station overnight to practice for a real outcry of violence i'm andrea roane thank you for joining us. howard has weather. angela has traffic, and we will hear for her in a moment b we will start with howe wart. it's a monster storm. i don't say it lightly. devastating for parts of the north and east. philly will get clobbered. maybe new york. we have cancel late -- cancellations at laguardia. boston has been canceled because of the impending storm. in the district, the snow stopped here, but hanging on in upper county through mount

airy. this is conversational stuff, you see the brandiwine through culver county. a little bit of rest on the coast. on the weather computer, quickly showing some moisture to the east. the key right now, the temperatures almost universally above freezing. even in montgomery, it's a agree or two cold. i'm just expecting a cloudy day with the winds picking up. a few flurries. no big problems today. tonight into friday, we will have more problems. i will tell you all about it. >> hello friends, welcome to thursday. hope you off to a great start. eastbound en route 50, near the bay bridge, looking like the accident has cleared. finally the traffic is moving.

we are delayed to white hull. all is live from foldsville road. aimlessen on the road. making for slippery conditions. a check en route 3, route 4, and route 5 reveals there's no accidents. northbound, no problems delay free to the district. finally before that, the traffic # 5 in virginia. going up from -- 45 in virginia. going up from quanico. metro conducted a massive emergency response exercise shortly after midnight. kristen fisher was there. she's in the news room with more. >> reporter: good mortgage. this is dramatic, smoke machines, high power file

officers officers and several officers from several agencies. one more time the video you're about to see is not real. it's just a video. >> reporter: there's two shooters inside the station. multiple passengers have been injured or killed. metro police are first on the scene followed by the county police. >> oured a goal is to monitor the response, not just our response but the response of the region. >> reporter: in this drill, five passengers are dead and more injured. >> are we secured? >> successful as allly as many as possible. up in of our customers or employees injure the. it was just the first of three

emergency response exercises for metro. up next an ied on a rain inside a tunnely. i can see each exercise is is designed to build on the next one. metro ignored a warning that may have prevented the deadly red line crash. they had been told not to mix manufacturer's parts. the testimony coming from a safety official with a company supplied parts to metro. five days before last up. >> 's crash, they replaced components on the site of the accident using parts for different manufacturers. the president of toyota says his company grow too big too fast to keep up with the safety concerns. >> i'm deeply sorry for any

accident the toyota drivers have exexclearanced. toyoda apologized and promised to change in attitude saying pith would hire new people to help them with their process. prosecutors charged ellen marie yok with hit and run. the first driver who hit ma carroll humphery stocked but then ellen struck him and he was kiln on the way to the hospital. this father says his 13- year-old daughter was not trying to make a political statement by not standing for

the saying in school, he said she didn't stand because she was snick and it wasser if herself day in the school. then she didn't stand on principal. her father says she won't apologize. whatever we get today for weather can only complication things. jessica doyle is live in burtonsville, maryland. >> reporter: you're thinking the same think i'm thinking, and the same thing everybody else is thinking. no more snow. there's good news with nothing going on in burtonsville. as you were saying, people are seeing a variety of the conditions.

maybe seeing rain or snow showers, but the thing people are concerned about this afternoon, when the wind blows in that howard has been talking about. single road in dc. the tree trimmers have been getting to as many as possible. they were trying to clean up the broken branches that were the result of the last storm, and the things that homeowners are more concerned about now, all the precarious tree branches affected bit last tomorrow, they are worried about their roofs, street conditions if we have blockages, and outages. we caught up with some people who gave us to think about. all the saturations and ground and damage they are inspecting more of the damage to come through. >> i always tell me to be

prepare and have emergency gear at home. >> reporter: that's always great advice. the other major concern, we have much soggy conditions, we could see more trees uprooted if we get more rain and dampness in the ground. the road conditions here along 198. you can see the wet pavement. we have been watching cars moving at speeds this morning. a lot of plows are waiting to be released. they will be out in accumulation if we get anything at all. of course the low 40s throughout the washington area. you to be aware of slippery areas. bridges, ramps, other areas like that freezing first. in the mine time, i will throw it back to you. >> jessica, thank you. police track down two suspects in a local child rape

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late model honda accord accord have been jailed jailed jailed with extensive damage. >> police say information provided by the victim of a rape led to the arrest of two people. a painful condition may be avoided. details coming up. why this storm is dealing a knockout blow to the northeast. >> reporter: concern higher for places like philly, but we will have our own problems over the next few days. 9 news now returns. good night. good morning. om. that last year walmart contributed to every eligible full-time and part-time associate's 401(k)... ...whether the associate contributed or not.

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the next few days. this thing bombs out in the atlantic. a lot to tell you this morning. pay attention, wake up. not our blizzard this time. the best chance of snow tonight into tomorrow morning. temperatures above breezing today. -- above freezing today. the winds will pick up this afternoon. the forecast first, mid-30s today. can't rule out a flurry after light snow this morning. tonight into tomorrow morning, snow blowing around. it could be a trace southwest to upwards of a few inches. still windy for the high on saturday. i can't rule out with the forecast of snow. on the eastern shore, rain and high with temperatures at 36. this afternoon, we missed that

one. the winds pick up, trace to 2 inches. mid-20s. early snow tomorrow, very windy. a trace of 2-inches in spot. winds again gusting 45 to 50 miles an hour. the winter weather advisory they dropped it the storm mortgage going into friday. as we look out the radar, you will see why that dropped it. everything moving down showing the light band to the east real limit up north a sliver of moisture across into fed rick county. that snow band is dying out. to the east and southeast, reporting rain on the hour. now barely a mix here into southern maryland. the morning snow just about done. talking temperatures. they never really fell below freezing. a couple of spots like wind chester, you didn't get -- winn

chester you -- -- wincrest her, you didn't get -- winchester, you didn't get the snow. snowing in new york, pennsylvania, up through new england. they will get the upper low into us. meteorologically. the snow miss together north early, but combing back into friday morning as it pinwheels around. as far as accumulations this is what i'm thinking. south and west of town, not much. trace to 2 inches. partsparts of montgomery 2 inches plus. you get to baltimore down to easton, 4 to 8. a foot or more in parts central new jersey. and then in the mountains,

garrett county, southwest pa, you will see heavy knows as well. the winds will be with us through saturday. some of the gusts especially tomorrow, 40 to 50. and then next week breezy into the 50s. can't rule out a storm for tomorrow. the high around 40. >> good morning, hope your off to a great start. hope everybody has had their nice cup of java getting ready for their thursday. notice this crash activity with the two flames. the taillights are stacking up around ed salt. that's growing. a different story here with no issues to report. continues on through springfield. on 66, nice and green. take it outside. we are showing the shaller going eastbound are filling out a bit. overall clear into the beltway.

maryland's 270. good morning to folks out there. we need to clean off this camera. no delays past 121 to the split. here's 91 and the vfw parkway. andre ye, back to -- andrea, back to you. >> thank you. prevnard113113 -- prevnard 13 has been approved. the current drug only cures 7 disasters. -- 7 diseases. people who ate a diet high in hashes and -- in carbs and

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both countries have 7 cold gold. norway, country, and russia all have totals in the teens. tapping out a response for a drill in the middle of the night. coming up, for just a moment. it's time to log on it if you want to go to this year's bowl ride. which local areas will get the most snow today. >> early trouble on the roads, here on duke street, an accident taking up two reins. i will have more on the delays when i return. stay with us.

with damage from early storms littered above, we are watching the skies above to see how much mother nature has in store for us today. i'm andrea roane. thank you for joining us. angie goff has our traffic, but

first the man of the hour with the forecast. >> reporter: angie has bigger problems than i do i think the problems will be later tonight as the winds pick up. tomorrow morning will be a much more difficult and different weather regime from many thorn. showers to the out east and northern net. everything is above freezing. we are not having issues. light coat this morning. generally half an inch or less. the weather computer, the issue from the ohio valley, developing off the virginia, north carolina coast. that will be a monster storm. a serious wind maker. to the north, a serious snow maker. mid-30s to north and west in the mountains. they will get a lot of snow in places like philly and new york from the storm today.

highs increases tonight into tomorrow morning. we will talk about it when we see you at 5:45. good morning, angie. i know we have problems? >> it's because of you. this is what we are seeing. 395 northbound, headed to two the left reins, the taillights stack up before the exit. southbound, you're doing just fine. 66 eastbound. a new route at 7. before that, route 28 at 495. no problems to report. pretty much like this in maryland and virginia. we will call it a wrap inside the district. drive from new york avenue, we are delay free. that's traffic, andrea, back to you. >> thank you, all night the doppler has showed white, pink

and green. a few of you are not seeing anything. we want to check with jessica doyle who is monitoring the conditions des moines burton -- conditions in burtonville, maryland. >> reporter: all we are lucky. ewe luck -- you don't see much right now. right now we don't even have the rain. that will change later this morning as howard has been talking about. the roads, we have not seen any accumulation. that's not expected to be a problem for the morning commute. the rain concerns this morning as angie was talking about, the low temperatures that could potentially cause the icy concern out. there the main concern is the wides. we caught up yesterday with tree came clippers on kringle road in zc. they are takinged a many calls

as possible because we are expecting gusts of 40 to 50 miles an hour potentially. that could bring down more trees and branches. it's very soggy, and the tree trimmers say they will see more downed tries. add them up, and you have potential power outages. we could have blocked roads. we could have damaged roofs. i want to show you behind us this is 198. we have been seeing the cars traveling at speeds this morning. another thing to warn folks about, andrea, this parking lot has enormous puddle. bring your goolashes. >> back to you. >> jessica, thank you. a large tree coming down

across the jefferson memorial, but crews are still working on how to remove it today the national prance toration safety board wrapped up a d an -- up an investigation few but hours ago that finished a practice drill. >> reporter: this the first of three emergency response exercises for metro. up next, the ied on the metro bus and then the ore on a train from the receive their you. the one this morning involving the gunman inside the metro bus heights gas station. the call comes comes comes in, one fire. metro police were the first on the scene. they had high-range guns that were not loaded in this drill, five people were killed and ten

injured. dcu is also on the screen it runs from the moment the shots are fired to the rescue and ends in a debrief. the scope of the drill is huge. 100 people from multiple agencies taking part with the goal of making sure they are ready if it's no longer just not a test. >> the whole purpose and spoke of our exercise, measure our response. not just the metro response but the response of let on. on-- of the region. >> reporter: if today was any indication, it was good. people passing by the metro station this earlier were wondering what was going on, ann degree --andrea, it really

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traffic alert, traffic alert on 67.

an accident on the beltway. angie with the traffic on the way. in the news now, 5:40, doctors with the united nations confirm they are seeing a significant increase of malaria cases in haiti. there's a greater potential with the rainy season getting underway. police in pittsburgh say an argument in a parking space let to a shoot out with the police officers. al parker was tasered during his arrest. he pulled into a space that a neighbor just cleared of snow. no one was injured. the maker of bloombox says it's clean energy. it holds special fuel cells. the chemical reactions produces check call electricity without

burning or combustion. we will preview the the bipartisan effort coming up. hoof. the produce fight in the fruit and vegetable aisle. the winter weather warnings have been dropped but we are not done with the storm yet.

welcome back to 9 news now. president obama will make a last ditch pitch to jump start the healthcare debate. he will go head to head with leaders for both parties during a six-hour televised summit. the latest. >> reporter: republicans are holding out little hope for today's healthcare summit. the gop wants him to pull the plug on his trillion dollars bill and start all over again. >> unless they will do that, i think it's nearly impossible to reach an agreement. >> reporter: there's many that

have been skeptical of the reform efforts. right up until yesterday, he was campaigning for an overall. today he will lead topics on several costs including leading coverage. he wants to show them his plan is the best for the healthcare overall. republicans have been criticized for not bringing enough ideas to the table but they said they have specific solutions now. >> we have six steps that we think will make the current healthcare system work better. >> reporter: analysts say the president may have to compromise to get issues. >> he campaigned on having this path in his first year. it's really a do or die from the white house for the democrats. >> reporter: even without the republican backing, democrats could still push through the healthcare reform on their own.

reconciliation would require only a simple majority, but so far democrats have been reluctant to use the strong- armed tactics. >> remember from the necessary and february -- from the february blizzards, now we have the crops affected. the wholesale prices are twice as high as normal. 5:46. we want to give you an early closing. garrett county schools in maryland are closing three hours early. >> they are looking at the snow in the northwest. they are pick up by the mountains and the moisture come out and the i did flies. a least a foot over the next

day and a half from the intense tomorrow that will develop from the upslope itself. let's talk about the storm it appears it will be a humongous storm. 100 to 200 miles no. problem for the morning commute other than the wet streets out. there snow will return tonight into friday morning, anywhere from a chance to as much as 4 inches. those 4-inch totals, extreme north and east areas of the viewing area. up into maybe carroll county and parts of the eastern shore to chestertown or perhaps easton and areas north. strong winds through saturday. gusts up to 50 miles an hour. the next three days, a flurry with winds increasing this afternoon. light snow, late tonight into early friday, the temperatures in the mid-40s tomorrow and mid- 40 on saturday. the winds will take time to pull out of here. the bus stop forecast, isolated

flurries, not breezy yet. temperatures in the low to mid- 30s. sunrise at 6:36. this afternoon, cloudy and windy with highs in the mid- 40s. the winds could gust into the 40s by later today. a traps to two inches. mid-20s for lows. gusting to 30. and again a trace to 2 inches near 35 for the high northwest at 20 to 40. no advisories for us. i don't even know why the advisory is out there for the north gwinnett. it's out there, but i don't know if it's necessary. a winter storm watch for today and friday through northern baltimore up through north eastern maryland. the radar, we had a bit of moisture here, snowing across pennsylvania, new york, and the energy. you see it here.

it's coming back in. that's will help the coastal develop. looking live with hd, it's all live here. we go to the east. we are watching a rain-snow mix. reporting rain, but go down to north beach, possibly a few effects south of that. south of mechanicsville. just a little snow and wet rain. no big deal. temperaturewise readings above freezing most everywhere. orange, 312. 312 -- 31. we are sitting at 35. kansas city, 9, police 4. that cold air feeding into the storm. storm is really going to develop hire. parts of the northeast and the pennsylvania area for example are going to get pasted. i want to show you the accumulation map before we get to the seven-day the snow will come back from pennsylvania. this is hurting me here.

we have the 2-4 hire. the heavy stuff well to the north and east. here's the seven-day forecast. the temperatures in the mid-30s tomorrow. watch out tonight, early tomorrow for the blowing and drifting of the snow, there's a chance of snow again on wednesday. angie. the thing to worry about right now, the rain. early problems early on. in virginia, 395 past duke street. taking away two left lanes. these taillights stacked up starting around the mixing bowl. it will only clear the scene. back towards 95. seek speaking of the interstate. the main congestion lights, extra 5 minutes for that. 66. traffic filling out from route 50 and 12723.

we still have the crash activity. maryland high, 270. the camera wet from the rain. the things overall moving well from germantown to the split. finally, no complaints on ma, the highway, and grange avenue. just the typical volume we see until the 6:00 hour. two actresses showing up for their dc screening of their european film. we are exploring some of the unusual dishes you can find in this area. in the examiner in a shrinking poll of medical examiner's. dcb's financial advise estimates that it will be just at $38 million. these stories and more are in today's examiner.

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adventurous pal let. serving pig ears and duck tongue. will you try this with me? it's the duck tongue. okay, ready? >> yeah. >> reporter: it tastes actually pretty good. the consistency is interesting to me it does actually taste like chicken to be honest. >> yeah. >> reporter: chick within cartilage. another popular dish, stinky tofu. it's stinky when it's raw, but cooked, it's not too bad. >> reporter: we came down to find out what was hopping. grasshopper tacos. will you try one fors? >> absolutely. >> reporter: tasty? >> yeah. guacamole already on it.

probably could use a little salsa but very good. >> reporter: we end with brain on our mind on our plate. >> they need to keep an open mind and try different things. >> reporter: passengers at customs recently stopped someone from bringing in cooked monkey and these rodents for dinner. back to the brain. >> not my favorite thing, but you can't say something is good until you try it. >> all right, you have had the whiching -- the chocolate covered grasshopper? >> no a cricket. the chocolate was good but the other parts. >> okay, let's go to