d.c. police release new information in the past hour to news 4 about the victim of an early morning murder in northwest. we now know the victim is a teenager. more snow is moving in our direction from the west, and that has some school systems deciding to close early. we'll have a list and the latest on the next snow should arrive in our area. good morning, everyone. welcome to "news 4 mid day," i'm

barbara harrison. >> right now there is light snow in chicago. this is michigan avenue a few hours ago. the snow is coming from the same storm system that could bring us snow later this afternoon. the windy city already has a layer of snow on the ground and has been dealing with extremely cold temperatures this week, just like us. and this is what the snow did to neighborhoods in one fairfax county naked overnight. the snow turned to ice. this is a side street off annandale road. vdot doesn't plow the roads unless they get over two inches. >> some of the schools already decided to close early. fairfax county closing 2 hours early. montgomery county 2 1/2 hours early. fauquier closing at noon. charles county closing 2 hours ear early. loudoun county closing 1 hour early. calvert county and frederick county, maryland, closeding 2 hours early. continue to watch the bottom of

your screen for more updates and tune into nbcwashington.com. storm team meteorologist tom kieran. folks are getting ready for the storm coming this way. just enough to put down a coating but will stick immediately once it starts falling. showing the mountains. the bright white areas is where it's reaching the ground. where you see the darker gray, it's all pretty much drying up before it reaches the ground. we don't have -- it shows on radar snow right over northern virginia, the district, and maryland, don't have any reports of any of that reaching the ground. when you look at the sky, you kind of see there's a little bit of fuzzy look to the clouds. that is actually the snow falling out of the clouds, but then it dries right up. it reaches the surface. it's going to take a while before the snow does saturate and begins to reach the ground. right now at the surface, still very cold. right now only in the low 20s. in the nearby suburbs,

montgomery, prince george's, arlington, and fairfax. right at reagan national now at 24 degrees. and it is extremely dry. that's why a lot of that snow is just drying up before it reaches the ground. eventually, we ought to see some of that over the next couple of hours begin to give us a light coating. how much? i'll tell you in just a few minutes, along with the seven-day outlook, keith. >> tom, we'll see you back inside in a few. >> right now a gun control roundtable is taking place in the virginia commonwealth university, city of richmond. vice president joe biden is taking part as a part of his push to curb gun violence. senator tim kaine, congressman bobby scott, and several members of the president's cabinet are also there. they're discussing with gun control with experts who have worked on gun safety in the wake of the 2007 virginia tech massacre. also right now, parts of downtown d.c. are shut down because of the march for life rally. the annual anti-abortion rally means several streets are closed through 6:30 tonight. including several parts of

constitution, first, third, fourth, and seventh streets. tony tull is down on the national mall with a look at how things are going so far. tony, seeing a lot of people down there? >> reporter: we are actually. we just came from a mass i want to tell you about. we're at seventh and "f" across from the verizon center. you can see some of the people can pai packing the signs and crowds gathering. you can see the heavy police presence. there are going to be a lot of road closures, which we'll talk about in a minute. the right to life march. 1973, roe versus wade, the supreme court decision that legalized abortion. that's what these folks are protesting against. at 7:00 began a large mass in the verizon center with over 18,000 people. that's set to end around 11:30. from the march, they will march from the verizon center to the national mall via seventh street and then down "f." once at the national mall, they will meet hundreds of thousands

of other folks and other march for life participants. the record 400,000 attendees in previous years, but they hope that they will break that. we spoke with the archbishop of d.c., david worrell, and this is what he had to tell us about the march this afternoon. >> we're going to be marching in the direction of the supreme court. we do that every year because that was the focus of the roe versus wade decision. you have to have some destination. >> reporter: now, after they leave the verizon center, they're going to meet at the national mall at noon with all the other participants, and the march will actually take place at 1:30. they'll be heading to the national mall and down to the supreme court. a lot of those road closures, most specifically constitution. you'll see a very heavy police presence along it as well as a lot of road closures here in downtown d.c. that's the latest from downtown, i'm tony tull. barbara, back to you. >> let's check the late day

traffic. mike is nor danella sealock. >> things looking good on the major interstates. northbound 123 at fairfax county parkway, left lane shut down. northwest at mickelson street, all your travel lanes have been reopened. in maryland, southbound 95 at route 100, that accident cleared. we just learned the name of a woman who was shot and killed early this morning in northwest washington. she's 18-year-old shivon nicole lee of maryland. someone killed her on 5th and nicholson street this morning. news 4's megan mcgrath has more. >> reporter: police are trying to solve a murder in northwest. the crime happened very early this morning at the corner of fifth and nicholson street. police say the gunman shot her in the head and left her lying on the sidewalk.

residents woke to the sight of flashing police lights, their street a murder scene. >> very concerned. i walk my dogs when i get home at night. it's dark, so i have to come out and walk him. i don't know anymore. >> reporter: police got a call for an unresponsive person lying on the ground at the corner of fifth and nicholson street northwest. when they arrived, officers found the body of a woman on the sidewalk. she had been shot in the head. javon hanes heard her dogs making noise earlier this morning, then came the sound of a single gunshot. >> i heard them barking. that's when i got up, and i heard the gunshot and went looking around the house. >> reporter: did you call police? >> no. every blue moon, we might hear a gunshot here and there, every so often. it's not the first time i've heard a gunshot around here, so no. >> reporter: this is still an open investigation. no arrests have been made at this point. anyone with information, you're asked to call metropolitan

police. megan mcgrath, news 4. any minute now, one of the men convicted of killing a d.c. school principal will be sentenced. lancaster was one of the people convicted of killing brian betts in his silver spring home in 2010. betts was the principal at shaw middle school northwest. betts met one of the suspects online, and the five planned to rob him. sharif lancaster could face life in prison. and right now a jury is getting the rare chance to leave the courtroom in the middle of a trial of a former police officer. this is new video of jurors casing a street in culpeper. that's where prosecutors say former police officer daniel harmon wright shot and killed patricia cook last year. harmon wright claims self-defense saying cook rolled up her window on his arm and tried to run over him. yesterday a witness testified the former cop's story was not true. anne arundel county executive john leopold's defense

team is making their case in leopold's misconduct trial. they're arguing that leopold's use of his taxpayer security funded detail for personal errands does not amount to a crime. the prosecution rested yesterday after calling more than a dozen witnesses in four days. they included members of leopold's security detail who testified that they ferried the executive to sex encounters with a county employ. police are now looking for a third person behind the gang related murder of a 16-year-old boy. prince george's county police say they arrested two teens yesterday in the shooting death of 16-year-old marcus jones. they say 17-year-old ings and 19-year-old fisher shot jones to death saturday night in fort washington because of a gang rivalry. jones was a sophomore at friendly high school. coming up, big changes could be coming to high school sports programs. we'll explain the changes the

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clashes between protesters and police this morning on the second anniversary of egypt's revolution. thousands filled tahrir square. the protesters are primarily made up of those opposed to president mohamed morsi. they hope to use the demonstrations as a show of strength to force morsi to amend the controversial and strict new constitution. morsi's supporters say they are marking the anniversary with acts of public service. and we could learn at any moment now whether a former cia officer has been sentenced to prison for leaking the name of a covert operative to a reporter. john kiriaku has already agreed to spend more than two years behind bars.

he says the government is punishing him for speaking out against torture the cia conducted. prosecutors say he was really after fame and fortune. today new efforts to give disabled students equal access to afterschool sports. the obama administration is sending letters to school districts across the country. it will call for, quote, reasonable modifications for students with disabilities. for example, a flashing light that goes off at the same time as the starting gun for a track athlete who cannot hear. 12 states already require accommodations. schools that do not comply could lose federal funding. and we've learned that president obama has chosen his next chief of staff. trusted adviser and national security expert dennis mcdonough will take over for jack lew. lew is the president's nominee for treasury secretary. mcdonough has been advising president obama on foreign policy for nearly a decade and has played a key role in all the president's major national security decisions, including the end of the iraq war, the repeal of don't ask, don't tell, and the withdrawal from

afghanistan. an official announcement is expected in about an hour. the president's former challenger mitt romney will be in town today for a rare appearance. he's attending a luncheon hosted by philanthropist kathleen reynolds and bill marriott jr. at the marriott hotel downtown. marriott jr. has rejoined the board of directors after leaving in 2011 to run for the white house. he chose not to attend the inauguration monday, the first nominee to do so since michael dukakis back in 1989. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein is here with a look at the forecast. normally, it's boring and drab and gray in the winter. when it snows, everything turns bright and beautiful. this is a photograph i took yesterday afternoon. we talk about the hazards of the snow, but so much beauty associated with it as well. post your pictures to

nbcwashington.com, and you can follow me on twitter and facebook, and tweet when we see the first flakes. we don't have reports of any yet, athe least falling from the sky. as we take a look right now, there is the view from our nbc 4 city camera. notice the sky is a gray fuzzy look. that's because a few snowflakes may be trying to fall out of those clouds. they're drying up before they reach the ground. right now it's 24 at reagan national. dewpoint is very dry, down to 1 below zero. definitely keep the skin lotion handy and the lip balm. the windchill is down to 17, but not a lot of wind. you're going to feel it if you're out for a length of time. as we look at the radar, this is very deceptive. as we see it over virginia and maryland, it is all evaporatine. off to our west, it's probably reaching the ground. right now a few flurries may be trying to reach the ground in fairfax county.

otherwise, all of this is still suspended aloft. farther west, maybe a few just beginning to reach the ground, panhandle of west virginia, maybe near winchester, just north and west of there farther south, and maybe around stevens city. otherwise, a lot of this is just going to take a while before it does saturate the air, and we'll get some reaching the ground. all these counties in lavender under a winter weather advisory for 2:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. today. the higher amounts of snow for this warning snow is a very small area, but it covers western maryland and the ski areas in north and central west virginia. they could get up to six inches of that snow arriving. all thf of this is accumulatingw here in lavender by noontime just beginning to show up in the mountains. by around 3:00, 4:00, it should start reaching the ground around washington, and our eastern suburbs may get a little bit more from this as it does intensify a bit, moves off, picks up moisture off the bay and maybe off the atlantic as it begins to move off the eastern shore. those zones could get somewhat higher amounts, but still a very light snow event.

not a lot. here's how much we're going to get. maybe just a dusting to an inch. most of the region. but enough to coat the ground, and whatever falls is going to stick immediately and is going to stay in place on the untreated surfaces on the eastern shore and around the bay and the counties east and southeast of washington, there could be an inch or two at the most. out of the mountains, yes, there could be more. before the afternoon, just a little light snow developing as the afternoon progresses. we'll be just in the mid and upper 20s, light south/southeasterly breeze. snow quickly e lly ending for f evening. could be slick spots. down to near 20 by midnight. down to the teens. afternoon highs may get near freezing with sunshine. on sunday, teens get in the morning. afternoon highs mid-30s. sounds like a lot of the snow will be melting on monday. highs reaching near 40 during the afternoon, and then on tuesday, maybe even a bit milder, up around 50. and wednesday could get some showers and temperatures in the mid-50s.

>> wow. little springtime, huh? >> i like the sound of that. >> a little touch of it anyway. >> thanks, tom. we're going to check the midday traffic. still looking good on the interstates. no reports of serious backups on the beltways. good news in virginia, incident 123 northbound at fairfax county parkway has been removed. all the travel lanes open. accident southbound 95 route 100 in maryland. exit still closed. and no worries at the 14th street bridge. 12 minute ride from the beltway to the bridge at 54 miles an hour. it's 19 minutes after 11:00. still ahead on "news 4 midday," an opportunity for nationals fans this weekend. how you can meet players and get ready for the season. plus whiish you had the arm of first lady michelle obama, who looked sensational in this week's sleeveless gown for the

in less than three weeks, nationals pitchers head to florida for spring training. nationals are helping fans get ready for the season with nats fest at the washington convention center this weekend. joining us to talk about the event and other the inationals is the team's chief operating officer andrew pepper. this is a great time of year for nats fans. how can you help them celebrate the upcoming season? >> this is tremendous. nats fest sfartarts this weeken. harper, gio, the outfielder that everyone is going to love to

see. everyone is going to be there. natitude starts right now at nats fest. >> you guys were three outs away from a trip to the nlcs. you corrected me on the break. you said one strike, keith. one strike away. fans have to be geared up thinking this team is on the verge of doing something special for years to come. >> we delivered the unexpected last year. this is probably the youngest team in baseball with a lot of young stars up and coming. despite the fact we didn't go further in the playoffs, we had the best record in baseball. went to our first playoff game, 46,000 people at those playoff games. the most memorable moment for me wasn't the fact we didn't move on, but jayson werth electrified the crowd with a walk-off home run and 13 pitches at bat. i heard people from the restaurants, bars, people walking in the street going absolutely crazy. that's my memory from last year. >> he was worth that big money you guys gave him. he always steps up to the plate big time. >> he's a gamer. he plays hard. >> he talked about a couple of

new players. one that has everyone buzzing is your closer, rafael soriano. people remember how the bullpen struggled at the end of that loss to the cardinals. >> it's interesting, while it didn't end the way we wanted, the bullpen was the strength. probably had the best bullpen in the national league last year. so to build on that strength and add another piece in rafael soriano only makes it better than it was and gives davie johnson more options on how to handle the bullpen. what was the strength, and arguably the best in the national league, has all of a sudden become even better. >> mike rizzo, your general manager, voted by the baseball writers association as executive of the year. >> well deserved. mike put together a strategy yards ago of building the team from within, building a farm team, scouting, player development, identifying and cultivating those players. and the fruition of that plan came to light last year as we went forward on the field.

it's only getting stronger. if you look in our farm system now, there's dozens of players up and coming. mike rizzo deserves all the credit. >> that was all a setup for the big question. tomorrow at nats fest, you're going to talk about an adjustment to the presidents race. who's out? who's in? who's being added? >> there's a lot of rumor mill going on in social media about who the next president will be. >> is it going to be teddy coming off his first victory? is he gone? >> everyone thought the inauguration and the presidential stuff was over last week. it's not. we've got a special announcement at nats fest tomorrow where we'll announce the new president. rumor has it that teddy has hand picked his successor. >> when you say successor, i think teddy's out, meaning he's being replaced. >> do you know something? >> if he's picking his successor, he's not adding on. he's saying somebody's replacing me. >> you never know. i expect teddy to be around for a while. he won his first race last year. i don't expect that he's retiring his cleats just yet. >> and lastly, real quick, andy, one more time how fans can get

tickets to the convention center event. >> go to nationals.com/natsfest today. you can walk up to the convention center tomorrow 12:00 p.m. we've got inflatables, interactive games, story time told by the players and reading books to the kids, autographs, photos, player interviews -- all kinds of things. on a cold day in washington, 72 and sunny, and spring training starts tomorrow at the washington convention center. >> and presidential news to boot. >> and the big presidential news conference tomorrow. >> thanks for coming on. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> good luck on a great event and a great season coming up. >> we'll see you tomorrow. the time is now 11:27 right here on "news 4 midday." coming up in the next half hour, meet a local boy playing an important role next sunday in new orleans and super bowl

right now on "news 4 midday, ," we're watching snow move our way from the west. we have many schools in our area closing early. the full list is on the bottom of the screen and on nbcwashington.com. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein will be back in a few minutes with an update on that snow. several roads near the national mall are closed right now because of the march for life, many between constitution a avenue are shut doup. all streets should be reopened by 6:30 tonight. as people begin to gather for the march for life rally, a new national poll is out showing more young people identify as pro choice rather than pro life.

the poll was conducted by jennifer lawless, a professor at american university, and she joins us this morning with more now. good morning. thanks for coming in. >> thank you for having me. >> a big day for pro lifers down on the mall. tell us about this poll that you conducted. how did you conduct it? >> this was a national poll where we were very interested in people's political issues. as well as their ambition to run for office themselves. there were a few questions about abortion and reproductive rights that we included. it's a national random sample of 13 to 25 years old, half of whom are in high school and half of whom are in college. >> let's take a look at the results. let's start with what you asked students about being pro choice. high school, 32% said they were pro choice. in college, 53% said they were pro choice. looking at pro life, students in high school, 37% said they were pro life. 33% of the college students asked if they were pro life.

are you surprised by these results? >> what was most surprising to me about the results is the gap between the high school and the college students. not necessarily in terms of whether they were pro life or pro choice, but in terms of whether they identified with the label. and what we found were high school students were twice as likely as college students to say they did not know. that suggests those labels don't really gain any kind of traction in terms of people's views until they reach college. >> don't you think those labels are pretty confusing to a lot of people, even adults? >> of course. >> as pro life versus pro choice. >> of course. and both sides have tried to take the rhetoric and make it their own, the pro choice side calls the pro life side anti-choice, for example. it's not that surprising. when we look at actual attitudes and ask people under what circumstances do we think abortion should be legal, the choices are far more clear. >> the poll also found that young people are not worried about abortion being outlawed. do you have any idea why they're not concerned since there's so much talk about that in

washington? >> that was surprising. about 88% of the high school students and 78% of the college students are not worried about this. we asked them about other issues. it's not that surprising they're more concerned about war or a terrorist attack. high school and college students are also more concerned about illegal immigration than they are about the loss of reproductive freedom. that is somewhat surprising given this poll was conducted in october during the height of presidential campaign where this issue was garnering so much attention. >> perhaps in their lifetime they would not have ever imagined there would not be abortion allowed in this country. it has been for the last 40 years. >> right. >> is that right? 40 years. that is a lifetime. >> they were all born and all grew up in a post-roe versus wade world. >> did people in the poll believe it should be outlawed? did you ask them that? >> we asked them under what circumstances should abortion be legal? 50% said it should be legal in all or most circumstances.

50% said it should be illegal in all or most circumstances. public opinion is really split among high school and college students, the same way it is among adults. >> so interesting to look at on a day when we have so many people in town for the pro life march. in other news, we're waiting to hear from the faa about who's to blame for two planes clipping wings at dulles. chopper 4 was on the scene shortly after it happened yesterday. you can clearly see the damage. we've learned a united airlines flight arriving from brussels, belgium, hit the wing of another united airlines plane parked at a gate. fortunately, no one was hurt. d.c. council members say they want to hear more about a report that police in the district are improperly investigating sexual assault cases. news 4 was the first to report the human rights watch report, claiming that d.c. police routinely mishandle sexual assault allegations. the group says it could not find documents on 170 cases between 2008 and 2011. metro police chief cathy lanier

claims the report is unsubstantiated, claiming that reports of sexual abuse are actually up 51% from 2011 to 2012. the justice department is also looking into this report. a former maryland delegate is in critical condition after being pulled from her burning home. 80-year-old christine jones wasn't breathing when they found her in this raging fire in temple hills yesterday. she did regain consciousness at the hospital. jones is the first african-american to represent prince george's county in the maryland general assembly. firefighters are still investigating the cause of the fire but say it started in her bedroom. an 8-year-old boston terrier is being hailed as a hero for saving her owner's life. this is kayla. she woke her owner up, christie williamson, in the middle of the night wednesday night. williamson says, when she went to get out of bed, she fell to the ground nauseous. she called 911, and firefighters pulled her and kayla from the

home, both are carbon monoxide poisoning. it turns out someone had left their car running for several hours in a garage beneath her apartment. >> one, i'm just so appreciative that i'm alive and that she's alive, and i feel so lucky that i can tell my family how much i love them. >> williamson says that, as soon as she left the hospital, she went and bought a carbon monoxide detector. we're going to check in again with tom kierein with the latest on our forecast. he's outside there in that cold weather. you see any snowflakes yet, tom? >> no. they're suspended aloft. you can kind of tell the sky looks a little bit fuzzy, and that is snow falling from the overcast. it is drying up before it reaches the ground. there is the sky over the potomac river, and the clouds are thickening up a little bit. it's going to take quite a while for the air to get saturated enough for it to reach the ground. look at the storm team 4 radar. it's snowing all over virginia and maryland. actually not yet anyway. in the next couple of hours, we

should begin to see those snowflakes reaching the ground. it is so dry and so cold. it's just in the low 20s right now. whatever does reach the ground is going to stick immediately on all the untreated surfaces. these are the totals i'm expecting. not a lot. maybe a dusting to an inch. most of the areas you see in the light blue, that's most of virginia, the district, much of maryland. however, counties east of washington, right near the bay, and the northern neck, eastern shore, some of thoeds locatise might get an inch or two. out of the mountains, some of the higher amounts are likely there as we get into late tonight. it will all end quickly and will clear out and be another cold morning tomorrow in the teens. afternoon highs just near freezing with sunshine on saturday, not much warmer on sunday either. a nice warmup as we get into next week. could get some rain on wednesday. that's the way it looks. bar practice? >> thank you, tom. the super bowl is one week away from sunday. perhaps the most important man

on the field the entire day is a 10-year-old young man. his name is hunter paulen. he joins us to explain. hey, hunter, you were chosen as the nfl's play 60 superkid. tell us how that happened. >> i just had to write like a tiny essay on the computer. >> you had to write some essays on the computer, and you were chosen. i can tell you love football because of the little shiner underneath your eye. how did that happen? >> i was playing with my friend kate. we were throwing the football up off the roof and see who could get it first. >> on the roof? wow. who got it first? >> kate got it, but she had to get to the concrete. so i just went to go snatch the ball away from her. >> and what happened? >> she ran into me. >> oh, man, she ran into you. hopefully, that goes away by next sunday in new orleans, when you get to hand the game ball to the official. how excited are you about the chance to do that? >> i'm really excited. >> what are you going to say to them when you hand them the ball, if anything?

>> i'm not sure yet. >> you're not sure? it's just going to come to you on the fly? >> yes. >> meantime, we can see right now, hunter, you are a big redskins fan. you are a big rg3 fan. you had a chance to meet him in december. what was that like? >> it was really, really cool. he gave me his glove. >> can we see them? you did bring some treats with you. >> yes. >> he gave you his glove, and you got some other things from redskins players you were telling me before the show. >> i got rg3's glove. >> that's a nice glove. you should keep that forever. what else did you get? you got one of our favorite guys on this show. he comes on every monday. >> chris cooley's glove. >> the cooley report. those are nice gloves. you can wear them, and they'll shine in the dark. one of the things you'll get to do in new orleans, hunter, is you get to hang out with the colts rookie quarterback andrew luck. he was drafted number one last year. rg3 was drafted number two. but you love rg3. are you going to tell andrew luck that you like rg3 better than him? >> no.

>> smart move, hunter. do not tell him that because that way you can be his friend for the weekend as well. you leave next tuesday, you were telling me, to go to new orleans. >> yes. >> are you really excited to be a part of the super bowl? >> yes. >> you have a big role. and one thing you've also done is you've had some big challenges in your life. you've had 11 talking to your mom and grandmom before the show, 11 heart procedures, 4 open heart procedures. for now, you can't play contact sports. do you miss it? do you miss playing those types of sports? >> well, i never could. and plus i can only like wrestle around with my brother and like my brother tackles me very lightly. >> very lightly. what do you say to other people? if you can be here and you can accomplish what you've accomplished after 11 heart procedures, what do you want to tell other kids who may have some struggles that they're facing? >> like conditions don't stop

you from being active and stay healthy. >> and don't stop you from achieving your dreams. >> yes. >> this is a dream come true for you. hunter paulen, thank you so much. make sure you tell andrew luck that rg3 is better and is going to be rookie of the year. but don't tell him i told you to say that. >> okay. >> good luck on your flight to new orleans. make sure you do a great handoff. thank you, hunter. >> you're welcome. the time is now 11:42. i wish i could go with hunter. still ahead on "news 4 midday," it's not the flu, but it's making a lot of people miserable.

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you about. prince william county schools are closing one hour early. we have more closings at the bottom of your screen and on nbcwashington.com. the cdc is urging you to be extra vigilant about washing your hands and being sure to prepare food properly. this as it deals with a new strain of stomach bugs. doctors say a strain of norovirus is spreading across the country and spreading quickly. they have already seen 140 outbreaks nationwide in the last four months. it's often spread in places like schools, cruise ships, and nursing homes. meantime, small gains on wall street this morning. let's check in with cnbc's julia boorstin. she joins us with that and the rest of the day's headlines. >> good morning to you, keith. they are small gains, but the markets are benefitting from a number of upbeat earnings reports, which are outweighing unexpected home sales. the dow is up about 1.5%. the dow is up about 6% for the month, and it's on track for the

best january performance since 1994. the s&p 500 is also higher by about a fraction of a percent, and the nasdaq is down a fraction of a percent. if the s&p closes higher today, that would be its longest winning streak since november of 2004, and just a correction there, the dow is up about .5%. new home sales fell 7.3% last month. however, sales for the entire year of 2012 were the best since 2009. and the housing sector still appears to be set to be a bright spot in the country's economic recovery. federal investigators say the boeing 787 bredreamliner battery that caught fire in boston has a chemical reaction that can cause temperature increases. the faa has grounded all six dreamliners operated by u.s. carriers after another battery failure forced an emergency landing in japan. in earnings news, procter & gamble beat expectations.

the stock is trading higher on the forecast that sales should rise at the higher end of the company's outlook. microsoft shares fell on revenue that is just short of expectations. netflix, that stock continues to sky rocket after jumping 40% yesterday on better than expected results. keith, back over to you. >> julia, good to see you. first lady michelle obama wowed us again this week with her beautiful ball gown and her incredibly toned arms. she continues to influence american fashion styles, especially the trend of sleeveless dresses and gowns. but for a lot of women, flaby arms are keeping them covered up. dr. steven hopping joins us this morning with what can be done to change the shape of a woman's arms. good morning to you. >> good morning, barbara. >> we know, because a lot of people try very hard to get those toned arms, and they just can't do it. exercise is sometimes not enough. so what's the answer? >> the answer -- well, to quote president obama, women want the

right to bare arms, b-a-r-e. sleeveless is in, no question. he's right. unfortunately, lots of times it's genetic. it's inherited. you have to work out. you have to maintain your weight. michelle obama, she respects nutrition. she respects exercise. so that's the first thing to do. but beyond that, there's still a problem for many women. if you've lost too much weight, you have to have a brachioplasty, which is surgery. but there's new techniques, and a recent survey shows that arm surgery, arm liposuction, especially with laser liposuction is up 25% over the past two years because of this phenomenon, going sleeveless. >> that's because the fashion is and probably because of the first lady, you see it on television, women who used to only wear jackets, they're going sleeveless now very often. >> it's definitely in. a lot of people are coming in. they don't want the big scar. fortunately, using laser assisted liposuction under local anesthesia, we can get 25% to

50% improvement in a lot of these patients. why? because the arm elasticity is very good. the arm elasticity, the skin can contract after these procedures. these advanced liposuction procedures can give you results like this. again, it's not for everybody. people who lost a lot of weight or who have poor skin elasticity have to do the old surgical approach. >> many people would be concerned about having sagging skin. >> exactly. some people do have to do the old fashioned brachioplasty. this is exciting, and patients are very happy with the surgery, and it's up 25% over the past year. >> should a person be in good physical condition anyway, or can you go in if you haven't been exercising and trying to get those arms down? >> absolutely. we tell everybody nutrition, exercise, do these things first. and even after you have the surgery, it's important to maintain the improvement. by doing exercise and doing things that will tone your arms. unfortunately, for a lot of women -- and this is a big

problem for women. 90% of women have this issues. these less invasive surgical procedures are now available for those people, and they don't have to go through the big operation. >> so you don't have to be put to sleep for this? it's done while you're awake. >> it's done under local anesthes anesthesia. >> and can you go right back to work? >> you have to wear a garment. you can go to work -- surllingen thursday and come back on friday. >> how much does it run? >> $5,000 for the operating room and the laser technology. >> for both arms? is >> seems like a high price to pay for thin arms, but you can look like michelle obama. we're not saying that's how she got hers. >> she got hers with genetics and exercise. michelle is influencing everything. next it will be bangs. >> thanks a lot, doctor. >> have a great weekend. >> thank you. it is 11:51 now. coming up, a look at what's new at the movies. plus meteorologist tom kierein will be back with another check

we have a past. we almost died at the hands of a witch. >> coming up, it is a dark spin on a children's fairy tale. "h "hansel and gretel witch hunters" go after anything that can lead to a spell and they fall into a trap. looking for something on the funnier side, "movie 43" bans together a comedy ensemble. it's a series of interconnecteded short films as the characters search for the world's most banned movies, and

they're not afraid to offend people in the process. and jason statham is a modern day robin hood in the new thriller "parker." he plays a smooth criminal who gets double crossed and left for dead but survives the betrayal and looks to even the score. "park "parker" is rated "r." that's some of what's new at the box office. a look at some of the stories we'll be following on news 4 in the afternoon. pat lawson muse joins us in the newsroom. >> coming up at news 4 at 4:00 this afternoon, we're staying on top of the snow headed our way. also, cracking down on liquor sales on football's biggest night. what the mayor of san francisco wants to do to keep things calm on super bowl sunday, win or lose. and tonight on news 4 at 5:00, we'll take a closer look at a new strain of the norovirus that is very nasty. find out the impact this virus has on our region in a special

news 4 your health report. >> thank you, pat. and tom joins us again now with another look at that forecast. snow on the way? >> probably just a very light snow for most of the region later this afternoon. right now storm team 4 radar very deceiving. it looks like it's snowing across virginia, maryland, and the district, but it is drying up before it reaches the ground. going to take a while for the air to get saturated enough. so dry at the surface. keep the skin lotion handy. every time you walk across the carpet and turn on a light switch, you get a little zap of static electricity, it's so dry. some of those bright white areas in west virginia, it is reaching the ground. out ahead of that, temperatures just down to the low to mid-20s. not much more of a warmup, maybe only getting into the upper 20s. another couple of hours around the metro area and the bay. elsewhere, we'll stay low to mid-20s. and it's coming to probably around 8:00 p.m., as late as 9:00 p.m., exiting the eastern shore by 10:00 p.m., and leaving in its wake only a dusting to an

inch most of the area. the dark blue areas east of washington right near the bay and on the eastern shore, maybe an inch or two more out of the mountains. sun for the weekend. still cold. teens for the morning, saturday and sunday afternoons only the low 30s. monday near 40. increasing clouds. near 50 tuesday. mid-50s wednesday. could get rain. we'll have frequent updated through the afternoon. keep you posted. it's a very light snow event. >> that's "news 4 midday." thanks for joining us. >> we'll be back monday morning at 11:00 a.m. with "news 4 midday." midday." hope you'll plan to join us for, you can do more business per second. and with more reliable internet, that's more per second. and with a dedicated line, it's more per second. and with an additional line, it's more... table for 15? [ male announcer ] ...per second. but most importantly, it's more... mmm!

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