killed on the grounds of a local elementary school. tonight her family talks only to news 4 about the tragic mistake that cost her her life. all eyes are on the skies tonight. will the fog impact the morning commute? we're tracking the conditions for drivers. good evening. we begin tonight in tampa, florida. mitt romney, newt gingrich mixing it up in a feisty debate that centered on electability. romney lost south carolina on saturday, and tonight he came out swinging. steve joins live from university of south florida in tampa with the latest. steve, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you from tampa where an energized some will surely charge overenergized mitt romney acc e accused newt gingrich of having a record that disqualifies him. newt gingrich and mitt romney each with one primary win tried to finish one another off tonight in florida. >> i think it's about

leadership, and the speaker was given an opportunity to be the leader of our party in 1994. at the end of four years, he had to resign? disgrace. >> i think the american public deserves a discussion about how to beat the barack obama, it is america deserves a discussion. >> i'm going to oint out things people need to know. >> you ought to look the facts. >> reporter: ron paul is not contending florida. rick santorum warned al qaeda could be active in cuba, but in a state hard-lit by the housing crisis, freddie mac is a big issue. the lender blamed by some for the mortgage mess. newt gingrich worked for freddie. tonight released his contract. >> you could have spoken to a way to say this is wrong and ends. instead you were paid by them. you were making over a million dollars at the same time people in florida were hurt by millions of dollars. >> romney made millions in business but paid a 15% tax rate. >> i'm proud of the fact i pay a

lot of taxes. >> i'd like to bring everybody else down to mitt's rate. >> a moment of agreement in a night of combat. and until the florida primary that's a week from tomorrow, the combat will continue. television ads, tens of millions of dollars worth in this huge state. live from tampa, news 4, back to you. >> steve thaw. and there's a great discussion online right now about this debate. we asked participants in the live web what the who they think wong. you can join the conversation. a busy final day of business in arizona for the congresswoman who was snot in the head during a citizen meet and greet last january. today congresswoman gabrielle giffords completed the congress on your corner event that she had been holding when she was shot. she also visited a family assistance center built with $200,000 in donations that

poured in after her shooting. congresswoman giffords will attend the state of the union tomorrow and will submit his resignation later this week. she's stepping down to focus on her recovery. senator rand paul had a showdown with tsa agents on his way back to washington from nashville today. the kentucky republican was stopped after a scanner found something unusual near his knee. from there the tsa says paul was escorted out of the screening area because he refused to undergo a pat-down. all this caused him to miss his flight. >> it's not because of who i am. americans are going through the airport every day subjected to these indignities. >> senator paul got rebooked on a later flight. senator rand paul is the son of president aal candidate ron paul. now we turn to the weather. a little wind and a lot of fog outside the studios in northwest d.c. and across the area.

veronica is it in storm center 4 with the latest. >> fog has been an issue all day long today. we see delays at reagan international airport. you see the capitol shrouded in fog. with the wind it's actually helping the fog to break up, but i think our winds will ease up a little bit. we see it die down to about 4, 5 miles per hour. that means more fog. the rain at least is out of here. there's a look at visibilities. 5-mile visibility in gaithersburg. by tomorrow morning we could see the fog drop down to a half mile visibility. we have improving conditions after that. we have more big surprises coming your way with our seven-day forecast. i'll have that in a couple of minutes. >> veronica, thank you. while we talk about the weather, a lot of questions tonight from parents in fairfax county. many wanted to know why public school officials made the decision to start on time, even though the federal government had a two-hour weather delay. jackie benson joins us live from

burke, virginia with more on this. jackie. >> reporter: aaron, parents know it's usually the other way around. the school system delays, and the federal government starts on time. but that is changing. even though the anticipated bad weather did not materialize as expected, the federal government was widely praised for its decision to err on the side of caution with a two-hour delay to the monday workday. so why ask parents in a local jurisdiction heavily populated with federal workers didn't fairfax public schools follow suit. >> it's ironic how the government had a three, four-hour delay and fairfax county didn't and prince william did. it was a little strange. >> i was a little surprised. i was watching the news early in the morning to see who was delayed and who wasn't, and i kind of -- i think the decision was right in fairfax county, but it did make me wonder with the government delay, why that was. >> reporter: smt disconnect came

from the fact under pressure to aavoid another karmageddon the federal government made the announcement a day in advance. fairfax county and other school systems make a delay or cancellation decision only a couple hours by the start of the cool day. by that time it was fairly clear that the weather wasn't as much of an issue as anticipated. and parents hope for even better coordination as the wrinkles in the new communication system get worked out. back to you. >> thank you, jackie. investigators are searching for a motive at a murder suicide. police were called to the home. they found 19-year-old aris beard and 21-year-old. he shot his girlfriend before turning the gun on himself. they were dating for three years. we learn about the woman hit and killed outside a prince georges county elementary

school. it it happened late this morning at samuel chase elementary school. gentlem jamari stone spoke with the family foent. >> heart-breaking. i lost my best friend. >> reporter: her best friend was her mother, my burnett tucker may. the 48-year-old died in the parking lot in temple hills. >> it breaks my heart that somebody -- that my mother had to die like that. >> they say this utility van backed over miss burnett while she was crossing the parking lot. >> she was a smart, loving person. she didn't curse. the most thing my mother was shut up. >> reporter: she's shocked that her mother died so close to home. she would walk through these gates every morning. today she was on her way to the bus stop to take care of her father. she never made it.

she leaves mind a heartbroken husband, five children including tameka who wonders if it had a backup alarm or the driver was distracted. police say he's cooperating with the investigation. >> how do you get over something like that? >> reporter: police say it doesn't appear the driver was speeding or drinking alcohol. he's not been charged. this case is still under investigation. in temple hills, maryland, news 4. d.c.'s top cop is meeting with residents of ward 4 to talk about crime concerns in the area. it was held at shepherd elementary school in northwest d.c. the police chief addressed recent robberies and carjackings. the chief says many cases have something in common. the robbers are after people's smartphones. >> this is nationwide, and not only nationwide, this is aa problem in other countries as well. smartphones, small, mobile devices, primarily smartphone

technology, which is very popular, can be resold very quickly on the black market. >> law enforcement officials from montgomery county and prince georges county who represent the neighborhoods near ward 4's border also attended the meeting. a secret service agent says he got goose bumps after watching john hinckley jr. during a recent trip. he was assigned to watch hinckley in a court. he was fixated a row of books about presidential assassination and president ronald reagan. he shot reagan in 1981. he's been hospitalized but is seeking more unsupervised time with his family in williamsburg. prosecutors are fighting that request. intense debate on both sides tonight as people for and against abortion rights gathered at the supreme court. it was it to mark roe vs. wade, the high court decision that legalized abortion 30 years ago

today. tonight a huge crowd gathered for a candlelight vigil and people on both sides spoke out. >> we are here to say that we are organized. women are galvanized and women will not go back, and women will never give up. >> abortion was a selfish choice, adoption would have been logical and merciful to my child examine myself. >> earlier today tens of thousands of people marched on capitol hill and at the supreme court to protest the roe vs. wade decision. another ruling from the supreme court today will impact how police track suspected criminals. the court unanimously aagrgreed bar police from installing gps technology to track suspects without a judge's approval. it comes after hearing an appeal in november from a d.c. man convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine after police installed a gps device on his jeep. some called the decision one of the most important of the computer age.

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more bodies today. two women were found near an internet calf take. it brings the death toll to 15. 17 others are missing. survivors of that wreckage are preparing to file a class action lawsuit, but carnival cruises is trying to compensate passengers in another way. it's offering a full refund and 30% off a future carnival cruise. taxz family is safe after a vacation in the caribbean turned into a nightmare. andy atkins, his wife jenny and their 4-year-old son logan was sight seeing on a seaplane earlier in month when the plane lost an engine, crashed into the ocean and flipped over. the pilot and others nearby were able to help the family get to the surface, and then remarkably two doctors were on a nearby boat and were able to start treating andy's wife and son immediately. >> they screamed there's two doctors on board and got them both on the back of the boat, got them oxygen and treated them

with all their skill. it reaffirms your faith in people and humanity that to many people stepped in to help. >> the whole family spent several days in the hospital before returning home last week. a political statement today during a time of celebration for the national hockey leak last year. the boston bruins were invited to the white house to celebrate their 2011 stanley cup championship, but the most valuable player goalie tim thomas choose to stay home. he said his decision is not partisan but based on his belief that the federal government has too much influence on americans' lives. thomas also says both parties are responsible for the situation we are in as a country. starbucks isn't just for coffee anymore. some stores will soon begin selling beer and wine. the company says it plans to start selling adult beverages at select locations in atlanta and southern california. those locations will also get menu upgrades and offer more

upscale food. five stores in seattle and one in portland already have the expanded menu offerings. the world's biggest coffee chain says it has similar plans for a few chicago-area cafes by the end of 2012. >> you can spend a lot of money at starbucks if you want to. >> you could in a short amount of time. >> can you get your wine as a skinny nonfat double shot of i don't know. >> i'm sure there's a way to make those orders complicated, too. the height of the foam on your beer or something. how about that fog out there? >> yeah, yeah. we're going to have this fog sticking around all night long. we're doing better right now than we were earlier today, and all it took was a little bit of wind. the wind is going to die down by tomorrow morning. that means more dense fog for us. the only difference is today it stuck around, and tomorrow it will leave pretty soon. let's look at some video. the same storm system rolling through here, the tail end did a lot of damage down south. sunday night and monday, two

dozen, nearly two dozen reports of tornadoes, alabama, arkansas and tennessee. most of them in alabama in je jefferson and shelton counties. it ripped roofs off and 100 people injured and two killed. looks like there's another severe weather outbreak this week hitting areas of southeastern texas and louisiana tomorrow, and then thursday georgia and kentucky. more of this crazy winter weather continues. around here we've been wet. we've been damp. a little bit of wind, so that helps the visibilities throughout the area. we lift the one pocket low-lying area martinsburg, west virginia now. we could see areas early tomorrow morning to a half mile to mile visibility around 4:00, 5:00, 6:00 a.m. today's high is 46 degrees, and that's the average. the temperatures have rose slightly over the last couple of hours due to a

south-to-southwest wind. as that wind settles, we see more fog throughout the area. here's a look at the early morning temperatures. not cold at all, so any wet areas on the roads are not icy tomorrow. 37 down in culpepper, and 40 to folks starting the day in fredericksburg, west virginia. about 42 degrees around waldorf. the next chance of any rain, thursday. look at those storms down to the south. this is what's left of that system that produced all the damage. small areas of some thunderstorms approaching central dos at that, georgia. the next area is down through the south, and we're tracking that closely. here's the weather front. it comes through early in the day tomorrow, so we'll start with a little bit of fog, and then that system is quickly through here. we'll get a westerly wind, snaft a breeze will be blowing throughout the early part of the day tomorrow. sunshine to a few clouds by the

afternoon. then for thursday as igsd, that next system you see the clouds increasing and moving through. some morning sunshine and afternoon clouds, albeit i don't think the rain from those clouds is hitting the area until late morning on thursday. we have a couple of dry days at least. wet roads for tomorrow morning. 36 to 42, 43 degrees for early tomorrow morning. then a very, very mild day by the time we get to 6:00, 7:00 a.m., a lot of that fog is burning off and pushing out of here. mild day, 51 to 56. it's probably the best day out of the work week tomorrow. again, with breezes comes through the area out of the west. wednesday's high is 48 degrees. we fry try to hang onto sunshinr wednesday. the high is 46 degrees, still above average, and thursday into friday p if that precip goes long enough, these temperatures drop and there might be a few pocket where is it gets icy around the area. i think we're talking rain

there, so what looks like a quiet week, not much going on, we don't have a wintry system to worry about for quite some time, we might see a few flurries late sunday. fog again for the morning. >> we'll enjoy tomorrow afternoon. thanks, veronica. coming up next -- ♪ i'm so in love with you >> who knew he could sing like that. his surprise serenade is now available for the cell phone. available for the cell phone. in sports the

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turnover, first quarter, wizards down by 19. first half, wizards down by 30. they didn't give up. the guys did manage to whittle down the final deficit to a respectable 20 points. mcgee and blatche and the wizards with another fruitless effort tonight. first possession of the game really told the story. rashad lewis over to nick young. he lugss the ball. iguodala comes up about it and gives it up to elton brand for the dunk. not a great start tonight. second quarter, wizards down by 21. bright spot here. mcgee challenges the shot, gets the block. jordan crawford scoops up the ball. he's going the other way. i'm going to keep it. a pass intended, but it's going fob a turnover. scoop it up and in. he had a team high of 17. the wizards trail by 30 at the break. third quarter off the with his

sfla -- wizards mixes. he's one of six 76ers in double figures. they fall 103-83. they're 2-15 on the season. >> what i was disappointed is i thought we would have came out with a better energized effort early. we fell behind, and the heads went down. this is a team that's beaten us a lot. whether we lack confidence against them or whatever, to their credit they executed and shot the ball well. down a level, george mason and the green machine band hosting unc will mi unc from wi. ryan pearson is running with them, and when you run you get reward. mason takes a one-point lead into halftime. and in the second half, more defense from the patriots. mike morrison breaks up the pass and ahead to morrison. unselfish play here.

pearson with the game high of 20. you got to love it. mason wins it 67-61. they improve to 16-5 on the year. talking hockey now. alex ovich kin not on the ice anytime soon. the nhl dealt him a harsh thr three-game suspension on the hit for michalek. i'm all thrown now. i try to spell this out phonetically. >> however you say it is okay with us. >> a couple people out there might know what i'm talking about. michalek wasn't injured. ovechkin is out until february 4th. here's the problem, he left his feet here. the nhl says you're not allowed to do it. he's done for three games, and now the suspension overlaps the all-star game. if i'm ovi i skip the all-star game in protest.

redskins news, laron landry won't have surgery on the achilles tendon. bob moves from coaching defensive backs to linebackers, and the coolest redskins news i heard tonight, london fletcher who is going for the pro bowl decided to fly two long-time redskins secretaries out to hawaii as well. how is that? >> that's pretty cool. >> really nice. b.j. blanchard who works at the front desk and the secretary for defensive special teams is going as well. for more pro bowl news let's hit the hellie pad. panthers rookie cam newton will replace manning and andy dalton will replace brady. chip keling is not going to the buccaneers. he turned them down and wants to stay at oregon. i bet you nike had something to do with that. also, kentucky no longer -- they

are the new number one team in the land, previously ranked syracuse who had the number one ranking. they drop to number four in the recent polls. love the london fletcher story. that's the neatest thing i've

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