shoveled on for bergeron. moves up with seguin. got it to him. firing one, and that was blocked by scandella. seguin again a shot. blocked away by backstrom. seguin comes with it again for the bruins. bad angle shot, blocked in front. marchand turning with it there. got it to bergeron behind. angled on back down. it's ference with it. ference's shot went wide. bounced on back for johnson to take off the boards. 3:10 left. it's hoisted back down. >> eddie: if you're claude julien, you get down in 2:15, 2:20 time on the clock as you get tim thomas with the extra attacker. >> mike: marchand battles in front. campbell's shot nubbed down. lifted along for the keep by seidenberg. stepped to the outside. chara nearby. it's knifed away. chara has to drop back defensively to get this. >> pierre: good play by clutt clutterbuck with the stick in the offensive zone. >> mike: fires it back oft

boards. hit off a couple of players. clutterbuck reaching for it, scrapping with paille. it's underneath him. squirts loose at center. it can be played back there and blasted back in yet again by thornton. helped along now to setoguchi. lifts one further. bruins will have to go back again. will this one be icing? no. icing waved off again with 2:25 to go. this was about the time you were saying, eddie. >> eddie: i think you get control here. nobody looking toward tim thomas just yet. >> mike: curled on back for setoguchi to start back out. he's got heatley along with him. brodziak up the wing. pass by heatley. in traffic, heatley tried to bad angle one in front. collision there, and he went down. meanwhile, the bruins can start back. tim thomas on his knees, back to his feet. no move just yet. the wild are able to lift it to center. 100 seconds to go. bergeron marches back in.

forced on back. thomas was about to come to the bench. this will go back for an icing this time with 1:30 to go. >> eddie: face-off will be to the left of niklas backstrom. time-out would anticipate for the bruins. get the dry erase board, about five feet to the right of pierre. jeff wa geoff ward will do some handiwork with that board. david krejci throwing this puck to the net looking for the stick of milan lucic. there is a rebound there, but everybody's accounted for. there's that quick little poke-check. would have been jordan caron. would have had a wide open net, but the quick stick, the poke-check of niklas backstrom. 45 shots on goal for the bruins.

still looking for their first one of the afternoon. >> mike: so one final 90-second assault on the part of the bruins. six attackers. minnesota enjoying a two-goal lead. zidlicky gave it up to krejci behind. krejci dropped it back in deep. zidlicky again. chara with the good stick reach. zanon lifted one that will go back out. corvo has to retreat. corvo sent it ahead. kelly able to feather it through, but it escaped to the wall. brought back on by bergeron. holds through traffic. deals it back in deep. thrown in front. corvo a shot. back stop made by backstrom. pad stop by corvo again.

one minute to go. chara leads it across. settled down there and walked on by bergeron. ripper. that one is grabbed by backstrom, and play again is stopped. >> eddie: boy, the anticipation this afternoon of niklas backstrom has been sensational. low pass, quick little push-off. joe corvo not able to get a lot on that shot. wasn't able to elevate it. look at zidlicky, good defensive play on chris kelly to deny a second chance opportunity. >> mike: false start. they try again. it's jammed around behind and fired up the boards. chara tried to play it there. off of kelly, behind to lucic. heatley with the net empty. blocked around behind. heatley goes charging in after it.

and chara is able to take. 30 seconds to go. the need for the bruins is a pair. kelly brought it on and shot one that's blocked again by backstrom. that's number 47. spiked right back into some traffic again but forced off the boards of the back to center. chara blasts it in. two huge points for the wild. only four behind calgary for the last spot. and chara blasts the last one, and it's a shutout. for niklas backstrom. he earned it with 48 saves.

fourth shutout of the year for backstrom. what a busy man today. now they have adjusted upward 49 saves for him. the wild go to center to salute the crowd. >> eddie: when you get off to a slow start, you need your goaltender to allow you to gain some confidence, get in your game. i thought the interview that pierre did with mike yeo, the head coach of the minnesota wild, really told the tale, that they got their game in place. they played much better in the middle of the ice even though the bruins had 48, 49 shots on goal. a lot of them were one and done for the boston bruins. >> mike: matt cullen, pierre mcguire. >> pierre: thanks a lot, doc. early on, it looked like the bruins were going to steam roll you guys out. how important was it for nick backstrom to stand on his head? >> he's been good for us all

year. he kept us in it. we had a tough one last night. i can't stay enough about how backy has been. >> pierre: matt, you're back in the race. you're still alive in the race. obviously, you alluded to the game yesterday in st. louis where you only had 14 shots on goal. what was said 234 your dressing room before this game? >> we talked about the importance of this game. you can't do anything about what happened yesterday. you can control what happens today. i think guys took it upon themselves to lead in their own ways, and guys battled really hard. it was a big one for us. >> pierre: you had a chance to go to a lot of other places. you chose to come back to the state of hockey in minnesota. the way these fans respond to your team is absolutely unbelievable. what do you have to do here? you're going on the road right now to make sure everyone stays focus focused. >> we've got to build off of this. we did some really great things. certainly, there's things we can do better. we came together and held on. we played a really hard game. that's what we need to carry into the road. we have a lot of games here down the stretch. it's a big win for us. it feels really good.

we've got to stay on it. >> pierre: congrats on the goal, congrats on the win. >> mike: final score of the game, matt cullen and his wild 2, boston bruins 0. zach parise and the devils are facing off against the montreal canadiens. that's later on tonight. on nbc, "the voice" starting at 7:00/6:00 central. followed by the season premiere of "celebrity apprentice." for the road warriors, the rams, the night rangers, the number one teams in hockey, men's and women's boston college, ivy league number one men's and women's team cornell, for williams college and the hyannis port presidents, for liam mchugh, mike milbury, pierre mcguire, eddie olczyk, i'm doc emrick saying so long from minnesota.

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tonight at 6:00, you remember that huge highway sign that fell on a truck on i-66. now it seems the problem in northern virginia may be bigger than just that. good evening, everyone. i'm aaron gilchrist. we'll have that story in just a moment. we begin with the weather tonight. snow is coming down in roanoke, virginia. chuck says up to six inches could fall there in the southwestern part of the state. but here at home, our snowfall chances, well, they're not that good. chuck joins us to break it all down. >> hey there, aaron. indeed, it looks impressive on the radar. heavy snow across much of southwestern virginia. the moisture's trying to reach in our direction as well. the problem is, we've got a lot of dry air in place and it's well above the freezing mark. 42 at national airport.

but 35 in fredericksburg, along i-95, where there is snow coming down now. enough to get some of the grass white. but the roads remain just wet, and not snow covered. that is important news. winter weather advisories and storm warnings continue. the snow line is going to try to inch towards the metro area here. but i don't think it will add up to too much. inside the red area is not even reaching the ground. flakes only maybe sticking to the grass, maybe an inch on the grass way down to the south. >> thank you, chuck. in our other headlines tonight, whitney houston has been laid to rest. her body was taken from a funeral home to a cemetery in westfield, new jersey. hundreds of fans lined the streets to watch the hearse go by today. houston was buried next to her father. the service at the grave site was for close family only. an argument escalated into a bloody shooting and high-speed chase in prince george's county.

this started around 1:00 a.m. on marlboro pike. derrick ward has the story. >> reporter: people who live in the complex said there may have been a party, but there definitely was an argument. loud voices and shouting awakened some, and more distu disturbing sounds, the sounds of gunfire. >> i don't know who it was. whoever it was, they got fire power. >> reporter: another neighbor came upon the aftermath with more than a passing interest. >> because i knew that my sons were out, and, you know, you just never know. it's that mother in you. and so i just ran to see who it was. and i couldn't see him. but i just felt for him and started praying. >> reporter: lug uckily for her her sons were not among the victims. police say that the incident didn't end here. there was a high-speed chase that lasted for 20 minutes after the shooting. police posted a lookout for a suspect vehicle, it was spotted

and the chase began which ended here on telegraph road. a suspected was arrested and a weapon reported. back at the complex, word that a suspect had been caught came as a relief. >> i'm glad the people who got shot survived. because nobody needs to die over something foolish like that. >> reporter: derrick ward, news4. the funeral today for a woman shot and killed by a culpepper county police officer last week. 54-year-old patricia cook was sitting in her jeep in a church parking lot on northeast street. culpepper police responded to the scene after someone called saying cook's car looked suspicious. the officers shot cook after she allegedly rolled the window up on his arm and started to drive. a witness told news4 that cook never drove off. virginia state police are investigating. well, these images are pretty hard to forget, an enormous highway came down in

fairfax county last week. tonight, two more signs are missing from northern virginia highways because of a safety hazard. darcy spencer joins us live from springfield with more on this. darcy, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, aaron. those signs were taken down along i-95 this weekend. hundreds of inspections are taking place. it appears the common thread here is cracked bolts. they want to make sure another sign doesn't collapse like it did last weekend. a week ago saturday, a huge overhead sign collapsed onto the eastbound lanes of i-66 near west ox road in fair faeks county, crushing the front of a pickup truck. it came down during high winds and later found to have cracked bolts. it triggered a department of transportation inspection of similar highway signs including the bolts that hold these signs together. >> there were structures that should be able to sustain very high winds. so that might have just been the straw that broke the camel's

back and pushed it over of the some of those bolts were also fractured. so why we have a problem with these bolts is unclear. and that's what we need to get to the bottom of. >> reporter: this weekend, vdot took down the signs when signs on i-95 near the prince william parkway in wood bridge, after more cracked anchor bolts were found during those inspections. they will inspect more than 260 signs in northern virginia over the next month. those inspections involve ultrasonic testing on the questionable anchor bolts. vdot inspects the signs every five years. officials say no problems were found with the bolts during those previous inspections. >> we don't know why these bolts are fractured. are they faulty, or if there was some other factor involved. but in the meantime, if anything looks the least bit shaky, it's coming down. >> reporter: vdot officials are

saying this is a top priority. 261 signs will be inspected throughout the month of march. darcy spencer, news4. >> darcy, thank you. police are watching the dar al-hijrah center to protect it from potential hate crimes. yesterday we learned that amine el khalifi, the man accused of bombing the capital on friday prayed at that mosque before his arrest. it is the same place that anwar al ala wa hi was. el khalifi was not a regular worshipper at that mosque. still ahead here, is it safe to get your caffeine fix by inhaling it. rick santorum is trying to explain what he meant when president obama had a, quote, phony theology. and it turns out this is

the fd is looking into whether inhaleable caffeine is safe. it's for sale in massachusetts and new york. it's sold as a dietary supplement, but new york senator chuck shumer asked the fda to take another look. aero shot said it will cooperate

with the review and its product is safe. espn fired one employee and suspended another today for using offensive language referring to knicks phenom jer any lin. it was used in the mobile website on friday. it was also spoken by an espn news anchor. the anchor was suspended for 30 days. there was another use of the phrase on espn radio by a commentator who was not a network employee. jeremy lin hit the hardwood again this afternoon. still ahead tonight, chuck's back to tell us when we could see, or if we could see, or who might maybe possibly see some snowflakes tonight. plus this. it's one of the most beautiful buildings in the world, as far as i'm concerned. >> about to get the trump treatment for the first time, the donald talking about his plan to turn an old post office building into a luxury hotel, coming up at

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coming to decision 2012, rick santorum trying to calm a controversy today after saying president obama believed in a, quote, phony theology, as the rest of the gop field gets ready for a primary showdown in michigan. brian moore has the story. >> reporter: rick santorum was talking about president obama's agenda. >> it's not about you. it's not about your quality of life. it's not about your jobs. it's about some phony ideal,

some phony theology. >> reporter: that phony theology line has the obama campaign crying foul. >> it's wrong, it's disruptive, it makes it virtually impossible to solve the problems that we all face together as americans. >> reporter: santorum said he was not talking about religion. >> i've repeatedly said the president is christian. i'm talking about his world view. >> reporter: religion and social issues have taken a prominent role with the key contest nine days away, in mitt romney's home state of michigan. >> if any of us loses our home state, you have a very, very badly weakened candidacy. >> reporter: while santorum is surging in the polls, john mccain, who won the nomination back in 2008, is standing behind romney. >> mitt romney was succeed. i was declared by pundits such as yourselves back in 2007 and 2008. >> reporter: the 2012 gop nomination still up for grabs.

the latest polls show santorum pulling past romney in michigan. that sets the stage for an upset that would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago. on capitol hill, brian moore, news4. >> thanks to brian. speaking of upset, folks around here may be upset -- >> we never promised you a snowstorm. >> yes. >> we kept your expectations very, very low. it has developed into a decent snowmaker for places just to our south and west. and that is where we find the weather channel's mike sideel down in far southwestern virginia in the town of withville where they have actually seen some snow. >> chuck and aaron, this is the storm that could have been in washington. but it didn't quite get there. it certainly hit here in withville, about an hour southwest of roanoke. this is the first time they've had to put out the snow shovels this weekend. look at i-81 behind me. it's a slow travel day.

some of the folks using their blinkers, it's snow packed and snow covered. it's been about an inch an hour all afternoon. the biggest storm by far, nearby roanoke, only had .4 of an inch of snow before today. we're expecting another couple of inches here. all the way to richmond, we're looking at two to four inches in richmond. if you're going down 95 late tonight or early tomorrow morning around the richmond area, there may be some icy spots as temperatures tomorrow bottom out somewhere between about 25 and 28 degrees. for here, though, the sun is back out tomorrow. as the storm heads off the coast. and chuck and aaron, just, just maybe grazing parts of the d.c. area this evening. that will be about it as the reagan snowfall total at this point remains at a measly two inches. back to you. >> yeah, thanks indeed, mike. two inches is all we've been able to muster all winter. i'll be pleasantly surprised if

we can get .2 of an inch out of this system tonight. and i'm a snow lover. 42 degrees right now at national airport. you're not going to get much snow at that temperature. just down to the south, where the colder air has settled in there are snowflakes flying now. fredericksburg, on out to charlottesville, temperatures are way too warm. showing up on radar here, most of this up here across northern maryland isn't even reaching the ground. that's a big part of our snow forecast going forward. in that area, northern maryland, nary a flake to be found for the rest of this evening. conversational snowflakes only from about i-66 and route 50 down to parts of southern maryland. might get an inch from fredericksburg westbound towards culpepper and the southern end of the shenandoah valley. nothing around our area. winter weather advisories pick up from fredericksburg to points south of there. there's the leading edge of what is actually sno