and the understatement is that no one ever expected this. >> will the united states hand her over to the italian police? >> nbc news justice correspondent pete williams joins us live. "news4 at 4," starts right now. and developing right now at 4:00, spuper super bowl terror fears and suspicious letters and white powder deliver eed theer e site of the big game. >> and a singhole shuts down parts of massachusetts avenue for ten days. >> and suspicious letters and those suspicious letters that we are going to talk about it, with but first a sus pitor story abo

super bowl. chris? >> yes, we are just getting in information about this in the last few minutes. the fbi have been investigating a suspicious yellow and white powder mailed to five new jersey tels near the site of the super bowl, and now the fbi are saying that the initial tests have -- they will do some additional tests on the powder to be sure, but preliminary tests, again, show nothing, nothing poisonous, and hazardous materials team were out checking out the substance in the last few hours to determine what it is, and fbi and police officials in renaissance inn in ooet -- east rutherford, and others found at an eco know lodge. and parts of massachusetts avenue is shutdown for what is called a washout. adam tuss, our transportation e

reporter, is live to tell us what it will take to fix the problem, and what it will mean for the drivers. >> well, it is quite a scene, pat. first, with we want to walk up close to where we can get to the washout here. this is the side of massachusetts avenue, and you can see where the roadway ends and then it drops off into the cliff there. and this all started yesterday as an eight-inch water main underneath the road here broke. take a walk here. this is what we have, a gas line that is broken down, and now the gas company is out here, and they have to fix that gas line, before the water crews can then come out after them, and dig up this whole intersection at 34th place and massachusetts avenue and quite a mess. we want to show you the video that we shot are from down in front of the massive canyon. you can't get a good idea of it until you are staring it right in the face and taking a look at it. it is massive when you climb down there and see what is

actually going on down in the area. and now i want to come back out here live and show you just how much part of massachusetts avenue, southeast is actually closed. you can see the road closure signs down there and the cars making the detour on to 34th street, and not placed 34th stree street, and they will have to go that way and 7,000 cars a day close the road to ddot and all of the way down there, and you can see the traffic cones and yes, as you mentioned in the intro, this road could be shutdown for 7 to 10 days, and you should not expectuse this road for seven to ten weeks, and we will tell you about the detour around this area, if you use it, and you will want to the hear it. and reporting live in the southeast, adam tuss, news4. an air force reserve officer is facing child porn charges in southeast washington. and when we check in with chris lawrence again. >> yes, the man just appeared in d.c. court to face charges of

distributing child porn. we got a list of the charges, and it is graphic. basically the indz cover officer went online and posted a ad on craigs list trying to lure someone who was interest ed in child pornography, and they began a chat, a yahoo! chat back and forth and in the process of the chat, the allegations are that major riley didroduce multiple images of child pornography, and very, very egregious image, and now sh, he charged with distributing child pornography, and he was arrested yesterday afternoon at ft. mcnair. he is based in tampa, but e up here to attend a course at the university. at the news desk, live, i'm chris lawrence. >> thank you, chris. a d.c. officer is facing

charges today for stealing from the property. officer rodney williams is charged with take things out of the evidence control branch where evidence is seized, and he has been on the fost since 1990. police have identified the victims of two victims the bodies of ervin ingraham and r oonn oonnetta hurley-brown were found dead in the place. there were two children under the age of 5 at the time, and they were not injured. the poce say they are now with child protective services. new at 4:00, pictures just released by police in montgomery county of a suspect in a bank r robbry in july 13th, and the police say that he passed a note e demanding money of a teller on chevy chase. he implied that he had a weapon,

but police are not saying how much money he got away with, and if you think that you know who he is, please contact the montgomery county police. and finally, we have said good-bye temporarily to the frigid temperatures, and we ve blue skies and sunshine today, and t, s00ps+ is >> yes, we can already feel it, and a lot of people are saying, let's find out how long it is >> and that is right. the temperatures into the 50s and a taste of march and spring and early mar thatch is. temperatures were toppeded out in the mid-50s and we are at 50 degrees right now under a partly sunny sky with the light wind out there and it is not going to be a bad evening at all, and the temperatures are dropping off slowly and the influence of the 37 much cooler reading at the pax river, and up in annapolis where it is 33 right now, and coming into the western viewing area, in petersburg, and in

virginia, it is 53 in culpepper, virgin virginia, and the night forecast is not that the bad and not that cold. 36 degrees when we get into the 30s at 9:00 with a few clouds and then down to 34 by 11:00 p.m., and the cold will continue the ease as we push will through and we go are from the chilly conditions to mild conditions, and again, it is not going to stay that way. we are going to turn cold and we have a couple of storm systems to talk about comingpx are 0bg outrage this afternoon after a security company uses a photo from the sandy hook

construction workers at the washington monument were stuck in a dangerous situation today. d.c. fire officials got a call to the monument this morning, because some workers were trapped inside of the elevator. it took firefighters about 20 minutes to get the workers out. this is actually the second time this week that the repair workers got stuck inside of the monument's e elevator and not clear how many workers were trapped inside of the elevator though. and sizable losses on the stock market, and trouble in overseas markets and disappointing results from amazon.com are getting the blame for the sell-off today. the dow ended the day down 120 points. this afternoon, yahoo! is learning more about the hackers who hit its site and the company is asking users to reset their passwords. yahoo! believes that the attack was a coordinated effort to gain

access to users' accounts using malicious malware similar to what was used in target, and credentials have also been stolen from another company that has yet to be named. a glass company in south carolina has apologized for using a photo from sandy hook el elementary school for selling w windows. it shows the shotout entrance of the connecticut elementary school where 20 children and 6 educators were killed in 2012. the ad claims that the company's special window covering can stop bullets and keep the intruders out, and the company said it did not plan to profit from the tragedy and it understands that the e-mail was incensensitive a unnecessary. >> what you need to know live about the cameras around the city. and seth myers

no more warnings. the grace period ends tomorrow for d.c. drivers who are caught on camera. >> and it is not just speeders and running lights that the cameras are catching. daryle ward explains what else you need to get used to.

>> always at the ready to nab the speeders and red light runners, but as of february, there are 100 more online and capturing the pictures of the motorists who don't stop for pedestrians in the crosswalks and also cameras who will flash those who roll through the stop sign and motorists who roll flu the area that is too narrow for them. and the coffers have been swelling with revenue fines, but it is a safety issue for e pedestrians and cyclists while those of the motorists have gone down sharply. you can't argue with the success. >> i like to argue about my parking tickets and i was right, darn it. >> reporter: it was supposed to end at the beginning of the month, but the city decided to issue the citations from the cameras were warnings, but now it is not. change meets resistance.

>> is that a breathalyzer as l well? >> well, that is a good question. maybe that is next. >> reporter: and roll through the stop sign or block the box, and that will get you a $50 ticket, and all of the other infraction infractions are going to net $250 in fines. daryle ward. and a tomorrow is seth myers last appearance as a regular on "saturday night live." the weekend writer and host is going to move to late night to take the over for jimmy fallon, and earlier he was a guest on fallon's show, and he got the late night pickle. he has been with "saturday night live" since 2001 and the head wrighter for the past two years, and he has been nominated for seven emmys for his work on the show. >> i am going to miss him on "snl" and now i can't stay up late without him. but i will have to stay up.

>> and turning to the weather which is turning warm final ly. >> right. 15 to 20-degree temperature change up and down the east coast, folks. >> should we get used to the it? >> well, for the weekend. funny thing is that when the weather turns like this, you know, the thank yous start to come in, and hey, take you back, and that is i don't make the weather, but just report it, and i can feel the pain and have felt it over the last few days, and this has been a nice change for us. outside, we do have a few clouds and 50 degrees the temperature, and oh, my goodness, we are g going to to be crazy this evening and the sunset is 5:28 and by 7:00, with we are down by 40 degrees and then it is chilly if you are out late this evening, and then eventually, cold, but the fact is that it is not frigid and deep cold but it stays with us for hours, and little more towards the average taking place here for the overnight period. our storm team 4 radar is scanning the area, and nothing to report right here, and on sunday, a slight chance of a

passing shower, and we will talk about the weather headlines again tonight, and not near lysa cold, and the temperatures will be dropping off this time into the 20s for at least two days this week, and tuesday and wednesday when the high temperatures were in the 20s like this, the and overnight, you will drop to in or 24, and culpepper is the overnight temperature in fredericksburg, and in quantico, you will be dropping down 27 by tomorrow morning with a few clouds around e area. and get ready to thaw out, and look at southern maryland, folks. culpepper, and fredericksburg, and la plata is showing a high of 53. a chance that the numbers and the temperatures could be slightly higher. once again, we will have a few clouds around the area, and still looking at the winter weather though coming our way next week. we start first with the big game day, and this is sunday's hourly forecast. and 1:00 we are mild and 53 degrees to top out at 55 around 2:00, and head on down to 50 by

4:00, and knnotice the cloud cor was throughout the day. it is going to p be whil chilly by 9:10 p.m. sunday evening and the temperature is 42, and right now, all of sunday is looking dry and plenty mild. the thing is that on monday, we have to get ready for what is just a little bit of the snow moving into the area. right now, it is light accumulati accumulation, and right now, the event should be overwith by 1:00 or 2:00 in the afternoon on monday, and saturday's high is 52 and sunday up to 55, and a 60% chance of snow right now with the high temperature of 39 degrees for monday. certainly a storm system that we are g are going to be watching closely, and of course, the good news, if there is any for early part of next week after all of the parting on sunday is that with the high temperatures, this warm, i don't think that we will have any major road issues to deal with on monday. coming up, another storm after this one and i will show you this one in a few minutes.

>> and right now, the flames ripped through this town home in sterling monday, and one of the homeowners is in intensive care, and his five dogs were in the house when the fire broke out, and firefighters rescued four of them. one of the firefighters has started and online fund-raiser to help pay for the dogs' medical bills and find them temporary shelter. and researchers in france say that football fans consume more calories when their team is losing than when they win. and the binging usually continues into the next day, and they also found that people who live in cities where the football team is are from c consume more calories and foods higher in saturated fats. they say that binging this the super bowl is okay, but don't continue it on the day-to-day basis. >> i guess not.

i'm liz crenshaw. why do they use roman numeral to number the super bowls? that is a question i will answer on "ask liz" on "news4 at 4." and did the klumcolumbia ma shooter act alone? we will

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. does the cold weather have an affect on car engine oil? and why do they use roman numerals to number the super bowl? and why can't you keep your own phone number with a different carrier? and we have a friday edition of "ask liz." so let's talk about the first question, because jackie says that the check oil light comes on in the extreme cold weather, and she has seen it happen a few times, and does the cold affect the oil? >> well, that is interesting question, and the aaa atlanta says that there could be a correlation of the oil light and the cold weather, and typically when the engine oil light comes on, you should check the oil level as it could be low, but with the freezing weather, the oil light may not mean low oil. that is because in the extreme cold oil thickens and it does

not flow as quickly to vital parts of the en gyp and to combat the cold, try starting the car and running it for at least one minute before you drive and that is going to help warm up the oil, an aaa says that the maintenance varies from the car to car, and check the owner's manual, and get the oil level checked if it the light does not disappear. >> and the next question comes from a viewer jim, why do they use the roman numeral to number the super bowl instead of the regular numbers? >> well, as we wait for super bowl xlviii this sunday or x-l-v-i-i-i. it all started with the super bowl five with the letter v, and it is credited to lamar hunt who founded the american football league and one of the godfathers of the modern nfl, and by using the roman numerals instead of the regular numbers, hunt made the game seem, get this, more important, and that is all there is to it, and maybe it keeps us to remembering the roman n

numerals. >> well, i would not have known from the xlviii. >> yes. >> and the last question is about switching the cell phone carriers, and how can you switch the carrier and keep your number. >> everybody wants to do that and the fcc, the federal communications commission told us do not terminate service with the existing company before initiating service with the new company, and then contact the new company, and be prepared to the provide all of your current account information, and which might include your password for logging on to the account, and also important to note that some of the companies may charge fees for the cost incurred to switch your number from the old provider to the new. if you have a question that you'd like us to consider for "ask liz" send it to ask liz@washington.com, or send it to twitter or on facebook, and coming up on "news4 at 5:00," how do the salt treatments on the road affect the paint on the car, and how do reissued credit cards affect your credit score,

and if you have a yahoo! e-mail account, how do you protect yourself with the problem they had earlier in the week? >> thank you. and president obama calls for ceos to get long-term unemployed workers back on the job. and amanda knox vows to fight the new murder conviction

good afternoon, i'm pat lawson muse. >> and i'm barbara harrison. there is apparently no threat from the suspicious white powder that was sent to hotels near the super bowl. they were found in east rutherford, and a law enforcement agent tells nbc news

that it is all negative and appears to be a hoax. additional tests on the powder will be done though as a precaution. and a reservist is behind bars on suspicions of child porn. david mcnair appeared in d.c. superior court a few hours ago, and police say that he sent images of child porn over to the internet to a police officer, and riley is a reservist reportedly assigned to macdill air force base and he is in washington for a national security class. >> a 6-inch water main broke, and crews are working to repair a broken gas main, and it is going going to be shutdown for a week, we are told. and some workers got stuck in the d.c. tower today. it took 20 minutes for them to get out. it is the second time this week

that the repair workers got stuck in the monument's elevator, and it is not clear how many workers were trapped. 100 new cameras go online tomorrow, and tickets will be replacing warnings for the traffic law violators and also it will capture those who do not stop for pe des trayians or roll through a stop sign or even bust truckers who are driving ob street s th streets that -- on streets that are deemed too narrow or the them. we have breaking news right now out of new jersey and the bridge scandal enveloping chris christie's administration. our nbc correspondent michael isikoff is here with a new development. >> a bombshell into the george washington bridge lane closures. the lawyers for david wildstein who was the port authority official who ordered those lane closures has just written, and released the letter that he has sent to the head of the port

authority in which he says that governor christie had knowledge of the lane closures in the period when the lanes were closed contrary to what the governor stated public any a two-hour press conference he gave immediately before mr. wildstein was scheduled to appear before the transportation committee. mr. wildstein contests the accuracy of various statements that the governor made about him, and he can prove the inaccuracy of some. this is about as big a development as we could get in this investigation. governor christie, of course, he has adamantly denied that he had any knowledge of those lane closures. and he knew nothing about it, and he said that he was stunned and shocked when his, when he learned that his aides had been involved in this, and he fired the deputy chief of staff, and fired his former campaign manager, and now david wildstein, a long-time political

aide to governor christie and they went to high skochool together, and they go back years has now written this letter saying governor christie has not told the full story. >> and wildstein said when and how he plans to release the proof? >> he has not. there is a, of course sh, a criminal investigation by the u.s. attorney in newark, and mr. wildstein's lawyer has hinted that he may want immunity as part of some sort of cooperation deal, and so that this letters appears to be an effort to get that immunity the deal ha he is looking for. >> and michael, quickly, this is going to be having widespread fallout, and what impact do you expect it to have, and has christie had any response to this? >> this just broke, and we do not yet have a response from the governor's office, and we can expect one, but, look, everybody's going to want to know now to to see the proof, and what does david wildstein has and hear what he has to.

>> thank you, michael isikoff. >> thank you. and there is still no agreement in congress to restore long-term unemployment benefits for those who have been out of work for several months or mo, and today, president obama made a move to help the workers get up who are trying to get a job. steve handelsman is live on capitol hill with more on this. steve? >> well, thank you, pat. it is a statistical fact the longer you are out of work, the harder it is to get hire d and president obama said today, that is is not fair. >> reporter: corporateeo came to the white house, and the heads of ebay, and boeing and marriott and others to join president obama's push to help the long-term unemployed. 4 million americans have been out of work for more than six months, and studies show that fact alone hurts their prospects. >> so if are the are two people who are identical, and one person has been unemployed for

longer than the other person, then the employer will say that maybe the person who is unemployed for shorter period of time is a little bit better. >> reporter: mr. obama has 300 companies to hire without taking into account how long someone has been looking, and he signed an order to make that the government policy. >> so today, i am directing every federal agency to make shure that we are evaluating th candidates on the level without regard to their employment history. >> reporter: it is another obama move without congress. but on immigration, the white house sees a chance for cooperation. yesterday, the republicans said they would allow the 12 million undocumented immigrants to stay in the u.s., and not on the path to citizenship which most of the democrats want, but not to be deported as the republicans once demanded. >> now, there is movement. that is a good thing. >> reporter: and a deal on immigration again looks possible.

a republican leaders here in the election year figure they better be seen working with the president on this issue or suffer in the polls again punished by latino voters like they have been before. i'm steve handelsman, news4. >> thank you, steve. and apparently, he lied in his way or lied about the clean bill of mental the health. new details on the d.c. navy yard shooter. and plus, did the columbia mall gunman act alone? and what warning signs should parents be in the lookout for in their own children. doreen gentzler and

aaron alexis the gunman who killed 12 people at the navy yard lied about his mental state. a new report says that he was so convincing that the veteran affairs doctors concluded that he had no mental health issues and that according to the associated press who reviewed the records. the v.a. doctors said he had no mental issues despite other problems and run-ins with the police. he denied any suicidal thoughts or thoughts overkilling anyone else, and one doctor who treated him for insomnia said no problem there and doctors cleared him just weeks before the shooting rampage last year. and the latest on the columbia mall shooting, and we are learning about more about

darion aguilar, and police say that on the morning of the shooting he met somebody at wendy's at burtonville. an employee said that she recognized him as a person who had been hanging around with other local people. and he had take anne cab to that location, and tomorrow at the mall, there is a moment of silence in honor of the two workers killed. so many of the mass shootings involve young adults and that is leaving parents wondering if there are warning signs to look out for, and doreen gentzler is here with dr. pat wir. >> yes, thank you. he specializes in adult and adolescent psychiatry. >> thank you, doreen. >> there are an abundant of stories about mental health connected with the mass shootings with creigh davis'

son, and others have been w wondering if there are warning signs to look out for. >> well, the big thing here is that the parents oftentimes see the warning signs, but they don't act on the warning signs which is the problem here, and everybody is more or less familiar with the things that you need to look out for, and is there a change in the personality, and is your son or daughter sleeping a lot, withdrawing, isolating, angry, irritable the, and all of those thing thes, and people can recognize, that and the problem is that they don't do anything about it, and they think it is a phase or maybe they will grow out of it, and maybe they are having a tough time with it, and not seeking the appropriate help that the gut is telling them they should seek. >> and what should parents do if they are concerned about a change in the behavior? >> well, first you sit down with the child and you say, i'm

conce concerned about the way things are going, and these are some of the things that i have been noticing and have you noticed this with yourself at all and are you concerned about the way things are go g fing for you an based upon what you are hearing, it is going to give you more information and make a decision as to whether you need to take a next step and if you do, say to the child, look, i'm really worried about you and i would like for you the sit down and talk to somebody who has experience in helping kids with these problems. this is not what i do, and now somebody else can help me with this, and there is nothing wrong with you and nothing to be ashamed of and everybody needs help and in fact, 1 of 4 people in this country meets criteria for some mental health issue, and you are not alone and it is good to get help, and you need the help. >> and a vast majority of the people with the mental illness never become violent and red flags for people who could have potential violent behavior? >> well, violence is so difficult to predict, and it is incredibly hard to predict even as a psychiatrist, and generally, you are looking for a few warning signs.

and number one, it is generally men, young men, and that is one warning sign, and the other is that if you have a history of violence and the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, and has the person had issues with anger, and do they have a drug or alcohol problem, because if they have a mental health issue, and you combine it with drugs or alcohol, that is a dangerous cocktail there. >> and thank you so much for joining us, and communication between the parent and the child is the most important thing of all. >> and absolutely. you have to know your child. >> and back to you, barbara and pat. can amanda knox fight extradition after she is convicted of murder again? we will talk to pete williams about it when we return. and a school lunch lady is put on leave after trashing kids' food at lunch. >> and count down, we have 48 more days left, and that means

lots of winter left, and we have several snow chances with the stormy pattern and i will tell you the next chance of snow when "news4 at 4" returns.

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going to fight this up till the very end. >> that is amanda knox on "good morning america" today reacting to the reinstatement of the guilty verdict in the murder of her former roommate meredith kercher. and they e reinstated the murder verdict handed down to her and her ex-boyfriend raffaele sollecito. today, eye titalian police took sollecito into custody near the austrian border, and knox returned to the u.s. after 2011 after an appeals court acquitted her. she can stay here in this country until the appeals process continues, and that could take a year. while knox is vowing to fight the verdict, her former boyfriend has surrendered his passport to the italian police, and it has brought attention to the intricacies to the italian judicial system.

>> and there are three trials with different conclusions. and here to explain all of this is correspondent pete williams. and pete, good to have you with us, but what is the next move for her? >> well, she will appeal, and last time it worked for her, and they in essence threw it out and it is now the second round that convicted her and she is undoubtedly going to appeal again in the eye titalian court >> and how many times can she do that? >> well, i'm not sure, but if they keep coming up with new grounds, they can keep doing i. >> and will the u.s. extradite her? >> well, that is a good question, because it is a complicated process. while extradition is not just a legal process, but it is a diplomatic process. if she is ultimately convicted in the italian courts, they would seek her extradition, and go to the state department, and embassy in washington, and the state department, and ask her to be sent back, and the secretary of state would decide whether this request would conform with the extradition treaty with italy and whether it is in the u.s. foreign policy interest. and if the state says yes, it goes to the justice department

and then referred to prosecutor in seattle where she lives, and if the judge orders her extradited, then it goes back to the secretary of state who would make the ultimate decision. it is not just a decision for the courts or just for the justice department, but it is also a diplomatic decision, and of course, the secretary the of state could say it is an american, and we won't send her back, and it makes it harder if we want people in italy to be sent here, and it is not an easy decision to make. >> and pete, a lot of people wonder if she faces real prison time if she goes back to italy? >> if she goes back and convicted, absolutely. she would be in prison for 30 years, and although time off for good behavior and perhaps lower than that, but you can perhaps understand why she is not eager to go back. >> and why a difference of opinion? why back and forth and one court overturning the other? >> well, it has to do with the nature of the evidence, and the murkiness of the case, and the fact that there were other people there and the evidence is not clear and it has been a close call for the courts.

>> and what about the italian boyfriend, would he, and they found him at the border, they say, and he says he was visiting his girlfriend, and he'll go back now, but he does not have to go the prison, right? >> weblg his case can be on appeal as well, and he can be on the same stay the tus as her out on bail while the case is appealed. >> thank you, pete williams. >> my pleasure. and stay tuned for right after "news4 at 4," the amanda knox verdict, and pete will have more coming up on the nbc nightly news with brian williams. and talk thing about the weather now, as we are experiencing the e beginning of a warmup out there. >> and a warming trend, and this is going to take us right through the weekend and then once again, the temperatures will have the brakes put on it, and that means with the air that is going to be chilly and turning cold, and storms moving in. we will be back to really being on the guard out there and a light wind and let me show you the planner forecast at 5:28 here, and look at most of the evening, if you have plans to go

utmost of the evening the temperatures will remain above the freezing mark, and folks, compared to where it has been that means it is pretty comfortable evening. i am calling it chilly instead of cold as we drop down the 36 by 9:00 and 34 by 11:00 p.m., and then under the freezing mark. of course, under 30 in the morning, but the range is 22 to 30 and those were more like the high temperatures in the days this week, a bd a few clouds are expected to cross the area. and let many e show you southern maryland tomorrow the, because it is likely to be some of the warmer spots, and in the water, cooler, and 53 is the higher temperature in huntingtown, and in mechanicsville with a high of 54. and so it will be under a partly cloudy sky. and the storm system a couple of weeks ago we were talking about the clippers moving through west to east, and now it is a pattern change where it is milder moving in and we will see the storms moving out of the south, and

that means a chance to gather more moisture, and it means that the storms have also a chance to dump potentially more snowfall on the area, and here is the thing, and over the next couple of days really, the temperatures are borderline cold and we are talking about the snow monday after a nice weekend and getting it to the low and mid-50s, and low is 39 and high temperature with the snow, and tuesday night and wednesday morning and we will be starting out in the low 30s to a high temperature of 50 degrees, and may see a little bit of the freezing rain on wednesday, and of course, you have probably heard the talk of the weekend after next, and another big storm, but again, just like wednesday here of next week, i think that our temperatures will be borderline cold. so way too early to talk about what that system is going to be bringing, and how much snowfall or if it is even going to be snow, and it will continue to track it out in the guidance that we look at. back to you, barbara and pat. >> thank you, veronica. >> the winter games in sochi

kick off a week from today, and with much anticipation, today, president obama weighed in on the security concerns. he says that he believes that the olympic games will be safe, and that russia understands the stakes involved in securing the games and the potential threats. the olympic venues in sochi are now among the most tightly guarded facilities in the world. with more than 100,000 police and security agents now on patrol there, and today, we learned that the sochi games are also the most expensive games ever. the price tag is some $50 billion, and that includes $9.5 billion just to build the new rail lines and roads and tunnels between the olympic villages. our own jim handly is there in sochi blogging behind the scenes and brigging us live reports on news4 throughout the games. make sure you follow along on facebook by following jim's page or on twitter @jimhandly.

no such thing as a free lunch. some parents are fuming after school lunches were tossed this the trash right in front of them. what were the school lunchroom workers thinking?

trouble on board another cruise ship. the caribbean princess arrived home in texas late last night two days earlier than plan ned after more than 170 passengers and crew members got sick. the highly contagious norovirus to blame again. officials with the center thes for disease control were on the ship again to ensure that it is properly sanitized. earlier this week, royal

caribbean's "explorer of the seas" went home early after some 700 people got sick with the same illness. parents were outraged after an elementary school throws out school lunches for some students. it happened to more than 30 chirp in salt lake city, and some parents say that the students were humiliated by the whole ordeal. >> and mike taibbi spoke to the school district about why they took the children's lunches? >> it is indefensible. >> reporter: politicians including the state senator called it an outrage of the students attending the utah state school and words lit up with pathetic, and shame, and how could anyone take the l lunches out of 30 or 40 kids and then throw the lunches away, because their parents had zero or negative balances in the meal accounts. they were thrown away, because once it is served to a s