. >> what did the doctors tell you about what's happened to you? >> that it is stress-induced. when these started, i was fine.

i was perfectly fine. >> each girl was seen by her own doctor and is getting psychological treatment right now. sizable gains to start of the week on wall street. let's check in with brian shactman. he joins us live with more on that and the rest of the business headlines. good morning. >> good morning. we are strong here. dow jones up 120 points to start the holiday-shortened week. the story of the bullishness overseas, china, initial print on gross domestic product. believe it or not, it is at a 2 1/2 year low buttser than expected. takeaway is that china, maybe their landing will be a soft one. the government will step in and help out as well. in spain, i don't like to talk about bond options too much but s&p, if you might recall, downgraded spain's credit rating two notches last week. they had a bond option today that went extremely well.

europe was up and we are up. here in the states, two earnings reports i wanted to share with people. one is citigroup and wells fargo. citigroup disappoint order their profit. and their revenue where wells fargo was strong in both. and the thing that people need to understand with that is that citigroup has vent banking and they had put aside more money for loan losses and wells fargo not involved which is very quiet right now. they didn't have to set aside as much for loan losses. that's were there has been a also bit of a divergence there. banking sector is not the profitable business that it once was. right now the general market is strong. back to you. >> brian, thanks so much. have a great day. chances are that you will -- chances are low that you will ever get an infection at a nail salon but there are precautions you can take to make that risk even lower. dr. burgess joins us with what to avoid and look out for. nice to see you. start telling us what kind of problems you could encounter if you go to nail salon that's not

taking the proper procedures in terms of sanitation. >> when you speak of sanitation of certain instruments and devices they use in the salons, they should meet the standard of any other facility such as a medical facility in -- as far as sterilizing the instruments when they use them from patient to patient or client to client. so there are ways of sterilization in a medical office we use autoclaving which i brought an example of what an autoclave pack looks like. and when it is steer lies rilize these red dots are, they turn gray. there is a way you can look at your salon and if they bring them out in packs to know what indicators to look for. because you can just package it in a package and the -- the consumer thinks that they were sterilized. those are ways to second check them to make sure that they were

adequately done. and if the temperature isn't the right temperature, this color change will not turn from red to gray. >> good to know. any red flags if you are at a salon to know they are not using clean products and they are not going to be as sanitary as other ones? >> there's different types of sanitation. we have ultraviolet sanitation. there's chemical sanitation where they put them in chemicals and they just dry them off and they bring them in a tray. now it varies depending on the solution they are using. we have no idea or knowledge of what they are using. so i prefer the more heat, gas or steam sterilization methods. but for most places they are under the auspices of inspection. and so they can get surprise inspections by state authorities and be shut down if they are not doing things adequately. however, we never know if they

have ever been investigated or checked or spot, you know, investigation by these agencies. if that's what we don't know. it is very, very important to check out the technician who is doing your nails. they could have warts, fungus, anything on their hands that they are now possibly could be transferring it to you if you don't recognize it. if they do, they can wears gloves to treat you. and, yes. >> once in a while you will go to a nail salon and it seems like the technician is being a little aggressive getting all the dead skin and cuticles trimmed back. should it ever be painful? how much is too much when you know this is not okay? >> it should not be painful. you should not see blood. that's a concern. and depending on where people got their training, some are allowed to push the cuticle back, some are not, and sosome people complain on the other

side is that i didn't get a good manicure because they didn't get my cuticles. you know, up can't win for losing sometimes. but you should not see blood. you should not see pain. the treatment should be uneventful in a sense. now, there are some new technologies where people are putting their hands under lights. that's a concern. we have seen more diagnoses of skin cancer on the back of the hand studded hand because it uses ultraviolet light. >> use the air-dryers. >> some of the new air polishes have to be -- yes. they are the long-lasting nail polishes that the hands go under uv light. and that's a concern p. >> real quickly, a lot of the nail salons have those chairs where the -- attached tub. is that safe? some places are switching to basins. >> well, some of these devices, even including your whirlpool tub at home, they can trap bacteria in the jets. and that's a concern.

fungi, back tear yeah, any type of virus in hot water, that's the best environment for it to thrive. >> all right. dr. burgess, thank you so much, as always. very useful information. it is now 11:53. coming up new information on how babies learn to talk. meteorologist tom kierein will be back when the chance moves out of our area. stay with us all afternoon long. at 3:00 ellen sits

there is a new trend that keeps your dinner date engaged in conversation and not checking their smartphone. here is how it works. everyone at the table puts their phone face down in a pile and just forgets about it. the first person to reach for that cell phone before the bill comes has to pay. if no one caves in, the bill split evenly. concept seems to give friends more things to talk about-face to face. what a concept. new study out this morning shows babies are lip readers and need face time to learn to talk. new remember search suggests babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. they are also lip readers. scientists say when a child is around 6 months old they shift their intense eye gaze to study

mouths when people talk. researchers it underscores where face time is more important for speech development than those baby dvds. that makes a lot of sense. let's take a look at the stories we are following for news4 this afternoon. pat lawson muse joins news the newsroom now with a preview of things to come. >> good morning. coming up this afternoon on "news4 at 4:00" a pilot says he warned the model that walked right into a plane's propeller. leaving her severely injured. coming up on "news4 at 5:00," coughing, sneezing, sniffling, but it is not the flu. if that's you, doreen againstler repor genzler will tell what you to do. final check of the forecast now. tom, what do you say? >> lit feel like spring another couple of hours. it is only going to last for a couple of hours. it is going to be colder tonight, i know. look at the dark spots will on the satellite image. that's where the sun has been beginning to break out across northern virginia. sprinkles and we will have them

perhaps a little more later this afternoon and this evening after we reach near 60 degrees. windy and colder tomorrow, though. near 40 in the morning. down to near 30 after sunset. then cold weather after that. thursday, friday, and into the weekend. >> thank you so much. that does it for us for "news4 at midday." be sure to tune in to "news4 at 4:00" for the day's news. i will be back at 4:30 tomorrow morning. hope you will join us. until then have a great day. we will see you tomorrow. i just had it with cable. it just got more frustrating and frustrating. a lot of times, the picture would break up. for the amount of money that i am paying, my cable company should take care of me. [ male announcer ] stop paying for second best. move up to verizon fios tv, internet and phone for our best price online -- just $89.99 a month guaranteed for two years. first time we saw tv on fios was amazing!

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