sinkhole. good evening. i'm jim vance. >> i'm doreen gentzler. we saw the pictures this morning, a car swallowed up after a water main break in bladensburg, maryland. here's how it looked this afternoon after all that water and the car had been removed. we're learning what's next for this neighborhood. will this hole continue to grow? news4's kristin wright is live with more on that. kristin? >> reporter: doreen the water main is fixed, but the sinkhole itself still needs to be filled. we're told asphalt is being shipped in from out of state for what wssc is calling large-scale repairs. so new tonight at 6:00 we wanted to know if the sinkhole poses any threat to people in the neighborhood tonight. wssc replaced the 90-year-old water main on eld eddmonston road in balance of trade. still left a six feet deep sinkhole that almost swallowed a car with a family in it this morning. 7-year-old mainer mendoza, his little sisters and parents got out just in time.

>> i thought the car was going to go deep down. >> reporter: the sinkhole caused by the water main break is right off the family's front door and steps from the neighbors, some nervous. >> i'm not going to touch my car today. i'm not going to move it because i don't want to move it and same thing happen to him happen to me. >> reporter: wssc says it won't get bigger. >> it's not a sinkhole where we see cars or houses swallowed into the earth. we know why this happened. it's localized, contained. there's no danger of it spreading. >> reporter: the family that escaped their car, lost their vehicle, and their home is flooded. they trudged through the wet street carrying what they could of their belongings. a little boy with quite the story. >> my dad didn't know the hole was right there, and -- and then he -- he said to get out of the car. >> reporter: wssc is putting up mainer and his family in a hotel

tonight. looich in bladensburg, kristin wright news4. >> thanks kristin. the winter storm that brushed our area is still causing some big problems to the north. a look right now just outside plymouth massachusetts, where as many as 100 people might have to leave their homes because of a breach in the seawall. adam tuss at live desk. >> no question this storm is huge in scope but we're getting an idea just how much damage it's causing and what it's going to take to clean all of this up. experts say the economic impact will be somewhere around half a billion dollars. of that the u.s. travel association says that's what cancellations are going to cost the country's economy. around $230 million, that's actually less than what experts predicted because the storm simply didn't dump as much snow in some places as expected. here's what a lot of people are talking about. a national weather service meteorologist in new jersey is actually apologizing to lawmakers there for mobilizing

for a storm that turned out to be not so bad in that region. he tweeted, "you made a lot of tough decisions expecting us to get it right and we didn't." places like new jersey and new york imposed travel bans. most of those have been lifted. should be easier to travel to the northeast tomorrow. amtrak says it is restoring normal service between d.c. and new york city tomorrow for acela express and northeast regional trains. there will however, still be a modified schedule for trains continuing on up to boston and on lines throughout new england. the airports are expected to be really crowded tomorrow but we're told planes will be flying. right now flightaware.com is reporting just over 500 flights canceled for tomorrow. about 20 of the cancellations already announced for tomorrow are at airports in our area.

here in d.c. the concern not the snow but the cold. any of those sidewalks that haven't been shoveled are definitely going to freeze up tonight. let's get a first look at the forecast. here's doug. temperatures thab in the teens. windchills tomorrow will be in the sinls and teens all day. how much snow did we see from this event? philadelphia saw 1.2 inches 3.5 in gaithersburg. light snow showers around the region. these are delight lyght flurries that will continue. the storm system is bringing in colder air and this eve fng you're going out bundle up. temperatures drop beg low freezing in the city 29 degrees by 11:00, windchill by 11:00

down to 17 18 degrees. we'll show you how cold things are then we have once again two more storms in the forecast. breaking news about that hotel attack in libya and a lee cal connection. this is a picture of american victim david barry. he worked for crucible in fredericksburg virginia. the company's ceo just released a statement saying "today our company was a victim of a terrorist attack. our company mourn this extraordinary loss with his family and friends." barry was among at least five international guests killed at the corinthia hotel in tripoli, libya, this morning after gunmen burst into the hotel. three forwards are also reported dead from a car bomb blast in parking lot. associates of the islamic militant group isis are claiming responsibility for the attack. the pentagon is disputing reports there has been a decision to charge army santiago

bowe bergdahl with desertion. senior officials tell nbc news news bergdahl is likely to face a lesser charge of desertion because he allegedly walked away from his post in afghanistan more than five years ago. steve handelsman is on capitol hill to make some sense of all this. steve? >> reporter: jim, thanks. if bergdahl does get charged with desertion politically that's a blow to president obama, undercutting the president's rationale for the prisoner swap that freed this american soldier. >> my name is bowe bergdahl. >> reporter: the charge of te desertion is so serious it can mean decades in prison and the pentagon today denied prosecutors have agreed to that charge. >> no decision has been made with respect to the case of sergeant bergdahl. none. >> reporter: but military sources tell nbc news bowe bergdahl will be charged with desertion, abandoning his combat post in afghanistan in 2009 putting at risk fellow soldiers.

>> he deserted not only the army but he also left myself and my platoon and my company to clean up his mess. >> reporter: six soldiers died during the fruitless search for bergdahl. >> there are still people out there that never came back, and it's because he walked away. >> reporter: bergdahl became a taliban prisoner locked up for five years, but when he was free picked up by u.s. special forces, there was little celebration. even in his hometown in idaho. bergdahl had been swapped for five taliban leaders. critics warning the five would rejoin the fight against the u.s. president obama, who had flown bergdahl's parents to washington to play up his release, quickly went defensive. >> we still get an american soldier back. >> reporter: if bergdahl is charged with desertion, what's his lawyer's defense? >> he did leave but didn't intend to desert, to join the enemy, he simply was going awol for a limited period and they might throw in something that he was captured and therefore against his will he was not able to return.

>> reporter: if he's charged, bergdahl could make a deal and plead guilty. sources tell nbc news if bergdahl is charged with a lesser kind of desertion he could get off for time served, the five years he was locked up by the taliban. if he agrees to leave the military and give up his $300,000 in back pay. steve handelsman news4. the secret service isn't revealing the name of the man who reportedly admitted the drone breach at the white house was a drunken mishap. a source tells nbc news it was a government employee who told investigators he had been drinking before he decided to test out a friend's quad copter drone. it landed on the south lawn of the white house and sparked a security scare yesterday. president obama, who was out of the country at the time is calling for stricter federal drone management. the p and the first lady's international trip continued today with a visit to an important u.s. ally in saudi arabia. they paid their respects to the

late king abdullah who died on friday. president obama also had his first formal meeting with abdullah's brother and successor, king salman. before that meeting, the president said concerns with saudi arabia's reported human rights abuses must be balanced with that country's cooperation on fighting terror in that region. it's one of the most infamous symbols of the horrors of world war ii an expanse of gas chambers mass graves and labor camps called auschwitz. 70 years ago today that camp was liberated. new at 6:00, the d.c. community is remembering that day and news4's chris gordon is speaking with prisoners who made it out of there alive. >> reporter: january 27th 1945 the liberation of auschwitz, the nazi concentration camp in occupied poland where more than 1 million people were killed starved, or worked to death. >> i have been once in

auschwitz, i have been twice, and twice escaped with my mother and sister. it wasn't easy the three of us to come out alive. >> reporter: today, 70 years later, survivors, ambassadors, and diplomats attended this ceremony for international holocaust remembrance day. ♪ they said cadish the hebrew prayer honoring those who died. this woman was born in hungary and now lives in arlington, virginia. at auschwitz her mother insisted the family must stay together or they would not survive alone. her mother's words saved her life when it caused her at age 13 to stand up to the infamous ss dr. joseph manageela. >> he sent my mother to the right side and my sister also and to me he said you go to the left side. as scared as i was, i told him no please let me go to the right side. >> reporter: steven was born in

yugoslavia and now lives in rockville, maryland. >> people who have been in auschwitz, the majority were there three or four days and then they were picked up as slave laborers to go somewhere to work. i was there five mos, so i went through a lot of things including hiding to avoid the gas chamber. >> reporter: he says he believes it's his responsibility to speak out so the atrocities he witnessed are not forgotten. at the u.s. holocaust memorial museum chris gordon news4. still to come tonight an armed robbery in a busy section of alexandria. the same store hit twice in a matter of months. police video from both cases. a group of well-known high school football players caught up in a triple shooting in our area. how the school is respondin when the students return tomorrow. there they are down in glendale, arizona, media day.

tonight, a big leak near 16th and k in downtown washington. water spewed out onto the roads there. no watt for now part of the intersection is closed. that leak is said to be coming from a 30-inch pipe underground. and the cold weather continues to hit our area.

homeless shelters are filling up. more than 1,100 homeless children are living with their families in d.c. shelters and 1,400 single men and women are also living in city shelters. earlier this month we told you d.c. general is now at capacity. the city is leasing hundreds of hotel rooms to handle the overflow. tomorrow the region will start its annual point in time count of the homeless population. students at a high school in prince george's county will go back to class tomorrow for the first time since three of their classmates were injured in a shooting. counselors will be on hand to help any student who needs it. 16-year-old delano dunmoore is facing charges after he shot two of his classmates and then shot himself. all three played on the high school's football team. just a few weeks ago that team won the division ii state championships. police say the shooting happened in dunmoore's home in clinton, maryland on sunday afternoon

after an argument over video game. one of the victims is still in critical condition. >> right now our thoughts and prayers go out to the students and we're hoping for a quick and speedy recovery. you know we're going to send out letters to parents tomorrow on wednesday, send those home with the students to update parents. >> we need to point out that's an attempted murder charge not a murder charge. we just learned that dunmoore was released from the hospital today charged as an adult and he's being held without bond. it's become the show before the show. media day for the super bowl. this time around there's a new controversy and it has nothing to do with deflated footballs. jim handly is live in phoenix with the latest. jim, bring on a new controversy. >> reporter: yeah here we go just what we need right? media day is always a cast of characters with lasting images. the big moment today marshawn lynch walking out of media day

in the arena right behind us. i just talked to bob costas about whether he should be fined. here's how it all went down about a few hours ago. take a look from inside the arena. the seattle running back entered the arena in shades to cheers. he took to a podium with his name on it but he did not stay long. >> hey, i'm just sere so i won't get fined. i'm here so i won't get fined. >> reporter: i'm here so i won't be fined. >> i'm only here so i won't be fined and then he left. >> reporter: then he left. >> i have a feeling that may not be enough to avoid the fine. i'm just guessing. i'm not roger goodell or marshawn lynch. i'm just guessing that's not going to work. >> reporter: now, in november of this season lynch was fined $100,000 for violating media policy. coming up later in sports carol will have more on where it all goes from here. we will hear a bit more from lynch too. now to the spectacle of what is

known as media day in phoenix. oh yeah. you got the six-pack. >> usually it's the beard. this year it's the muscles. >> reporter: give me your pose. >> there's a few classics. you can go with the hands on the hip. >> reporter: all right. >> you can go with the -- i like the crossed arms. but if we're teaming up we'reback-to-back. >> reporter: back-to-back. this works. >> all the angles of the media day. >> reporter: oh. >> how many cameras you have? >> reporter: two. >> i have eight. >> these are two of the most arrogant teams i've ever witnessed. >> reporter: really? >> really. you have a coach who knows every rule but doesn't know you need the ball inflated to pound per square inch. insane. another team with the largest amount of bandwagon fans i've ever witnessed. >> wish i had an opportunity to sit in the booth and then get interviewed instead of fwg one who's doing the interviews. but nonetheless, great

experience great opportunity to see how all of this is going on. >> whooo! >> reporter: now, fans paid 30 bucks for a seat at this arena for media day. sure beats tickets to the super bowl. tonight online some are fetching 6,500 bucks, twice what they were last year. of course this year's seats come with better weather than the weather. back to you for you. >> you can come home now, jim. nothing else happening out there at media day. >> cannot believe that people pay to see media day. jim handly is going to be reporting live from phoenix all week. you can follow his behind-the-scenes experience all week on our nbc washington facebook page. pretty nice out there right now and pretty freezing cold around here. >> just wait till tomorrow. we'll really see cold temperatures tomorrow, throw in a little bit of wind and you have windchills in the single

digits. that's how we'll start the day on our wednesday. temperatures will be in the teens but with the wind that will be gusting upwards of 15 to 20 miles per hour windchills will be a little bit on the cold side. take a look outside. first off, this is up towards boston. look at this guys. this is boston last night. look at the time lapse. this is from one of our co-workers' brothers who lives up there. look at that snow overnight, then yeah had to get out there and actually try to shovel off the back deck. back deck i mighte left. >> i think so. unless there's a dog involved. >> there you go. dog's got to always go outside. temperatures today on the cold side 34 degrees. kind of would have been cool to see here. i would have liked it. windchill around 24 right now. so it's much colder than it has been the past couple days. 17 in gaithersburg. that's the current windchill there. 17 martinsburg, 27 towards culpepper. we are seeing some very chilly numbers already and ipts only going to get colder. not much going on, a few light snow showers coming down from

hagerstown towards shep archdiocesetown, one towards faulkier county really nothing going on. it's really coming down from the backside of our blizzard that has been wreaking havoc towards the boston area. listen to this. nantucket, the little island right out here 18 straight hours with winds gusting over 60 miles per hour. this was a monster storm up toward the northeast. new york philadelphia did not get nearly as much as predicted. that wasn't a bad thing for those cities. future weather showing nothing going on tomorrow. here we are at 5:00 in the afternoon. plenty of sunshine tomorrow but it's not going to help. we're just cold. on thursday our next system starts to move in. you see the cloud cover making its way our way. here comes not only the clouds but the next chance for rain and snow. and i do think we will see that mixture as a little more mild air moves in. look where the snow is from d.c. gaithersburg leesburg manassas could come down at a pretty good clip for a brief period of time but this is not going to pose too many problems. the only problem that i see is look at the timing.

this is 5:00 in the evening. so that is during rush hour as you make your way home even around 8:00 still seeing some snow showers into parts of the region. so once again, not a huge deal but it doesn't take a whole lot, eve an coating could make for some road problems out there. 22 the overnight low in d.c., 19 gaithersburg 19 back towards manassas. with the windchill we'll be down between 5 and 10 degrees in most location locations. that's why the impact forecast. moderate tomorrow morning. windchills in the single digits to the teens throughout day. it will be a chilly afternoon, temperatures below average even with plenty of sunshine. winds gusting 15 to 20 miles per hour. there's that chance of rain and snow on thursday with a high of 39. 36 on friday. 29 for a high on saturday. by the way, windy on friday with winds gusting to 40 miles per hour. we've got a lot of winter-like weather coming up the next couple days. how about super bowl sunday? another storm, a bigger storm. that one could bring rain and

snow to parts of the region. a little more on that coming up around 6:45. >> okay doug. thank you. families fighting for medical marijuana in virginia. why they might not be fighting the uphill battle we thought. a year and a half after that mass shooting at the washington navy yard they're about to reopen the

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the washington navy yard building will reopen. it cost $63 million to renovate building 197. among the new additions a remembrance area to honor the 12 people who were killed that day. staunts and parents will have the opportunity to voice their opinion tonight about the possibility of going to school year round in manassas park. public meetings are being held from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the manassas park community center. tomorrow at the same time they'll be held at manassas park high school. the school system received a $50,000 grant to study a possible switch to year-round classes. school leaders believe it would take some stress off the

students. if it is agreed upon, the change could be made for the next school year. d.c. may no longer be the only city to draw tourists to its trademark smithsonian attraction. the smithsonian institution says it secured $50 million to possibly start building a museum outpost in london. the site would sit near the stadium that hosted the 2012 summer olympics. if the plans get the green light, this would be the first time in the smithsonian's 168-year history that it's had a permanent space outside the u.s. coming up at 6:00 a new lawsuit filed against metro being filed by the family of the woman who died in the smoke-filled tunnel. i'm julie carey in old town alexandria where this liberty gas station couldn't be at a busier spot. but it's been hit by armed robbers twice now in just four months.

now at 6:30 speed cameras costing taxpayer money and not making it back. why revenue is falling tens of millions short of expectations. and the speaker of the house sit do you think here in washington. we'll report what muriel bowser wants from john boehner. and twice in a matter of

months an old town gas station robbed at gunpoint again and it's all on video. first tonight that latest gas station robbery has customers and employees shaken up in old town alexandria. >> it happened less than 24 hours ago on north washington street. bureau chief julie carey is there to tell us what the police are learning from that video. julie? >> reporter: well it was precisely at this time last night that the robber was making his way towards this liberty gas station because of the bad weather. it was unusually quiet out at the pumps. and it took him less than a minute to get inside get the cash, and add a robbery to the 2015 crime statistics. inside this old town gas station an alexandria detective watches surveillance video of the second armed robbery here in less than four months. it was 6:30 monday night, still snowing a bit when the robber took advantage of a rare quiet moment at this liberty station. he approaches the cashier, shows a gun, gets the money, and runs

away down washington street. the first incident back in october was even worse. that armed robber shot the cashier. station owner dennis cane didn't want hi face shown on camera this time. he's shaken by what's happened -- twice. >> makes you wonder about the safety of your employees at any given time since this was much earlier than the last robbery. >> reporter: fortunately the cashier who was shot has recovered physically. >> he's still traumatized and not working as many hours as he used to understandably. >> reporter: no arrest has been made in that case but police say they are looking for two different suspects. longtime customers are spried to hear the news. >> i'm shocked. plus, you know that station is so open to the road. i mean some people have -- i'm very upset. >> it's just sad. these are good people they work hard. to see them have to go through that is -- makes you feel less safe and kind of across the

board. >> reporter: but alexandria's police department statistics show only a slight change in the number of robberies from year to year. around 130 in 2011 and 2012. they dropped in 2013 but then climbed back up again last year. >> reporter: now, the gas station owner tells me that alexandria police promise they will be sending a crime prevention specialist here soon to see what he might be able to do to tighten up security. live in old town alexandria julie carey, news4. back to washington now. wendy rieger at our live desk. >> nbc news has confirmed the president is going to drop his proposal to raise taxes on that so-called 529 college savings plans. this was a controversial part of the president's plan that would ultimately deliver education tax cuts to middle-class families. but we have learn that the it was senate democrats who were among those who pushed the white house to drop this particular aspect. ? a statement, a white house

official says "given it has become such a distraction, we're not going to ask congress to pass that provision." we're monitoring this and you can look for updates on nbcwashington.com. back to you. >> thanks wendy. mayor muriel bowser went to capitol hill today. she sat down and had her first meeting with house speaker john boehner. they talked about funding for metro and control of d.c. issues including the marijuana law which was passed in the district back in november. that law is not popular with some of the lawmakers on capitol hill. >> marijuana is, you know, surprisingly it doesn't come up a lot for the members of the congress but we'll certainly let them know what our position is. i pledge to forge a new path for us on capitol hill and this is part of that. >> bowser also met with maryland congressman elijah cummings and senator tom coffer of delaware. ooh. tonight a lawyer experienced

with metro mishaps is prepared to file another lawsuit against the transit agency this after that deadly incident earlier this month. pat collins has the latest on that from l'enphant plaza. >> reporter: nine people killed in that red line crash back in 2009. attorney patrick regan remitted the families of victims back then. now a new metro death case. patrick regan representing the family of carol glover the woman who died in the yellow line incident on january 12th. he said what happened at the l'enphant plaza station could have been prevented. regan's out of town. i talked to him by phone. >> there was a delay in moving the train, and it was completely preventable. as tragic as this is it was completely preventable. >> reporter: 61-year-old carol glover was a commuter in that smoke-filled yellow line train back on january 12th.

passengers were trapped for more than 30 minutes before rescue workers came to their aid. fellow riders tried to save carol glover's life but it was not to be. >> this was a situation where they should have been able to get those people out of that train long before carol glover suffered any injury never mind passed away. >> reporter: by week's end, attorney patrick regan says he plans to file a multimillion-dollar lawsuit on behalf of the glover family. at l'enphant plaza, pat collins news4. service has been restored on metro's orange lines. trains were single tracked during repairs. officials say everything is fixed now and the service is back on schedule. coming up at 6:00 did d.c. get greedy with speed cameras? one council member says yes.

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academic success in college. and research shows a socioeconomic bias on the s.a.t. most virginians agree with a proposal that would put the state more in line with drug laws in the district and in maryland. about 70% of voters in virginia support legalizing medical marijuana. by that same amount they support criminalizing -- decriminalizing marijuana. it's all part of a new poll by christopher newport university. virginia lawmakers are considering a bill that would legalize medical marijuana. that same poll found about half of voters in virginia approve a general tax increase to avoid budget cuts. if they had to prioritize budget cuts 34% say they would put transportation first on the list to be dropped. overall, voters also strongly supported raising the state's minimum wage from $7.25 to an

hour to $10.10. lawmakers in richmond killed a bill that would raise the minimum wage last week. today the mormon church says it wants to lead a new effort to ease the clash between religious freedom and gay rights. in a rare news conference the church called for a balanced approach today. the mormon church says it will support some housing and job protects for gay and lesbians in exchange for legal protections for believers who voice opposition to same-sex relationships. church leaders say this is not a change in doctrine but rather an attempt to bring people together. more than 2 feet of snow in parts of new england tonight. that blizzard warning not over yet there. we'll have reports from connecticut next. in the district speed cameras are falling tens of millions of dollars short in projected revenue. today the mayor acknowledgeditis because they didn't maintain the

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tonight chairman of the d.c. council says greed is responsible for the city's $38 million budget shortfall. as it turns out the city's speed cameras were not properly maintained around the district. and as "the washington post" first reported fewer tickets were issued. that puts a smile on the face of a lot of motorists but it means less money in the city's coffers. mark segraves explain what is the council plans to do about that. >> it's not that i'm advocating

there be no photo enforcement. i don't think we've done it very well. >> reporter: bill mendelson says the recent problem with the cameras not working shows how den dpent district leaders have become on the money the cameras generate. >> when we become too greedy about how much we'll get in revenue, then when there's the slightest blip we have a budget problem. >> reporter: that problem is now nearly $40 million in part because more drivers are following the law and partially because the district didn't maintain the cameras. >> i think that they were delayed in being installed or turned on when they should have been. i don't know the details of which or really why. >> reporter: not only was the police department not installing and turning on some cameras, they weren't replacing the batteries in some cameras as required. >> you know, i just know they weren't operational at the time we thought they would be. >> reporter: has that been resolved? >> i think it has been.

>> reporter: police say the problem with the batteries have been fixed. "during period of extreme cold and snow last winter there were instances we couldn't change the batteries because they were not accessible or the temperature affected the charge. we have taken additional steps to enhance internal control since last winter alleviating this problem." while the cameras may be fixed, the budget problem still needs to be fixed. >> if we were counting on those dollars, we have to make it up somewhere. >> reporter: in the district, mark segraves, news4. here's a live look at hartford connecticut, tonight where the brunt of that big blizzard is moving in. well that still looks like the police feed camera. the storm there could drop as much as 2 feet of snow in the state by wednesday morning. for a closer look at the conditions matt austin joins us now. he's in brooklyn connecticut. how does it look there right now? >> reporter: hi doreen. the snow is really winding down and now it's all about the digging out. you can see what folks over here have to deal with. hopefully they have a shovel to be able to do that.

if not, we can loan them one. we're actually at a local motel and it's been sold out. so many folks deciding to ride out the storm and hunker down. we've been seeing a lot of plow crews going through and what they've been piling up. huge piles of snow here. it's a good sign we've only had plow crews. the governor of the state of connecticut actually issued a traffic ban. that started last night and continued today for most of the day and it seemed as if most people did follow the travel ban. this is one of the major roads right here through brooklyn and it was basically empty for most of the day and the town selectman in brooklyn says that played a huge part in preventing accidents and many major issues because most people decided to stay home and hunker out the storm. live in brooklyn matt austin. back to you. you. doug has more on our weather. makes you feel grateful for what we're dealing with. >> it does. we only saw about 4 inches in some places. those piles will stand there

till 2017. that's the prediction up there. we didn't see a lot of snow last night but enough 1, 2, 3 inches to shut down schools in many counties across our region. tonight a refreezing of any snow that melted. you can see it right there. something else you notice look at the flag blowing in the wind. winds gusting 25 to 30 miles per hour right now atz we continue to make our way through the evening. those numbers will continue to fall. 34 right now at the airport dropping to about 32 at 7:00. 30 by 9:00. down to about 29 at 11:00. just cold. we'll say it three times for you -- cold cold cold. tomorrow let's make it four. cold again. 29 in rockville, 28 in gaithersburg 31 right now down towards camp springs but it's not about the temperature. it's about that windchill. we'll show you those feel-like numbers in just a minute. storm team 4 radar clear for the most part, a little bit of snow flurry activity around martinsburg but not going to amount to much. it's all still rotating. you can see it hero tating around that big upper-level system that's up toward boston.

they're still getting it. here we were in conbrooklyn a lilt light snow but still getting pounded in boston. feels-like temperature as we move into the overnight hours. how about tomorrow morning? how about 8 degrees in gaithersburg? 9 in leesburg. 11 in manassas. 10 over towards annapolis. a very cold start to our wednesday. a we move through the day, close to about 12:30, many of us out getting some lunch, 21 in gaithersburg 26 in fredericksburg and culpepper. we have to dress warm tomorrow. saturday could be the coldest day. the cold air is here on saturday. the next storm coming up on sunday. but here's the difference. our last couple of storms have come from the north. this one will come along the southern branch of the jet stream. that actually brings in some milder air. with that where is that rain/snow line once again? that's the million dlar question. a stronger storm, something to watch. maybe too warm. the best chance for this is start as snow and go to rain so again we are going to see this coming up on super bowl. if you've got plans for the

super bowl you want to make sure you stay tuned for that one. chance of snow during the evening hours on thursday a little bit of a mix with a high of 39. much colder friday and saturday and we'll be watching that storm on sunday as we make our way through the next couple days. >> thank you, doug. keep us posted. news of an amber alert coming in. back to wendy rieger with details. >> this was just issued in maryland. montgomery county police are searching for a 5-month-old baby girl who was taken last seen at her home in poolesville, maryland and investigators believe she was kidnapped by her father. they say his name is deer denny, so the amber alert is for a black chevy suv with a new jersey license plate d-97 drw. a baby girl kidnapped from poolesville poolesville, maryland. police say they are looking for her father. back to you. >> thanks wendy. carol has sports. what are we looking senate. >> the crazyiness taking over super bowl week. while the redskins filling out their coaching staff with a

super bowl winner. and an a-10 battle tonight in richmond.

big fine. >> yeah. >> it is a big fine and i don't know why they do that.

i don't care what marshawn lynch has to say. i want to see what he does on a football field. >> the nfl wanted him to show up today said they'd fine him half a million dollar if he didn't. >> he never talks though. >> i got to get to this because i know a lot of people want to hear what he had to say. his antics so far this season have cost him $130,000 and that's just in the last few months. that the hour we're still awaiting word from the nfl if what he did today is enough to avoid that $500,000 penalty. he was nice enough to warn us though, in advance. >> if y'all please i'm here so i won't get fined. i'm here so i won't get fined. hey, i'm just here so i won't get fined. i'm here so i won't get fined. i'm here so i won't get fined. >> lynch gave that answer 29 straight times at 4:51 he said time and he walked away. that's nine seconds short of the

mandated five minutes. that could be trouble as well. as usual, the scene for media day crazy as ever. the arena was packed, the costumes were absurd. the day did not go by kwout some deflategate questions but bill belichick is done discussing that subject. >> we're just focused on seattle. that's it. so it's all about seattle, all about us getting ready to play sunday and that's where all of our attention is. >> in regard to what people said or thought about us as a team us as individuals, you know, we focused on believing in one another and believing we can overcome whatever is, you know -- whatever has happened. >> tom brady using deflategate as a rallying cry i guess. college hoop georgetown back in the top 25 the hoyas facing xavier tonight. sound familiar? late december, hoyas cracked into the top 25 then were knocked out by xavier. different outcome planned this time. >> try not to let it happen

again. i mean, you know whatever it consists of, you know defensively that was our first conference game and it was pretty tough for us playing there. so you know we're on the home floor and hopefully we can contain them. >> i think the last game both offensively and defensively we were not attentive. so we just have to be better than we were then. i don't think that had had anything to do with being ranked or not. >> george washington back in action tonight, the colonials winners of 10 of their last 11 games coming off a big home w against duquesne. no easy task for gw though. on the road tonight against the 14th ranked vcu rams. their defense can gave coach night terrors, right, mike lonergan? >> mm-hmm. >> to replicate the pressure they put on you, we we don't have that kind of personnel. bronte webber is special. i'll be glad when he graduates. just thinking of that headband, i have nightmares. the guy's been leading the

nation in steals from day one. he's perfect for their system and has done a great job for them. >> highlights tonight. on the ice, the capitals back in action after a six-day all-star break visiting the blue jackets. caps tried to snap a three-game skid. pucks drops at 7:00 on comcast sportsnet. on csn tonight the wizards visiting the lakers. tipoff from l.a. at 10:30 p.m. hey, new york giants ex-dc heading the d.c. perry fuel. his defense was ranked 29th in the league. he did spend five years with them and did have two top ten defenses. so everyone's excited to see him come and join the burgundy and gold. >> we need neither wahl nor pierce to beat the lakers. >> they don't have kobe. >> breaking news for just a second. an amber alert issued. a father and his 5-month-old

baby missing. police believe she was

on our broadcast tonight, record storms, cities buried under nearly three feet of snow, hurricane force winds knocking out power. tonight the travel nightmare and the flood emergency as the atlantic comes onshore. but what went wrong with the forecast for the other places the forecast that led to a complete shutdown of the nation's largest city. why some meteorologists are issuing public apologies. tale of the tape in this football scandal that will not go away with just days left until the big game. tonight employee doing alone with those footballs for 90 seconds behind closed doors. tonight the nfl has identified what it's calling a person of interest. and making a difference, the lunch rush that is taking off in a hundred cities around the world. "nightly news" begins now.