tonight. topper is in the weather center with more details and we've been here a couple days. maybe we should just stay here in the storm alert mode. >> be careful what you wish or say because it might happen. we are looking at a very large storm, a a classic coastal storm, you will. let's start with the computer and give you sort of the timetable, if you will. here's the deal. weekend storm looks big. time frame friday afternoon through saturday, maybe through most of saturday quite frankly. not a pure snow for everyone, so different than the december storm. we're lacking some arctic air. we may see rain in southern arizona and up in annapolis for a while especially friday night and it goes back to snow with surface temperatures around freezing and temperatures upstairs just below freezing and the track is still not set. when we get that track set, then we'll talk about amounts and we'll talk about amounts tomorrow, but there's still some uncertainty. now that said, winter storm watch covers pretty much the entire metro area, goes into

effect friday afternoon and continues through saturday. where's the storm now? there it is gathering strength already in texas and the western gulf of mexico. it will pull out of the western gulf of mexico and move off the carolina coast which if you've lived here any amount of time know that is about perfect. we'll come back and break down the storm farther and talk about slick spots tonight, not done with yesterday's storm yet. back to you. >> we'll see if some of those wet spots are impacting the evening rush. >> we have an accident blocking travel lanes on inner loop approaching the bw parkway. we have some lanes closed in that area and see some delays approaching the accident. well, let's head outside to 270 where we're seeing delays building up right now, montgomery village area very light approaching germantown. after that drivers pick the pace towards clarkbsurg. moving onto 66, not seeing any traffic, nor accidents on this route. so far so good crossing my fingers for folks on 66 moving

well to route 123. finally we'll go to metro vre mark one running on time. good news there. >> thanks, patranya. we've got some new information tonight about toyota. it was another day of confusion and mixed messages for toyota drives caught up in the massive safety recall -- drivers caught up in the massive safety recall. during a hearing in the federal budget transportation secretary ray lahood today said if you own a toyota affected by the recall you should stop driving it. >> my advice is if anybody owns up with these vehicles, stop driving it. -- owns one of these vehicles, stop driving it. take it to a toyota dealer because they believe they have the fix for it. >> that comment added fuel to the fire. then afterwards while talking to reporters lahood reversed course. >> what i said in there was obviously a misstatement. what i meant to say, what i thought i said was if you own one of these cars or if you're in doubt, take it to the dealer and they're going to fix it. >> toyota thanked lahood for

the clarification and the part needed to fix the sticky throttle has already started to arrive at dealerships. our scott broom spent the day with customers at one dealership trying to get their toyotas fixed and joins us live via skype. >> reporter: well, you talk about those parts being out. they are here at darr cars toyota in silver spring and guess what? the fixes started today just about three hours ago, the first customer left with a fixed recalled vehicle. so the hype is over. the recall fixes are underway. >> today is the day. >> reporter: tammy darvish a car dealer turned crisis manager. in the shops out back technicians bee began removing the potentially -- bee began removing the potentially sticky gas pedals affected by the recall. >> it's not that difficult. we do have to put the price on the repair, though.

>> our parts arrived in the middle of the night. we're in the process of updating our website. >> within the next hour we'll open up the floodgates for our customers to schedule appointments any time seven days a week 24 hours a day that best suits their schedule. >> reporter: the first customer to get the fix, francisco careas who had come in for an oil change and left as a minor celebrity. >> i come in for them to change the oil and they say well, the car has problems. they say fixed already. that's good. >> we're telling our customers plan on an hour by the time we check the vehicle in. we want to put it in the shop and complete the recall repair for a0a the sticky pedal and we want to also do a complete safety inspection and return the vehicle back to the customer and if for peace of mind, if nothing else, it's got to be worth that one hour. >> reporter: okay. so it's all happening right now at darr cars toyota. one very anxious corolla owner had her car towed in here

today. >> that was our scott broom reporting. we learned today that toyota has received more than 100 complaints about brake problems with its popular prius hybrid model. the prius is not included in the recent recall of millions of toyotas because of sticking gas pedals. we've got an update on that double murder investigation in dale city. prince william county police made an arrest in the murders of a dale city mother and child whose bodies were found stabbed to death in their home. that's where we find our peggy fox with the latest. >> reporter: lesli, police are here guarding the home because they're still inside collecting evidence. they do not believe this was a random crime. they say that the woman they've charged is the wife of the boy's father. here's what she looks like. 47-year-old natalia wilson. she's a russian citizen. she's charged with two counts of murder in the stabbing deaths of 41-year-old slavka naydenova and her 8-year-old son paul wilson.

she's married to paul's dad lester wilson. the couple lived in an apartment complex on columbia pike in arlington. the victim had been -- >> i think it's horrible. it's really scary to think that that could happen and just a terrible story. >> late last night the detectives arrested natalia wilson charging her with two counts of murder and the murder death with stabbing. >> reporter: the victim had been a mail order bride. officials say she had ties to the bulgarian mafia but police say none of that had to do with the murders they say. that is purely domestic. now police want to find whoever may have driven natalia wilson to this home monday night. they're looking for whoever did that to contact them with the information. i'm peggy fox reporting live in dale city. back to you. house lawmakers grilled the nation's intelligence director on capitol hill today. it comes after director dennis

blair warned senators saying al qaeda is all but certain to try another attack on u.s. soil. >> what is the likelihood of another terrorist attempted attack on the u.s. homeland in the next three to six months, high or low? director blair? >> an attempted attack the priority is certain i would say. >> intelligence officials believe al qaeda is deploying its agents inside the united states ready to launch new  attacks from within our borders. home alone three small unattended children stopped breathing after a fire breaks out in their apartment. we'll tell you what happened during some tense moments early today. plus a final good-bye to one of the national zoo's most famous residents. hey hi

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toys r us taking your used car seats, bassinets, strollers and for your trek the store will give you a 25% discount toward new baby products. this runs through february 20th and even if you don't trade in your old stuff it's a good idea to check what you do have for wear and tear. fans snapped photos and bid a final farewell to 4-year-old tai shan at the national zoo. the panda will leave d.c. for china tomorrow, the native land for might not scene pandas and told visitors shared heartfelt good-byes -- and today visitors shared heartfelt good-byes. >> it's both sad but we understand and have been following him so long but it's so important for the future of the pandas and for making sure that the genetics are, you know, continued to grow. >> tai shan was the first successful panda birth at the national zoo and he was on loan from the chinese government. next on 9 news now war over wal-mart, the retail giant

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officials say three children were left home alone when a fire broke out in their southeast apartment. security camera video shows smoke filling the hallway at 1920 naylor road. a neighbor tried to get into the apartment where a 5-year- old boy and his two young sisters were but it took teamwork from d.c. firefighters to get to the kids who had stopped breathing. >> went down the hall lau to the right, did our search where we had two children on the bed. the middle one i found at the bottom of my feet. >> by the time all three got to children's hospital they were

breathing but in critical condition. investigators say a burner had been left on the gas stove and that is what started the fire. a judge will soon decide whether the legal fight continues over wal-mart's plans to build a super center near a civil war battlefield. the focus of this fight is in orange county, virginia, near the wilderness battlefield and today the judge listened to more than three hours of arguments. it's all about a lawsuit filed by a historic preservation groupful several of them and county residents -- group, several of them and county residents over plans to build a store less than a mile from the battlefield. the wilderness is where general ulysses s. grant and robert e. lee first met in battle 145 years ago. baltimore mayor sheila dixon steps down tomorrow. today she gave a farewell address at a city government meeting. dixon said it's been a privilege to serve as mayor but is now starting a new chapter in her life. tomorrow she will be sentenced for embezzling gift cards intended for needy families.

under a plea deal she'll serve probation, community service and donate $45,000 to charity. >> here's a question. how much more snow can you take? we are running a positive on wusa9.com. about 1/3 can't get enough snow, 42% have had it and more than 1/4 are looking to escape some place warm. that would be nice. bruce leshan is live in bethesda and so the question, bruce, is too much or not enough? that is not a question about your shovel. that's about you. >> reporter: that's about me and i've had it, lesli. i've definitely had it but what's been amazing to me is how many people have not had it, how many people really recall just loving this. we hit the sledding hill in bees that da here at stone ridge school and -- in bethesda here at stone ridge school and i couldn't find a single kid who didn't say bring it on. let's have this storm friday and have some more storms next week. we're loving it and a whole lot of parents kind of felt the same way which was also a bit surprising to me. here's somebody else who says

bring it on, modern body shop up in kensington. this nasty, nasty winter has been very, very good for business there. they had four cars in that had things like broken axles from sliding on the snow and slipping into the curb, but if you're -- and i heard you -- you'd like to escape someplace warm, lesli, here's an idea. the americas cup starts in sunny spain next week and you can get out before friday's storm. >> you can go to valencia, spend a few days, see the race and my thought would be fly to the canaries, you know, the carnival for mardi gras in the canaries. that would be a lot of fun, hook back through madrid, spend a few days there, get a little culture, see the museum and fly home. >> reporter: there are still tickets and hotel rooms available right now in valencia. it's about 58 degrees in the canary islands, 68 degrees.

doesn't that sound fabulous? >> tell you what. i just don't think that that's going to go over well with the boss. i'm just not going to be able to be here this weekend because i need to leave friday to go to the canary islands. nice try. thanks. >> reporter: we all got to work saturday. >> i know. we'll be here. that's all right. that's what we do. and this is what you love. >> well, bruce's story kind of points out there's more snow geese out there than you think, you know. some of us more than others, but it's going to be a very big storm. >> have you found your happy place? >> well, it's winter. remember our snowfall, bruce talked about this yesterday, our snowfall this season so far is more than the last three seasons combined. >> yeah. >> we haven't had much of a winter since 2002, 2003, but we may be making up for it this time. here's your forecast first now. the next three days i would do your errands tomorrow. get the videos for the kids, perhaps get some beverages, brett. >> i'm all for it. >> the snow breaks out friday.

good news then, temperatures probably above freezing. it will take a while to accumulate, heavy snow friday night into saturday, big storm taking shape, only about 32 saturday. weekend storm looks big, time frame friday afternoon through saturday. get your errands done tomorrow, thursday. heavy snow is possible friday night into early saturday morning and travel can be very difficult by midnight on saturday. tonight just a few sprinkles. otherwise clearing and cold, a couple slick spots now after midnight. if it looks wet, it may actually be ice, low temps in the 20s. winds northwesterly at five to 10. we'll check out our doppler radar -- always check out our our doppler radar at wusa9.com. 38 in chantilly, 38 dumfries, 38 chesapeake beach, 38 in remington, 38 for our friends in shenandoah. tomorrow morning mostly sunny, cold start, winds northwesterly 10 to 15. by afternoon, though, partly

sunny and seasonable, a very nice day to get stuff down and some more melting tomorrow, too with highs in the low 40s and winds won't be a factor, northwesterly at 10. so it's going to feel quite nice. things you need tomorrow and really for the foreseeable future, sunglasses, windshield fluid. clean your headlights and taillights. when you get a big film of salt on your headlights, they don't cast any lights. we'll see refreezing again thursday night if everything melts thursday and go below freezing thursday night. satellite picture and radar combined, here's where the storm is taking shape now in the southern plains and really the energy eventually will end up in the western gulf of mexico. that's where our big storms come from. it's going to move from the western gulf of mexico across the southeast. one primary low pressure may kind of die out in the tennessee valley and then secondary development occurs off the north carolina coast and that becomes the big bear, so to speak, and brings a tremendous amount of moisture and also wraps around cold air.

ironically enough we don't have the cold air with this storm that we did in december before winter technically began. right now we have a few clouds and sprinkles to the north. i think clouds will thin tonight and temperatures will end up back into the 20s. next seven days 42 tomorrow, nice day, snow breaking out friday afternoon. it will break out much earlier south and west of town down toward culpeper and stanton and work its way northeastward. heavy snow possible friday night into saturday. only around freezing on saturday, 32 on sunday and monday, but we're dry. another little storm comes at us tuesday with highs only in the upper 20s. we'll have plenty of arctic air by then and then mid-20s wednesday. clouds hang tough. mountain snow showers will continue and again the tricky thing about this in terms of amounts, we'll have a little rain mix in, probably a little sleet mixed in especially to districts south and east and that's going to affect your accumulations, but it looks like a big storm. >> bruce was talking about getting away to sunny places.

the super bowl is in miami, right? >> i was just thinking i need to get down there and do a feature story on something. >> you leaving friday, leaving tomorrow? >> i don't know. there's got to be something local down there. we're talking about hockey, though, tonight. he's gone from outcast to superstar in just a matter of months. the resurgence of jose theodore leading the caps to 11 straight wins. plus chris cooley is at the super bowl and he's an ace reporter. see how the 4-7 does coming up.

it's time for 9 sports with brett haber, the best sports in town. >> if you are a goalie you better have a short memory. eight months ago jose theodore was an outcast benched in favor of semyon varlamov. not only does he have his job back, he is one of the reasons the caps have won 11 in a row.

he stopped 41 of 42 shots, many of them just insane as the 33- year-old won his eighth straight game and reminded us how he played eight years ago when he was mvp of the league. now he has regained the can't starting job and could be the hottest -- the caps starting job and could be the hottest goalie. >> i think we play with confidence right now. >> it's fun to be part of franchise history. >> jose was tremendous, tremendous. he was in a complete zone and i hope it stays because i got to believe he's playing thursday. >> the reason for that is the caps only other healthy goalie isn't healthy anymore. backup michael new wirth out indefinitely out with an upper body injury. what georgetown doesn't have tonight is the definition of a trap game with no. 2 villanova looming on saturday. tonight the hoyas have to deal with a game everybody in the world expects them to win and that is when bad things usually happen. the hoyas hosting south florida at verizon center tonight.

the bulls 4-5 in the big east and have never beaten the blue and gray in washington. on the other hand, south florida did upset no. 17 pitt this past sunday, so georgetown should not be dreaming of nova just yet. meanwhile wizards in new york tonight meet the knicks for the second time in five days. they beat them on saturday. caron butler will sit tonight. he's got a sore left knee. reports tonight that tiger is on the way back to golf. the melbourne herald sun in australia reports tonight woods will play for the first time since his scandal. the accenture will match play two weeks from now in scottsdale, the pga tour not confirmed. over at maryland today time for the football program to restock the fridge, you don't mind the pun. terps adding 19 new players on this national signing day. four of those 19 rated as four star prospects by rivals.com including quarterback tyler smith from eastern pennsylvania, overall

maryland's recruiting class ranked 37th in the nation, seventh in the acc, but fridge believes he's got the guys to win. >> we've been in there for the last couple days just talking personnel and i know the mad scientist over this will figure out a way to get the guys that can play on the field and so we just feel like they are just another component. if they come out and play like we think they can. >> but nowhere was the ink flying on the signing day more than at dematha, the stags sending 21 senior athletes to full ride scholarships today including 6' 5 306-pound ari colange to the defending national champions at alabama, the 15th rated guard in the nation. yesterday we showed you the chaos of super bowl media day and the 2,000 reporters tripping over themselves to interview those 106 football players. you'll never guess who one of those 2,000 reporters was. yes, it was redskins tight end chris cooley who took a

temporary gig as a reporter for the ocnn, the ochocinco news network operated by bengals wide receiver and noted showman chad ochocinco and you be the judge if the 4-7 could be the next sara walsh or something. >> chris cooley, super bowl media day, ocnn. >> chris cooley, ochocinco network. first of all, your offense centers quite a bit around the tight end. how does dallas spark help out your game? >> big time. he's always there for me. >> i don't know. i thought it was a reasonable question. he looks very debonair kind of leaning. >> what's that super bowl lean he had going on? >> he's a stylish cat i think. if you get me a day off, can he have my job. >> we're running out of time -- he can have my job. >> we're running out of time. >> winter storm watch affects friday and saturday evening. you're fine tonight and tomorrow. >> we'll see